{"id":46069,"date":"2024-08-24T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=46069"},"modified":"2024-08-24T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:44:20","slug":"information-ministry-appoints-pml-n-favorite-anchors-in-ptv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/information-ministry-appoints-pml-n-favorite-anchors-in-ptv\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Ministry appoints PML-N favorite anchors in PTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Another case of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/another-corruption-tale-from-ptv-employees-demand-inquiry\/\">nepotism<\/a> was exposed in Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), a state-run national television, as the PMLN-led government hired party-biased anchorpersons in PTV News.<\/p>\n<p>According to PTV sources, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar approved Beenish Saleem, considered to be PML-N&#8217;s favorite for an 8&#8217;o clock primetime program.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, sources privy to the development told <em>ABN News\/Daily Ausaf<\/em> that a Lahore-based journo Rizwan Rizvi alias Razi Dada, a journalist close to CM Punjab Maryam Nawaz, has also been given a talk show on PTV News. Former <em>Geo News<\/em> reporter Amin Hafeez will also be a part of Rizwan Rizvi&#8217;s program.<\/p>\n<p>Sources within PTV told <em>ABN News<\/em> that Information Minister Atta Tarr has decided to close more than 10 programs on PTV after self-examination and announced some important changes. Claiming it as a revolutionary measure, the two new programs were given to Beenish Saleem and Rizwan Rizvi, who are considered close to the the ruling party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Another case of nepotism was exposed in Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), a state-run national television, as the PMLN-led government hired party-biased anchorpersons in PTV News. According to PTV sources, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar approved Beenish Saleem, considered to be PML-N&#8217;s favorite for an 8&#8217;o clock primetime program. Moreover, sources privy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":46075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2090,19691,13205],"class_list":["post-46069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ptv","tag-atta-tarar","tag-pakistan-television-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46078,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46069\/revisions\/46078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}