Tag: Television

December 21, 2012 No Responses

PEMRA disfigured by ‘look-after’ bureaucrats on all posts

By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: The Pemra, the regulatory body for the electronic media, has been badly ruined during the recent years after having been turned into an entity ruled by a bunch of temporary officers, all of whom terribly failed to do their primary job of a regulator. Although, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on […]
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December 21, 2012 No Responses

Supreme Court bars acting chairman PEMRA from working

By: Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday barred the acting chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Dr Abdul Jabbar from holding office and asked the government to appoint a head of the authority on a permanen...
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August 1, 2012 No Responses

Shaista Zaid: an appeal to government

By: ANIS SIDDIQUI Islamabad: SHAISTA Zaid bade farewell to news reading on radio and television after over 40 years. She read her last bulletin on Pakistan Television the other day while she had left Radio Pakistan a couple of years ago for health reasons. Ms ...
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June 1, 2012 No Responses

Hajj awareness campaign: PTV, PBC, religious affairs ministry sign MoU

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Television, Radio Pakistan and the Ministry of Religious Affairs on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understand for Hajj Awareness Campaign, 2012. Joint Secretary Ministry of Religious Affairs Shahzad Ahmad, Managing Director PTV Yousuf Baig...
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March 30, 2012 No Responses

Measures being taken to empower Pemra: Firdous

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government is taking measures to empower Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). She said that there is a need to brin...
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March 3, 2012 No Responses

KP Judicial Academy to have TV, radio channels

PESHAWAR: Television and radio channels will be set up at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy for people’s education on their legal rights, said Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad on Friday. “Efforts are afoot to establish radio an...
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February 25, 2012 No Responses

Pemra warns TV channels over ‘debate’ on Balochistan

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) late Friday night warned private TV channels against holding programmes and talk shows on Balochistan issue highlighting views of some disgruntled Baloch Sardars without any editorial control. ...
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February 1, 2012 No Responses

Pemra warns TV channels against defamatory satire

<p>Mumtaz Alvi</p><p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Tuesday took serious note of what it called the creeping undesirable media practices, whereby television channels in particular had started invading the personal privacy in ...
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