KARACHI, Sept 21: The standing committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will meet at a hotel in Lahore at 7.30pm on Sept 28 (Saturday) to consider the situation arising out of the adoption of press and defamation laws by the federal cabinet.

On a request of the CPNE, the laws have been withheld from promulgation pending negotiations on the draft legislations approved by the cabinet. The CPNE and the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have objected to certain amendments to the laws.

The meeting will also consider what line of action the editors’ body is to take in the expected new round of negotiations with the government on the subject of the press laws, including the law on freedom of information.