KARACHI: The Sindh government would provide plots to families of those journalists who lost their lives during performance of their duties in any part of the country.

This assurance was given by PPP MPA Owais Muzaffar and former MNA Abdul Qadir Patel at the launching ceremony of a health insurance scheme for journalists.

The programme, organised by the Karachi Union of Journalists, was also attended by IFJ Asia Pacific delegates Jane Worthington from Australia and Ujjal Acharya from Nepal.

A memorandum of understanding was signed with the health insurance company.

The scheme will initially cover 611 journalists but the number will be raised to 1,700 on receipt of data about more journalists, said Wajid Raza Isfahani and KUJ president G M Jamali.