The document discusses various local, national, and international news agencies operating in and serving Pakistan. It provides details on 12 local news agencies, including APP, ANN, INP, NNI, and PPI. It also lists 6 international news agencies from countries like India, Malaysia, China, UAE, Russia, and Iran. The news agencies discussed gather and distribute news to subscribing media organizations across print, television, radio, and online formats.

1. BY ALMAS SHEIKH

2.  The news agencies are associated with
gathering current news reports and
selling them to subscribing news
organizations such as channels,
newspapers, radio and magazines
 The news agencies in Pakistan are
selling current news stories to news
channels and newspapers like a hot cake

3.  Local News Agencies
 National News Agencies
 International News Agencies

4.  APP
 ANN
 INP
 NNI
 Online
 PPI
 PPA
 Sabah
 Sharp Eye
 UPP

5.  Government-Operated National News
Agency of Pakistan
 APP Works under the Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting of
Pakistan
 Its Head quarters in Pakistan
 APP covers: Official, political and
district news from the region as well
global APP -Associated Press of
Pakistan

6.  Asia News Network is an alliance of 22
newspapers in 20 countries in Asia
 It is the world’s largest alliance of
leading language newspaper in
respective countries
 ANN is the publisher of AsiaNews, a
52-page glossy bi-monthly magazine
ANN-Asian News Network

7.  INP is among the Pakistan leaders in online
news and information delivery
 INP has its head quarters in Islamabad
and regional offices in: Lahore, Peshawar,
Karachi, Quetta and Azad Kashmir
 INP has a strong team of almost 100 news
professionals
 It features the latest technologies, to
searchable news features and background
information INP-Independent News
Pakistan

8.  NNI is a privately operated National news
agency of Pakistan
 NNI was established in 1992 and has its
headquarter in Islamabad
 NNI is rated as Pakistan's most
prominent news agency after APP
 NNI also has regional offices in major
cities of the country :Lahore, Karachi,
Quetta and Peshawar
 Publications are bi-lingual i.e. in Urdu and
English NNI - News Network
International

9.  Pakistan’s first bilingual wire service
 Publishes news simultaneously in Urdu
and English with comprehensive national
and international news and photo
coverage
 OINN has a very strong network of
professionals representing entire
Pakistan and at International Globe

10.  PPI was founded in June 1956 as Pakistan
Press Association
 It was first started by Mr. Muzzam Ali,
the Chief Editor of APP
 PPI was established with the intent to
provide competition to APP
 PPI began its services by Hand only in
Karachi later on it installed tele-printers
at its client sites PPI-Pakistan Press
International

11.  Chief Editor: Mr. Khalid Athar
 Editor: Mr Zameer Qadri
 Address of Head Office, Phone & Fax. No:
ISLAMABAD: H. No. 6, St. 39, G-6/2,
Islamabad-44000
 E-Mail: newsatisb@yahoo.com and
khalidathar@hotmail.com
 Nature of Service Provided: News, Features,
Photo Service and Publications

12.  SABAH Sabah stands for South Asian
Broadcasting Agency.
 Its slogan is “Accurate & Reliable.” The
Chief Editor of Sabah is Shakil Ahmed
Turabi.
 Its headquarter is in Islamabad-
Pakistan.
 The complete address is as follows: 1st
Floor Chinar Chambers St.No-48 Sector
G-6/1 Islamabad-Pakistan

13.  Sharp Eye is Pakistan's Independent International News
Agency Established in January 2000.
 Aim to provide true news to T.V. Channels, national as well
as international newspapers on modern lines following the
modern and latest standards; “
 Sharp Eye" is working under the supervision of its founder
Mian Muhammad Azhar Amin.
 He is renowned Journalist of Pakistan and has the
experience of working for Pakistani as well as foreign
Newspapers, News Agencies and a TV Channel.
 In the light of his Experience he felt the need for
establishment of an independent news agency that could
be a source for presenting true news to media all the
world in different languages. Address of headquarter:
 Sharp Eye (Pvt.) Ltd., 111-Lytton Road, Qurtaba Chowk,
Lahore

14.  Year of Establishment: November, 1948
 Name of Chief Executive: Mr. Mahmudul Aziz,
 Chairman: Begum Khurshid Abdul Hafiz
 Address of Head Office: 1, Victoria Chambers,
Haji Abdullah Haroon Road, Karachi-74400,
Pakistan
 Nature of Service Provided: News Service
provided in English & Urdu by Fax to major Urdu,
English, Sindhi and also Gujrati newspapers of
Pakistan at negotiated rates.
 Token news service also provided to the Pakistan
Government, Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting and the Sindh Information
Department, Government of Sindh.

