Amid rising Coronavirus cases in Occupied Kashmir, An Urdu daily in Valley surprised its readers on Tuesday with complimentary face masks with each copy. The newspaper also had a message above the mask which read ‘mask ka istemal zaroori hai (using a mask is important).
The newspaper, Daily Roshni, hired additional people to pack the masks and dispatch them with the newspapers. “We had to hire more employees to pack these masks and make sure the copies get ready. To ensure things are finished on time, we sent the publishing copy three hours prior to the press,” Zahoor Ahmad Shora, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper was quoted as saying by Free press Kashmir.
