Azam Ali KARACHI: About 80 leaders and members of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Punjab Bar Council (PbBC), and the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) will issue ‘Awami licences’ to Geo Super, the only sports channel of the country, and Aag, the youth channel, at a ceremony here today (Tuesday). Talking to The News, SCBA […]
QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) will hear today (Wednesday) the constitutional petition of ex-chief of Pemra Balochistan, Gul Muhammad Kakar, who was removed/repatriated by acting chairman Pemra, Dr Jabbar, during the telecast of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Kakar has prayed before the BHC that he was serving as Regional General Manager (RGM) Pemra […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has granted a week to the deputy attorney general to file comments on behalf of the Ministry of Interior on the Independent Music Group’s petition for the issuance of a satellite media license to its sports channel Geo Super. SHC’s division bench headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed granted time to […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has drawn up a tentative list of foreign channels that can be shown by the cable operators, an official said. He said the list was drawn up after series of complaints by customers that the cable operators were showing foreign channels that played indecent programmes, which did not […]
RAWALPINDI: Various political and religious leaders, members of the civil society, students, lawyers, journalists and labourers on Wednesday strongly condemned the closure of Geo Super by the government and demanded its immediate restoration. Prominent among those who condemned the government action included Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, President Jamhoori […]
RAWALPINDI: The cable operators ended their strike at 10:00pm on Saturday after which the transmission of all the private TV channels were restored. The Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (COAP) had announced a strike for 24 hours starting from Saturday 12:00 noon against the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) action against cable operators and […]
By: Iqtidar Gilani LAHORE — Stressing upon restructuring and empowering of various regulatory authorities, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan expressed her willingness here on Saturday to free the PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority) from the control of her ministry. Addressing the participants at a seminar on the topic of […]
Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) in response to The News story on “Pemra’s mega recruitment scandal involving its acting chairman Dr Jabbar” issued a press release on Friday which has not denied but surprisingly confirmed all the facts. Following is the text of the clarification issued by the Pemra on Friday: […]
ISLAMABAD: A complaint has been moved before the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry against alleged misconduct of a private TV channel’s CEO with the counsel of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (PEMRA). According to the application, filed by counsel for the PEMRA, Ali Raza, immediately after conclusion of the hearing of a […]
By Azam Ali KARACHI: Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) has said that the attitude of Pemra with Geo Television Network was tantamount to massive corruption and for it an action would be taken under Article 9 of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance. TIP Chairman Syed Adil Gilani, while talking to The News, said that any […]
RAWALPINDI: The Honourable Delhi High Court ruled in favour of ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd (ESIPL), in its suit for permanent injunction filed against cable operators across the country against unauthorised broadcast of the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, restraining all cable operators from unauthorisedly showing the tournament through their cable networks. The ICC […]
ISLAMABAD: After listening to arguments of the parties during the hearing of the contempt petition filed by Geo Super, the Supreme Court directed Pemra to submit a monitoring report today (Tuesday). During the hearing Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry remarked that PTV has the rights to telecast World Cup matches only on antenna. Apart from […]
ISLAMABAD: The PTV management has resorted to underhand tactics to transmit unauthorised World Cricket Cup transmission to viewers through its satellite network to hoodwink the authorities. PTV has only rights to transmit World Cup matches through its terrestrial network whereas it is using its satellite capacity and channels in a clandestine manner to transmit the […]
KARACHI: When Saqib Abro’s school shut down for more than five months after the floods washed over his tehsil Warah in Kambar, he managed to still keep up with his Matric syllabus – by watching television. His parents could hardly object because he was actually studying, with the help of a one-hour programme that worked […]
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