Government releases over Rs1.4 billion advertisements to dailies in three years
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government released advertisements worth more than Rs1.44 billion to regional and national newspapers during the last three years, the provincial assembly has been told.
The details released by the provincial information department show that the directorate of information released advertisements worth over Rs1.44 billion to regional and national dallies published from KP, Islamabad and Rawalpindi in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The statistics do not include the ads, which the departments and attached directorates directly released to different newspapers.
The details of advertisements were sought by MPA Inayatullah Khan through a question in the assembly. The official documents submitted to the provincial assembly on Tuesday revealed that the directorate of information released ads worth Rs1.07 billion to 66 newspapers including dummy papers published from Peshawar during the past three years.
Similarly, 24 national dallies published from Islamabad and Rawalpindi had been released ads worth Rs250 million. The cash value of ads released to 28 newspapers published from different towns of KP was Rs100 million. Majority of the newspapers published from Peshawar and other district headquarters are small time papers having very nominal circulation.
Source: Dawn
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