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Bilawal Bhutto felicitates new-elected APNS office-bearers

ISLAMABAD, March 31 (APP): Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Thursday congratulated the newly-elected office-bearers of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS).
He hoped that Pakistan’s premier media body would play its role for advancing democratic traditions and strengthening of democratic institutions in the country.
“PPP and the journalist community have fought dictatorial forces together in the past and offered sacrifices shoulder by shoulder in nation’s struggle for restoration of democracy,: he stated in a message to the newly-elected President Sarmad Ali and General Secretary Umer Mujeeb Shami of APNS.
Bilawal Bhutto pledged that PPP would continue to stand by an independent media and considered its role as pivotal for the development of a democratic society.
PPP Chairman also extended congratulations to all the newly-elected office-bearers of APNS and assured them full cooperation from his Party in future too.