Sunday 30 April 2017

PEMRA warns TV news channels for its official threatening, inappropriate language

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) warned a private news channel on Saturday night for one of its officials using “inappropriate and threatening language” against the media watchdog, a few days after it was barred from airing an interview of former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan.



“In a letter addressed to Chairman Pemra, one Executive Director of M/s. Independent Media Corporation, has used highly inappropriate language, with a threatening tone quoting unnamed lawyers and casting aspersions against a state institution,” the media watchdog  said in a statement.
“Pemra would take an appropriate action after consulting its legal department on the first working day,” it added.

The authority noted that “under Section 30A, only a high court has the first right of appeal against Pemra’s decision. In the absence of any intervening order by any high court the violation of the authority’s order would be illegal”.
Pemra further said it was determined to establish its writ and any violation of its lawful order would be taken as a willfully considered defiance and dealt with in accordance with the law.
On April 26, The Pakistan Army had released a confessional video of Ehsan, who gave a rare insight into the working of terrorist groups, including the TTP’s connections with Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies. Soon after, advertisements for the ex-commander’s interview ran on the private TV channel.
A day later, the regulatory authority reminded Geo TV that inviting a representative of an outlawed organisation involved in killing hundreds of innocent people would hurt the sentiments of the victims of terrorism.
According to the authority, only the interview released by the Pakistan Army could be shown on TV in which Ehsan had confessed to having misused religion and taken help from hostile agencies.
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Shameful for a PM to cast aspersions on Pakistani Women simply because they oppose him.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief whip Shireen Mazari on Saturday called out Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his remarks in his speech in Okara where he said PTI's women workers are 'different' from those who work for his party. She further demanded that he should apologise for his statement.
Addressing female PML-N workers, Nawaz had said, "You are not like those women who were present at the opponent's (PTI) rally yesterday. You all saw on TV what they were doing."
As a response, PTI's Mazari, in one of her tweets, said: "What was [the prime minister] insinuating? Shameful for a PM to cast aspersions on Pakistani women simply because they oppose him!"
She further accused people working in PML-N of having "a seriously misogynist mindset", adding whether it is Defence Minister Khawaja Asif or the PM himself, "they keep targeting women."
Mazari in a following tweet argued that Nawaz Sharif "should remember PML-N has women amongst its ranks [including his] daughter.
"Should we start abusing them? We will not remain silent," she added.
PTI Vice Chairperson Shah Mahmood Qureshi also supported Mazari's stance, joining her in condemning the "derogatory remarks about PTI women by PM Nawaz Sharif".
PPP Senator Sherry Rehman, referring to PM's statement, said, "For all those questioning what women are doing at rallies or anywhere else: they are making the world go round, not money."
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, sister of PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, also rebuffed PM Nawaz's statement, giving him a short "history lesson" about women such as their slain mother, Benazir Bhutto, "who led from the front" in the fight against misogyny.
Former law minister and Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarian Babar Awan further called out the PM in a tweet, backing women who support families financially and otherwise, and work for the country, saying that the Pakistan Constitution "demands full participation of women in national life".
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