Overview
- Information and Culture Minister Azma Zahid Bukhari chaired the fourth Information Steering/Review Committee meeting where Secretary Syed Tahir Raza Hamdani briefed officials on progress under the revised National Action Plan.
- The committee directed all relevant departments to adopt a timely, fact‑based and coordinated approach to counter disinformation, hate speech and anti‑state narratives through a single joint strategy.
- The minister prioritized media literacy in schools and ordered that school counselling services and educational forums be engaged to teach students how to spot false information and use social media responsibly.
- Bukhari publicly condemned derogatory remarks and behaviour by certain PTI figures as insulting to the Pashtun community, introducing a political and ethnic dimension to the province’s communications agenda.
- Officials emphasized these are policy directions rather than completed programs and said the Information and Culture Department will lead implementation under the revised National Action Plan to improve coordination and rapid responses to misleading content.