PEMRA warns TV channels not to atmosphere calm jeopardising military’s image

Pemra, in a latest statement, done it transparent that all news and stream affairs TV channels, including a employees, panellists and anchorpersons, shall not hold in deliberating unverified news or research regarding to a country’s civil-military family but acknowledgment from a endangered institution.

The content, Pemra maintains, would be generally cryptic if it accuses a troops of something, tarnishes a ‘image’, or if it encourages anyone to take extra-constitutional measures.

“Those found in defilement of a new Pemra guideline would be charged underneath Section 27 of a Pemra Ordinance 2002,” a press recover stated.

Earlier this week, a Pemra authority was positive of a Army chief’s support in traffic with threats that a media watchdog employees were allegedly facing.

Earlier in January, a Bol News uncover conducted by Dr Shahid Hamid was served a notice by Pemra for “carelessly and recklessly” deliberating civil-military ties.

The essence of a programme, that were reproduced in Pemra’s show-cause notice, pronounced Dr Masood settled in his programme that dual ministers, one whose name starts with a ‘K’ and a other’s with a ‘D’, were called to a Army domicile (GHQ).

Dr Masood identified one of them as “dealing with a treasury” and a other as “related to defence”.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar afterwards served a insult notice of Rs1 billion to a government of Bol News and Dr Masood over a explain that a apportion had hold a assembly with army crew during a GHQ, Rawalpindi.

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