Cabinet approves plan to form `media courts´
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday approved a plan to form ``media courts´´ for the first time in the country, apparently to seek speedy disposal of media-related cases within a particular time limit of 90 days. The plan was approved by the federal cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan at the PM Office. Briefing the media about the cabinet meeting, Special Assistant to the PM on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said what she called ``media tribunals´´ would be formed after passage of a bill by the parliament while conceding that the government had not taken all stakeholders - including media persons, owners of media houses and media bodies - into confidence on this...