The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has its eyes on every channel! Nobody is safe from the media watchdog. The minute any network puts a toe out of line, PEMRA hits back with a warning, sometimes a hefty fine and even a ban!
This time its target became not one, but three leading channels of Pakistan! And well we don’t blame PEMRA for issuing a notice to all the channels.
After all, they broadcasted content that was extremely inappropriate for audiences of all age groups!
So the first channel is HUM TV who aired these controversial scenes in drama’ Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain’
Hum TV aired this:
[بچے نہ دیکھیں – پیمرا ] [1/3] pic.twitter.com/XyPaFUTg53— Report PEMRA (@reportpemra) August 17, 2017
As per PEMRA, the scene was “against commonly accepted social values”
And Geo too offended camera via these obscene clips!
Geo Entertainment aired this:
[بچے نہ دیکھیں – پیمرا ] [1/4] pic.twitter.com/fLhPNxcwNr— Report PEMRA (@reportpemra) August 17, 2017
According to PEMRA “No content is aired which ‘depicts behaviour such as smoking, alcohol consumption, narcosis and drug abuse'”
The last one is ARY Communications, who dared to broadcast a steamy lip lock scene of Van Wilder: Freshman Year on HBO.
ARY Communications aired this:
[بچے نہ دیکھیں – پیمرا ] [1/2] pic.twitter.com/gqEkgkN62w— Report PEMRA (@reportpemra) August 17, 2017
PEMRA says that it was clearly “indecent, obscene or pornographic” for audiences.
Read PEMRA’s complete notice here!
پیمرا نے اے آر وائی کمیونیکیشنز، ہم ٹی وی اور جیو انٹرٹینمنٹ کو انتباہ کیوں جاری کیا! [1/1] pic.twitter.com/W104JHmBfi
— Report PEMRA (@reportpemra) August 17, 2017
Sadly, no body is in favor of PEMRA’s decision.
#pemra pic.twitter.com/S9PUfQOw05
— Iram sherazi (@me_sherazi) August 17, 2017
Twitter is on fire with anti-PEMRA tweets!
This is very unprofessional from #PEMRA u supposed to investigate it & not post on social media @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL should file case against it
— Muhammad Irfan Javed (@Mo_Javed) August 17, 2017
Everybody is thinking PEMRA’s twitter account is hacked!
Is it ethical to put such stuff on official twitter handle of #PEMRA? Seems like @reportpemra is hacked.@AbsarAlamHaider pic.twitter.com/2vhNn5zC6z
— Aftab Alam (@aftabalam_77) August 17, 2017
Looks like #PEMRA handle has been hacked https://t.co/beoXhuFZEq
— Furqan T. Siddiqui (@furqantsiddiqui) August 17, 2017
People are questioning the watch-dog for tweeting offensive videos!
… and PEMRA tweets the offending video content – who shall take action against the Holy Pemra for spreading / making such content viral 😂 https://t.co/Gk1X48IvN6
— Awab Alvi (@DrAwab) August 17, 2017
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