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Matiullah Jan briefs parliamentary panel

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ISLAMABAD: Prominent journalist Matiullah Jan, who was released hours after he was picked up by unidentified armed men from a busy street in the capital last month, requested a parliamentary panel on Wednesday to constitute a committee comprising members of the Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting from the Senate and the National Assembly to […]


TV channel owner booked

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LAHORE: The city police on Wednesday registered a first information report (FIR) against Mohsin Naqvi, the owner of TV channel 24NewsHD, for “airing hate inciting content” during a special Muharram transmission on August 30. A FIR was registered at the Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate police station on the complaint of Khalid Mehmood. Newspaper: Business Recorder


PTA asks YouTube to immediately block indecent content

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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has once again approached YouTube to immediately block vulgar, indecent, immoral and hate speech content for viewing in Pakistan. In a statement issued by PTA said, the platform has been directed to put in place an effective content monitoring and moderation mechanism to expeditiously respond to PTA’s request for […]


PTA blocked dating apps spreading vulgarity, nudity, and homosexuality

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ISLAMABAD: The five dating applications, recently blocked by the PTA, were found involved in spreading nudity and promoting even homosexuality by sharing indecent videos of lesbians and gays. These live broadcasting Apps also contained such indecent and immoral content hosted by Pakistani users, which showed how these Apps were spreading immorality within the society. A […]


Senate panel calls for film industry’s revival

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ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has stressed the need for revival of the film industry in Pakistan. Presiding over a meeting of the committee on Wednesday, its chairman Faisal Javed noted that the film industry had declined to this level because previous governments had done nothing to promote it. The meeting […]