US extending all-out support to journalists

Published: October 16, 2011

MULTAN - Information officer of US Consulate General Lahore Leslie Nunez Goodman said on Saturday that the Consulate would extend all out support to the journalists for holding training workshops and other activities for the uplift of their professional capabilities.

She declared this while talking to Resident Editor Nawa-i-Waqt Multan Shamim Asghar Rao during her visit to Nawa-i-Waqt/The Nation offices here. She disclosed that the US government was going to launch a number of new training and exchange programmes for the journalists.
“The largest exchange programme in the world is currently going on in Pakistan,” she added. She said that the consulate would extend support for holding workshops and seminars in Multan Press Club.
She further revealed that the Consulate was also going to launch an E Library very soon. “It will enable journalists to access Consulate’s rich library from their own computers. What they need to do is to just contact us and get log-in name and password,” she added. She hoped that the library would benefit the journalist community a lot.
To a query, she said that strong signs of improvement in Pak-US relations had appeared