KARACHI, Dec 15: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will take all-out measures to rehabilitate journalists affected by the Oct 8 earthquake. This was decided at CPNE’s executive council meeting held in Karachi with Arif Nizami in the chair.

The meeting praised the role of the print media in keeping people informed about the devastation caused by the country’s worst natural calamity and decided to send a CPNE delegation to Kashmir to assess people’s problems there and take measures for their rehabilitation.

It expressed sorrow over the demise of journalists in the quake and resolved that the CPNE would extend necessary help to editors and newsmen left homeless by the tragedy.

The meeting took exception to the closure of presses of daily Islam and daily Jasarat in Sindh as well as to incidents of harassment of newspapers and hawkers.

It reiterated its stand that the CPNE condemned all illegal actions against freedom of the press.

The executive council formed a two-member committee comprising CPNE’s secretary-general Mohammad Aslam Qazi and APNS’s secretary-general Qazi Asad Abid which will take up the matter with the authorities and get the matter resolved.