• April 28, 2017
• Media Development

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday admitted for hearing an appeal filed by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) against a Lahore High Court order of Dec 28, 2016 that had set aside its regulations prohibiting television broadcasters from entering the Direct to Home (DTH) market. A five-judge bench of the court headed by […]

• April 28, 2017
• Front Page, Media and Governance, Media and Society, Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: The electronic media regulator has stopped airing of former Tali­ban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan’s exclusive interview by a private TV channel as the law does not allow portraying a positive image of a terrorist. A former spokesman for the banned Tehreek-i-Tali­ban Pakistan (TTP) and then its breakaway faction Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Ehsan recently surrendered to the authorities […]

• April 28, 2017
• Arts and Entertainment

Asim Abbasi may be a ‘nobody’ when it comes to films in Pakistan but he has been gathering experience internationally with his short films since 2012. His upcoming production, Cake which counts Sanam Saeed, Adnan Malik and Aamina Sheikh as principal cast, is slated to release later this year and for which he has donned […]

• April 28, 2017
• Media and Society

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday prohibited Geo News from airing of the interview of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Ehsan Ullah Ehsan in Jirga (TV show) as well as its promo. It has come to Pemra’s notice through monitoring that the private TV channel Geo News in its programme ‘Jirga’, which […]

• April 28, 2017
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Media and Governance, Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan to implement recommendations of the committee, which probed Dawn Leaks, in letter and spirit. In a meeting on Thursday, the interior minister briefed the prime minister about important issues including the Dawn Leaks case. According to the interior ministry spokesperson, all the legal […]

• April 28, 2017
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Social Media

A ban on usage of communication outlets, namely social media, is to be decried in any nation as it obstructs freedom of expression, which is a universal basic right even though some countries may not recognise it as so. We condemned the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority when it enforced a YouTube ban between September 2012 and […]