Terms and Conditions

A News Network

Content Policy:

Content shown on TNN’s website, anews.pk is monitored the Today News Network . It is moderated and verified through an Editorial procedure before publishment.

Any data taken or shown on the internet with the brand A News Network Limited is bound to mark this website as the canonical to the content.

Procedure we follow for providing valid and verified information to the public:

  • Physical reporters providing verified information from specific regions across Pakistan.
  • Telecasted content from around the world containing valuable information.
  • Open Source broadcast by the government officials.
  • Public scholarly information provided on the internet.
  • Information fetched, researched and edited by the senior editors of the organization.
  • Personal opinions of well acknowledged and senior journalists under the contract of the organization.

Video Content Terms:

  • All the video content provided on the website are copyrighted by the A News Network
  • Videos shown on the website are directly provided from A News Youtube channel using Youtube API Services.

Youtube API ToS:

This website makes use of Youtube’s API Services to populate the videos on the website and abides by the Google Privacy Policy.

The Youtube Terms of Services can be found here and Google Privacy Policy can be found here.

By viewing videos on this website, you agree to abide by the Youtube Terms of Services and Google Privacy Policy..

Polls and Voting Terms and Conditions:

Question asked on the website are based on events happening at that moment around the world.

They are not meant to draw controversies and are ideally asked to get the general opinion of people viewing the website.

All the participants data is kept anonymous and not even our own admins have the record on the entries done by the audience of this website.

A total number of participations for a single poll is recorded on the website and kept for general use. The results percentages are based on this total value.

ANN’s Promises and Vows:

ANN pledges to equip its audiences with the most credible, reliable and accurate information to keep them up-to-date round the clock.

We at ANN believe in giving the due right of information to the people but at the same time, we have the agenda to prioritize our news time, transmission time and our headlines focusing on the issues that directly affect the viewers and interest them.

ANN vows to contribute its share in fighting the social menace exist in society by spreading awareness and mobilizing the young of Pakistan who make up over 70 per cent of its population.

To maintain the highest professional standards, the institute along with its staff members must comply with the journalistic code of ethics.

It is the responsibility of editors and publishers to apply the Code to editorial material in both printed and online versions of publications.

ANN promises to highlight issues related to education and health as better and affordable education and healthcare facilities are basic rights of people. It also pledges to do accurate and credible reporting on topics ranging from politics to the economy, foreign policy to investment, sports to culture and theatre and the arts.

ANN promises to highlight issues related to education and health as better and affordable education and healthcare facilities are basic rights of people. It also pledges to do accurate and credible reporting on topics ranging from politics to the economy, foreign policy to investment, sports to culture and theatre and the arts.

1. Accuracy

Publishing of any inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures must be avoided. If published, should also corrected immediately with due prominence, and made clarification where needed.

A publication must report fairly and accurately the outcome of an action for defamation to which it has been a party, unless an agreed settlement states otherwise, or an agreed statement is published.

2. Journalistic Practices / Professionalism

ANN adheres to the traditional best practices of journalism. The guiding principles are based on our responsibility to the reader to produce accurate, fair, and independent content.

3. Values and Biases

ANN will never oblige any such person or institution on biasness. Impartiality will be the core value of our editorial policy.

4. Privacy

Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications. Invasion to private life without one’s consent must be justified by authorities; strict action will be taken on complaint of intrusion to one’s private information. Taking photos of any individual without consent will not be acceptable.

5. Reporting ethically about grief or shock

In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with caution as the situation needs more comforting and sympathetic words to ease the pain of the sufferer and publication handled sensitively. When reporting about suicide, murder or any blast including causalities, care should be taken to avoid images or visuals including blood and body parts.

6. Victims of sexual assault

The press must not identify victims of sexual assault or publish material likely to contribute to such identification unless there is adequate justification and they are legally free to do so.

In any press report of a case involving a sexual offence against a child – The child must not be identified.

7. Discrimination

Details of an individual’s race, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or disability that might hurt individual’s integrity and self esteem, must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story.

8. Confidential sources

Sources of news are not always confidential but they are also respectable. They confidentiality must be retain at every cost. Therefore, it is moral obligation of the organization to protect confidential sources of information.

9. Piracy

Pirated, plagiarism and copies content is not allowed at all. The individuals are bound to produce their own exclusive and genuine material.

10. Wellbeing of messes

Using the media platform to address the issues, problems and day to day agony of the people, which are often ignored by popular media, for their wellbeing.