A dialogue was organized on combating fake news under the chairmanship of Prime Minister's Youth Program Chairman Rana Mashhood.
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The government is making serious efforts to eliminate fake news, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is on a roadmap to make Pakistan economically stable; Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan's speech
Sunday 8 December 2024
Lahore (News International/ Pakistan News - 08 December 2024) A dialogue was organized in Lahore under the chairmanship of Chairman Prime Minister Youth Program Rana Mashhood regarding the elimination of fake news. Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan said that the government is making serious efforts to eliminate fake news. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif is on a roadmap to make Pakistan economically stable. Saudi Arabia is going to invest one hundred billion dollars in the country, while with the launch of CPEC-2, we will soon achieve economic independence.
According to the details, how to deal with fake news, a major challenge facing the country? A dialogue was organized on this at a private club in Lahore with a group of senior journalists, editors, analysts, anchors, and reporters of the country. The Chairman Prime Minister Youth Program was the special guest of the dialogue on the elimination and prevention of fake news. He took the federal government, especially Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, into confidence regarding the success on the diplomatic front.
Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan told the participants that CPEC-2 with China is going to be formally launched soon, there is a strong possibility of an investment of one hundred billion dollars from Saudi Arabia coming to Pakistan, fake news is also becoming a big problem among the challenges faced by the government, fake news and social media trolling are defaming Pakistan. He said that strict action has now been initiated to eliminate misleading fake news, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will soon meet senior journalists in this regard, he will present the discussions and suggestions made in this dialogue to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. It has been reported that several senior journalists including Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami, Hafeezullah Niazi, Kamran Shahid, Mansoor Ali Khan, Nasrullah Malik, Iftikhar Ahmed, Pervez Bashir, Hibban Akram, Rizwan Razi, Imran Shafqat, Muzammil Suhrawardy and Najam Wali Khan participated in the dialogue. Senior journalists presented suggestions regarding the prevention of fake news and stressed the need to implement strict punishments for those spreading fake news. Senior journalists presented various opinions to the government for serious efforts to prevent fake news, expressing concern over the mushrooming spread of digital media in the current situation. The participants stressed the need to hold more such sessions and said that the Ministry of Information and Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz should increase contacts with intellectuals and journalistic circles to eliminate fake news so that the government's position can be better conveyed to the public and a national narrative can be created together to eliminate fake news. The participants said that for the past two years, false and fabricated news has been circulating in the country due to the lenience given to a political party and its social media activists like a camel without a camel. A clear example of this is the Islamabad protest and the false incidents of rape of female students in a college in Lahore, and the public reaction to it. If this series is not crushed through mutual communication and mutual efforts, dialogue and narrative creation, then its very terrible consequences will be revealed in the country in the coming years.
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