Anisa urges electronic channels to employ newly trained cameramen
By Bushra Rafique

ISLAMABAD—State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anseea Zeb on Monday urged electronic channels to employee in their organizations newly trained cameramen who were imparted preliminary skills by Aljazeera television as part of its media rehabilitation program for journalists from quake affected areas.
While speaking as chief guest on the occasion of a concluding ceremony of workshop “ Camera Operating Skills’ here Aneesa urged media to follow Aljazeera’s suit in rehabilitating promising journalists so that they could manage their livelihood hit hard because of October 8’s quake in Kashmir region and parts of northwestern province
Five journalists from quake hit areas were imparted training by Aljazeera. The objective to organize workshop was to build professional capacities and skills to enable selected educated youngsters and promising journalists to earn their livelihood in their respective quake hit areas or elsewhere. State Minster also gave away training certificates and video cameras to each participant of workshop organized by Aljazeera Islamabad Bureau.
Later on Anseea while talking to reporters she said she would take up the matter with her Ministry to look at the possibility of employing some of recently trained cameramen. Earlier, Aljazeera Bureau chief Ahmed Muaffaq Zaidan recalled the killing of as many as 81 journalists in Kashmir and northwestern parts of Pakistan was indeed a great loss for Pakistani media.
He said by holding such workshop, Aljazeera has played its role in rehabilitating media-men from quake devastated region and he expects Pakistani media now to come forward and employee these journalists who have been equipped with basic training manuals as cameramen.