MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF THE

ALL PAKISTAN NEWSPAPERS SOCIETY

      I.  NAME
     II.  HEADQUARTERS & ADDRESS
   III  OBJECTS 

 I. NAME

 1        The Name of the Society shall be "ALL PAKISTAN NEWSPAPERS SOCIETY."

 II. HEADQUARTERS & ADDRESS

2.        The Headquarter of the Society will be situated in Karachi at 32, Farid Chambers, Abdullah Haroon Road, or at such other place as may be decided by the General Council from time to time.

 III. OBJECTS

 3.        The objects for which the Society is formed are:

(a)        To act as the central organization of the Newspapers Industry of Pakistan.

(b)        To encourage, promote and originate the science and art of journalism and newspapers industry and to produce and publish the necessary literature in regard thereto and impart and diffuse among the members of the Society all useful information, knowledge and statistics which may in any manner relate to or affect the newspaper owners or industry or journalism and which may be collected from within Pakistan or from abroad. 

(c)        To originate and promote improvements in the law, and to support or oppose alterations therein, and to effect improvements in administration, and for the purposes aforesaid to petition to National or to Provincial Assemblies and any other authority, and to take such other steps and proceedings as may be deemed expedient.

 (d)        To hold periodical conferences of its members to discuss and determine action on matters of common interests.

 (e)        To facilitate the interchange by newspaper owners of their views in regard to matters of common interest and to afford to newspaper owners the means of association, and to watch over.  protect, preserve and promote the rights and interests of newspaper owners, and to give the legislative, municipal  and public bodies and other facilities for conferring with and ascertaining the views and wishes of newspaper owners as regards matters directly or indirectly affecting their rights and interests.

 (f)         To promote co-operation in all matters affecting the common interests of members.

 (g)        To make rules to govern the conduct of its members to provide penalties for the infringements thereof and to provide means of determining whether there have been such infringements.

 (h)        to make rules for accreditation and conduct of business of advertising agencies and to     provide penalties for the infringement thereof.

 (i)         To maintain a permanent Secretariat at the headquarters of the Society to watch the interests of the members and to organize a constant interchange of information and views.

 (j)         To undertake or assist financially or otherwise in promoting or opposing litigation in any case affecting the interest of newspaper owners so far as may legally be done without infringing the rules of laws against maintenance and champerty.

 (k)        To undertake and execute any trust or agency business which may seem directly or indirectly conducive to any of the objects of the Society or of advantage to any of its members.

 (l)         To establish, subsidise, promote, co-operate, co-operate with, receive into union, become a member of, act as or appoint trustees, agents or delegates for, control, manage, superintend, lend monetary assistance to or otherwise assist any associations and institutions incorporated or not incorporated which may seem calculated directly or indirectly to promote the interest of newspaper owners.

 (m)      To establish, undertake, superintend, administer and contribute to any charitable or benevolent institution or fund constituted for objects, which may seem to the Society directly or indirectly conducive, to the interests of newspaper owners.

 (n)        To grant donations in such cases and for such purposes as the Society may think directly or indirectly conducive to any of its objects.

 (o)        To purchase, take, lease, exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any real and personal property, and any rights or privileges which seem necessary or convenient for the purposes of the Society, and to construct alter and maintain any building required for such purposes.

 (p)       To borrow or raise money for any of the purposes of the Society on such terms as may be deemed expedient.

 (q)       To sell, improve, manage, develop, lease, mortgage, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any part of the property of the Society.

 (r)        To do all such other things as may seem, to the Society to be incidental or conductive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.

Name of the Office-Bearers and                    The Name, addresses and other particulars

members of the Executive Committee           of the persons to whom the management of

                                                                        the Society is entrusted are as follows:

In pursuance hereof, we the following persons do hereby form, the said Society and have subscribed our respective hands hereunto at Karachi.

Witnesses to the above signatures.

1. _________________________                              2. __________________________

Name______________________                              Name_______________________

Address:____________________                              Address:_____________________

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