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Capital’s cinema may reopen today

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ISLAMABAD: On Saturday, the district administration sealed Centaurus Cineplex and arrested its five employees for violating Ehteram-i-Ramazan Ordinance 1981. Although the employees have now been released, the cinema administrators said they will apply for reopening of the cinema on Monday, in the court of the district magistrate. Meanwhile, the cinema has refunded the tickets’ fee […]


Islamabad’s only cinema sealed for screening movies at ‘Iftar time’

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ISLAMABAD: The district administration on Saturday sealed Cineplex, the only cinema in the federal capital located at Centaurus Mall, and arrested five of its employees for screening movies at ‘Iftar time’. The administration closed the cinema for an indefinite period under the Ehteram-i-Ramazan Ordinance, which prohibits screening of movies during Iftar and Taraveeh. The fun-starved […]