Times of Pakistan addresses future concerns about rising media blackouts in the country

Jhelum: “Public concerns regarding more and more social blackouts have raised suspicion about the inadequacies of news travelling to the international media platforms and little to no help being provided by authorities to handle these situations” were the opening remarks of Hassan Mustafa, the Editor-in-Chief at Times of Pakistan, during an awareness event hosted in Jhelum headquarters.

Times of Pakistan, a news agency operated by Times of Pakistan (Private) Limited, commenced its news reporting services in 2002. With a remarkable following across all its social media platforms, it stands as one of the largest digital media outlets in the country.

He added, “Physical and digital blockades led millions of Pakistani citizens into chaos and prone to dangerous situations during the last year floods and many more similar events before that” pointing to the atrocious events of the 2022 floods that wrecked the majority of the country along with serious damages on the country’s economy. “One way to ensure the protection of innocent Pakistani citizens and representatives of international organizations providing health services in the country is to lay grounds for independent journalism and representing the unfortunate so they may not be taken advantage of.”

With the rise of independent journalism in the media industry in Pakistan, the Times of Pakistan has been among the oldest established and registered news agencies working for over two decades. The agency claims to have nurtured a large amount of social confidence to openly speak about the issues of lawlessness and illiteracy in the country and the need to protect the country’s struggling international image.

“People need to be educated about the uses of social media and journalism to effectively deflect the disastrous outcomes of lawlessness inflicted upon the common people by large and small criminal organizations, evidently found in disaster-struck remote areas where the voice of reason is unheard” were the remarks from Hamza Ishaq, the Times of Pakistan’s spokesperson.

He added “By opening the channels of safe journalism, travel opportunities can be enhanced for a much wider international audience struggling to decide whether or not to visit the country. Aggressive initiatives by changing governments have led this area of opportunities for stabilizing the country’s economy into a dishevelled condition with more reparations required than ever before.”

“Change and initiative can be rewarded for the effective promotion of correct social attitudes towards keeping surveillance on events surrounding everyday topics. People require a sense of achievement for bringing change and doing the right things” were the concluding remarks by the agency’s spokesperson.

However, it was unclear how this proposed reward system may be implemented. Yet the company representatives made sure that these proposed plans and the company’s ongoing plan of action will stay on course and that unequivocal invitations will be sent to everyone to join the cause for an evolving media outlook in Pakistan. Additionally, they mentioned that an awareness campaign will be initiated through the newspaper that the Times of Pakistan publishes in two major cities, Jhelum and Multan. The private event had some interesting ideas and proposed a plan for any unforeseen conditions that might risk the economy or public lives through the removal of illiteracy about journalism and lawlessness problems that continue to be a part of the problem.

The proposal came after this year’s rising concerns about the repetition of 2022 floods that put major areas of Pakistan under surveillance blindspots due to which thousands of people were left distressed and desperate for aid.