SLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has \u2018taken notice\u2019 of anti-military and anti-judiciary comments made by guests on two different private television channels.<\/p>\n

PEMRA sent letters of \u2018advice\u2019 to Aab Taak news and Bol News for airing anti-military and anti-judiciary comments. Aab Taak news found itself in trouble over the programme \u201cTonight with Fareeha\u201d in which one of the guests, Saddique ul Farooq, allegedly passed derogatory remarks against the armed forces of Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The other news channel, Bol News, was criticised for their programme \u201cTajziay Sami Ibrahim kay saath\u201d in which a guest, politician Ch Jaffar Iqbal, made offensive comments regarding the judiciary.<\/p>\n

The notification was among two other notifications of \u2018advice\u2019 issued by the media regulatory body, one of which had regarding pundit Orya Maqbool Jan\u2019s \u2018derogatory remarks\u2019 against Meesha Shafi, and the other about smoking scenes in a television drama aired by Pashto 1.<\/p>\n

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\nThe notices further state that airing of such content is in direct violation of PEMRA Ordinance 2002, PEMRA Rules 2009 and Electronic Media (Programmes and Advertisements) Code of Conduct 2015.<\/p>\n

The news channels have also been advised to have more robust editorial oversight and to utilise time-delay mechanism properly, so that abusive and undesirable foul language could be averted during the programmes.<\/p>\n

While the letters are not even an official warning, PEMRA has specifically pointed out in their letters that they have \u201ctime to time advised News and Current Affairs Satellite TV Channels Licenses to refrain from airing any content which is in violation of Electronic Media Code of Conduct 2015.<\/p>\n

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