15.  PTI ( INDIA )
 BARNAMA ( MALAYSIA )
 XINGHUA ( CHINA )
 WAM ( U.A.E )
 ATARTAS,SPUTINK ( RUSSIA )
 IRNA ( IRAN )
 SANA ( SYRIA )

16.  (PTI) is the largest news agency in India.It is
headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative
among more than 500 Indian newspapers and has more
than 1,000 full-time employees, as on January 22, 2016.It
employs over 400 journalists and 500 part-time
correspondents located in most of the district
headquarters in the country.
 It took over the operations of the Associated Press
from Reuters soon after India's independence on August
15, 1947.
 It provides news coverage and information of the region
in both English and Hindi. Its corporate office is located
at Sansad Marg, New Delhi and registered office in D N
Road, Mumbai

17.  The Malaysian National News Agency (Malay: Pertubuhan
Berita Nasional Malaysia), abbreviated BERNAMA, is a
news agency of the government of Malaysia.
 Bernama is an abbreviation of Berita Nasional Malaysia.
 It was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and started
work on 20 May 1968. Being the Malaysian government's
official news agency, Bernama's content and views are
decidedly right-leaning and pro-government of the day.
 BERNAMA operates from its headquarters at Wisma
Bernama, off Jalan tun Razak near National Library, Kuala
Lumpur. It has its branches in every state in Malaysia. It
also has correspondents in Jakarta, Singapore, New Delhi,
Bangkok and Beijing and also its stringers in, New York,
Australia and London. Most of the news media in Malaysia
and Singapore and international news agencies subscribe
to BERNAMA.

18.  The Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation:
/ˌʃɪnˈhwɑː/) is the official press agency of the
People's Republic of China. Xinhua is the biggest
and most influential media organization in China.
Xinhua is a ministry-level institution subordinate to
the Chinese central government. Its president is a
member of the Central Committee of China's
Communist Party.
 Xinhua operates more than 170 foreign bureaus
worldwide, and maintains 31 bureaus in China—one
for each province, plus a military bureau. Xinhua is
the sole channel for the distribution of important
news related to the Communist Party and Chinese
central government.

19.  Emirates News Agency (Arabic:
‫أنباء‬‫وكالة‬‫االمارات‬, translit. Wakalat Anba'a al
Emarat), also known as WAM, is the official
news agency of the United Arab Emirates.
 The WAM was launched in November 1976.It
started Arabic broadcast on 18 June 1977 and
English broadcast in December 1978. The
agency which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi is
part of National Media Council.
 The agency has Arabic and English news
services and has a website in both languages

20.  Sputnik (pronounced spʊtnɪk)is a news agency, news websites
and radio broadcastservice established bythe Russian
government-controlled news agency Rossiya
Segodnya.Headquartered in Moscow, Sputnik has regional
editorial offices in Washington, Cairo, Beijing, London and
Edinburgh.It focuses on global politics and economics and is
geared entirelytowards a non-Russian audience.Sputnik has been
widely accused ofbias, disinformation and being a Russian
propagandaoutlet.
 Sputnik currentlyoperates news websites, featuringreporting
and commentary, in over 30 languagesincluding English, Spanish,
Polish, Serbian, and several others. The websites also house
over 800 hours of radio broadcastingmaterialeach day and its
newswire service runs around the clock, Alongside its news
content, Sputnik also sells other productsincluding photo
essays, live streaming, infographics,and public opinionsurveys

21.  The Islamic Republic News Agency
(Persian: ‫جمهوری‬‫خبرگزاری‬‫اسالمی‬), or
IRNA, is the official news agency of the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
 It is government-funded and controlled
under the Iranian Ministry of Culture and
Islamic Guidance. The agency also
publishes the newspaper Iran.
 As of 2010, the Managing Director of
IRNA is Mohammad Khodaddi. IRNA has
60 offices in Iran and 30 more in various
countries around the world

22.  The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) (Arabic:
‫السورية‬‫العربية‬‫الوكالة‬‫أللنباء‬ Al-Wakālah al-'Arabīyah
as-Sūrīyah al-'Anbā) is a news agency in Syria.
 It is a public-owned media organization linked to
the Ministry of Information. It was established in
June 1965.
 SANA launched its website in 1997.Up until
November 2012, SANA's website was hosted in
Dallas, Texas by the United States company
SoftLayer. Due to sanctions related to the Syrian
Civil War, which make this hosting illegal, the
SoftLayer company was obliged to terminate its
hosting responsibilities with SANA.