ISLAMABAD: Federal Housing Minister Akram Khan Durrani said on Thursday that plots would be allotted to all those journalists and media workers who had submitted applications in response to the prime minister’s scheme.

He said journalists and media workers of all the four provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan would be provided plots under the scheme.

Mr Durrani made the announcement at the closing ceremony of a convention organised by the All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (Apnec).

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2017

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