Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi has said that in the age of propaganda, narratives and counter narratives, the importance of the job of the officers of Information group had increased manifold.
\nDelivering his keynote address at \u201cGraduation Ceremony of Training Programmes Domain Specific 38th MCMC and 40th Specialised Training Programme\u201d, here the other day, he said the responsibility of officers of this group was countering propaganda of inimical forces and promote and project Pakistan\u2019s soft and positive image. He said unlike many other groups of civil service, the information group officers had to work hard to improve their skills by continuous study. \u201cYou have to love your job to improve your knowledge. You have to learn not only about media, media laws but politics, history, geography, art, culture, music and languages of the country,\u201d he added. He said that the focus of the officers of the information group should be to adopt to rapidly changing media landscape. The minister said that when internet and social media were introduced, it was thought that new window of knowledge had been opened and the dependency of mainstream media would end.
\nBut unfortunately, now a new \u201cpolitical economy\u201d has been invented at the social media and affluent persons could hire services of a few dozen people to spread fake news and create bogus trends.
\nHe urged the officers to learn languages of Pakistan which had diverse culture as conveying a message to someone in his own language was always easy.
\nHe said that in this age of advanced technology, there was no scope of laxity as any delay in dissimenting truth would give others to fill the vacuum with fake news and propaganda.
\nSpeaking on the occasion, Secretary Information and Broadcasting Shahera Shahid said that efforts were afoot for restructuring of the information group as per requirements of the modern times. She opined that restructuring of the information group was imperative to meet the challenges of modern times. Shahera Shahid urged the officers and probationers of the group to work hard to improve the standing of their group.
\nExecutive Director General of Information Service Academy Dr Tariq Mehmood in his welcome address, threw the light on the aims and objectives of the two courses.
\nMinister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi distributed the certificates among the participants of the two courses.
\nSenior officers from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting including Additional Secretary Information and Broadcasting Syed Mubashar Tauqir Shah and MD Associated Press of Pakistan were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi has said that in the age of propaganda, narratives and counter narratives, the importance of the job of the officers of Information group had increased manifold. Delivering his keynote address at \u201cGraduation Ceremony of Training Programmes Domain Specific 38th MCMC and 40th Specialised Training Programme\u201d, here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n