LAHORE :Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has on Sunday said that the freedom of the media is hard earned and the media has earned it itself through sacrifices. He said that the role of media in theevolution of Pakistani society is plausible.
Addressing the closing ceremony of Media Training Workshop in Lahore, CM Shahbaz said that he learns a lot of things from media. “Sometimes, when agencies’ reports aren’t reliable, I rely upon the media reports”, he said.
However, he said that there was another side of the media as well.
Shahbaz Sharif assured on this occasion that local body elections will also be held and powers will be shifted to the lower levels of the society only through the local body elections. He said that targets would never be achieved without strict accountability. NNI