The document summarizes several national news agencies from different countries: - Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), Pakistan Press International (PPI), Independent News Pakistan (INP), and NNI News are the major national news agencies in Pakistan. They gather domestic and international news to distribute to newspapers, websites and other media outlets. - Press Trust of India (PTI) is the largest news agency in India with over 500 affiliated newspapers. It provides news in English and Hindi. - Other international agencies mentioned include Xinhua News Agency of China, Bakhtar News Agency of Afghanistan, and Bernama, the national news agency of Malaysia. They distribute news within their countries and abroad to provide information to government and media

1. BY ALEENA IFTIKHAR

2. NATIONAL AGENCIES OF PAKISTAN

3. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OF
PAKISTAN
 Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is a government-
operated national news agency of Pakistan. The name APP
should not to be confused with the much larger Associated
Press news agency (AP), based in New York, though it is a
subscriber to both AP and Reuters, based in London. APP
has News Exchange Agreements with 37 Foreign News
Agencies and more than 500 correspondents

4. PAKISTAN PRESS INTERNATIONAL
 Pakistan Press International is a news agency founded
in June 1956 as Pakistan Press Association (PPA). The name
was changed in 1968. It was first started by Mr. Muzzam
Ali, the Chief Editor of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).
The agency objective was to provide competition to APP's
monopoly. It began its service by hand, only in Karachi.
PPA also built up a network of correspondents in the
smaller cities and towns in Pakistan. This was in contrast to
APP, which had coverage in a limited number of large
cities. For foreign news the agency signed up with the
Agence France-Presse (AFP) in 1957, and a year later
became the first Asian partner of DPA. PPA also posted a
correspondent in the Middle East, an area of special
interest to Pakistani newspapers

5. INDEPENDENT NEWS PAKISTAN
 INP.net.pk is among the Pakistan leaders in online
news and information delivery. Staffed 24 hours, seven
days a week by a dedicated staff in INP Capital
headquarters in Islamabad, and in bureaus Lahore,
Peshawar, Karachi,Queatta & Azad Kashmir, with
more than 1000 correspondent all our the Pakistan and
world, INP.net.pk relies heavily on INP's team of
almost 100 news professionals. INP.net.pk features the
latest technologies, to searchable archives of news
features and background information. The site is
updated continuously throughout the day.

6. NNI NEWS
 NNI News or News Network International (NNI) is a
private-operated national news agency of Pakistan. It is a
Pakistan's most prominent news agency after Associated
Press of Pakistan (APP) and competitor of INP, ANN,
Online, INN, PPA and SABAH. It was established in 1992
and headquartered in G-7 zero point, Islamabad It have
also offices in other major cities of Pakistan including
Lahore, Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar. It have hundreds of
reporters, Bureau chief all across the Pakistan and around
the globe to cover national and international issues.It
provide services in both languages Urdu and English. In
2013 NNI's photographer killed in a blast.

7. ONLINE NEWS AGENCY
 It is indeed our great privilege to introduce Pakistan's
leading news and photo agency Online International
News Network (OINN) to you. This is Pakistan's first
bilingual news and photo wire service, dedicated to
issues that are neglected by the mainstream media.
 t was in this background that Mr. Mohsin Baig, the
company's Chairman thought of setting up a news
network worthy of credibility at home as well as in the
foreign world. Mr Baig, who has been a journalist in
his own right and now Chief Executive Online
initiated this project in January 1999.

8. NATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES OF
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

9. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA (PTI)
 Press Trust of India (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. A few correspondents are
based in major capitals and important business centers on
the world. 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.

10. Emirates News Agency
 The Emirates News Agency 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. In addition to its
national offices, it has offices in Cairo, Beirut,
Washington, Sanaa, Brussels and Islamabad

11. Bakhtar News Agency
(Afghanistan):-
Bakhtar News Agency is the official state news agency of the Afghan
government, based in Kabul. The agency is a major source of news
for all media in Afghanistan, gathering domestic and international
news and providing information to outlets.
 The government had planned to make the agency independent of
government control in 2004 before elections.
 In 2002, Agency France-Press established a satellite link providing
news information to the Bakhtar News Agency.
 Established in 1939 by the Government Press Department, it
monitors foreign and domestic news before distribution. The English
sector of the news distribution was not added until 1992 in order to
keep foreign diplomats informed of Afghan news. The Ministry of
Culture and Information monitors the agency

12. The Xinhua News Agency
(China):
 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.
 Xinhua is regarded as the most influential media outlet in China as almost
every newspaper in China relies on Xinhua feeds for content. People's Daily,
for example, uses Xinhua material for approximately 25 percent of its stories.
Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency—it owns more than 20
newspapers and a dozen magazines, and it prints in eight languages:
Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, and
Japanese.

13. The Malaysian National
News
 The Malaysian National News
Agency (Malay: Pertubuhan Berita Nasional
Malaysia), abbreviated BERNAMA, is a news
agency of the government of Malaysia. It is an
autonomous body placed under the Ministry of
Communication and Multimedia. Bernama is an
abbreviation of Berita Nasional Malaysia. Bernama
also means named or titled in the Malay language. 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.

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