Staff Reporter
Karachi
The third regional training workshop regarding Countering Violent Extremism Media Product Development for the selected students of media studies from 10 universities of Sindh and Balochistan provinces was held here on Thursday.
The workshop was organized by the Paigham-e-Pakistan and Pakistan Peace Collective (PPC), a research and communication project of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which aims at equipping students with professional media product development skills with a deeper understanding of the role of media in countering violent extremism.
Syed Akber Mehmood Shirazi formally inaugurated the training workshop and welcomed the participants. In his opening remarks, he said the training module focuses on developing professional skills of the upcoming journalists in Pakistan on how to address the issues around extremist behaviour and how the media students can perform their role in peace building through developing creative media content.
Day one of the training started with a session by Qatrina Hossain, a senior journalist, on the impact of violent extremism in Pakistan (social and media narrative).
