REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

1. Applicant must be in publication:
For atleast 6 months in case of daily publication.
For atleast 12 months in case of a periodical publication.

2. Application must accompany profile / bio-data and passport size coloured photographs of publisher and editor of the publication.
3. The application must contain a demand draft in favour of APNS being the Application fee, entrance fee, and annual subscription as per following:

Application fee                                          Rs.2,000/-                 non refundable in any case.
Entrance fee
For Metropolitan                                        Rs.5,000/-
Publication.
For Regional & Periodical                             Rs.3,000/-                 Refundable in case
Publications. of rejection of application
Annual subscription
Periodical                                                 Rs.2,000/-
Regional Daily                                           Rs.2,500/-
Metropolitan B:
Dailies from Lahore/
Rawalpindi/Islamabad/Khi                            Rs.3,500/-
Metropolitan A:
Dailies from Lahore/
Rawalpindi/Islamabad/Khi                            Rs.5,500/-

4. Issues of publication as per following:
- Dailies : 25 separate issues per month for a period of six months.
- Bi-Weeklies : 80 separate issues per year.
- Weeklies : 40 separate issues per year.
- Fortnightlies : 20 separate issues per year and
- Monthlies : 10 separate issues per year.

5. Following documents must be enclosed with the application:
    i) Copies of the declaration duly authenticated by the prescribed authority,
    ii) Printer's Certificate from the press
    iii) Newswire Service Certificate,
    iv) National Tax Number and
    v) ABC Certificate.
In case any of these documents are not provided, reasons for inability to do so must be explained in writing to the satisfaction of the Executive Committee:

6. In case of daily publication proof of the fact that the publication is subscribing to news service if such a service is available in the town of publishing. However, if the publication is unable to avail such service, it must explain in writing the reasons for its inability to provide the same to the satisfaction of the Executive Committee.
7. No application for associate membership shall be considered by the Executive Committee unless complimentary copies of the publication are regularly submitted to the Secretariat since the date of the application under postal certificate.