The President, PIPS Board of Governors, had expressed herdesire that PIPS must hold a workshop for parliamentary reporters to apprise them of parliamentary rules of procedures. Therefore, the institute held a two days orientation workshop on Best practices of Parliamentary Reporting, Rules of Procedures and Parliamentary Committees in which PIPS engaged reputable journalists such as Mr Mazhar Abbas, President, Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist, and Mr Zia ud din, Executive Editor, Daily Times, and parliamentary experts such as Mr Karamat Hussein Niazi, Secretary, National Assembly, and Mr Iftikhar Ullah Babar, Special Secretary, Senate, as resource persons for the event. More than 30 parliamentary reporters, including print and electronic media, participated actively but also acknowledged this initiative of Madam Speaker/President PIPS Board of Governors. PIPS would continue to offer similar courses on various parliamentary topics on regular basis.