{"id":6360,"date":"2017-12-04T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=89756"},"modified":"2017-12-04T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:36:29","slug":"cpne-wants-press-act-repealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/cpne-wants-press-act-repealed\/","title":{"rendered":"CPNE wants press act repealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has said that the Press Publication and Book Registration Act 2013 was tantamount to imposing a ban on a free press.<\/p>\n
In a resolution passed in a meeting on Thursday \u2014 chaired by CPNE Vice President and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Committee chairman Tahir Farooq \u2014 the council demanded that the black law should be withdrawn immediately since no such law has been implemented in any other province. The
\nmeeting was.<\/p>\n
Under the Constitution, the resolution said, the provincial government cannot promulgate a law while there is already a federal law present.<\/p>\n