KARACHI:
A two-member bench of Sindh High Court, headed by Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai, hearing a petition filed by the Independent Media Corporation has issued notices to the country’s electronic media regulator along with other respondents.
The complainant has made Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and a television channel company, Horizon, respondents in the petition.
The complainant maintains that Pemra has allowed Pakistani channels to air only up to 10% foreign content, however, the said TV channel was airing 80-90% foreign content.
Pemra has failed in its mandate to regulate the electronic media and take notice of excess of foreign serials on the local channel, the complainant said.
Independent Media Corporation said Pemra’s inaction against Horizon for airing excess foreign content was discriminatory and unconstitutional.
The complainant urged the court to make the respondent bring foreign content in its channel in conformity with the law and impose fine and cancel its licences if it fails to do so.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 11th, 2013.
Finally someonewoke up not lets hope PEMRA wakes up before its too late.
btw 10% foreign content tau P&G kay indian ads ka hee baan jana hai.
Re: Foreign serials: Court issues notice to PEMRA, others
mera nahn khayal k kuch ho ga saare private channels ka daana pani foreign contents se hi chal raha hai, national programs se koi faida nahn ho raha...
Re: Foreign serials: Court issues notice to PEMRA, others
^^ foreign content saay pahly bhee tau yeh channels chaltay thai na?
tabb koon sa UN saay imdaad ati thee inn ko
chalte to thai aur chal rahe hain (actually ghaseet rahe hain) lakin jis crisis se guzar rahe hain wo bhut bhayanak hai, foreign contents se per commercial profit kaafi ziada hai local contents ki banisbat.
Re: Foreign serials: Court issues notice to PEMRA, others
instead of indian channels, some private channels also telecast foreign contents, ary news and geo news always show something related to Bollywood in headlines, few weeks back when sunjay dutt went to jail they showed it live on tv from more than 40 mins, then for whole week they kept promoting yeh jawani hai deewani. at the end of the day media wohi dehkta hai jo bikta hai.
Re: Foreign serials: Court issues notice to PEMRA, others
There should be some strict action for improvement and news channels always get over-excited for bollywood news. Last month i saw sonakshi 26 ki ho gaein, sonam 28 ki ho gaein, dil karda aey banda jutii la lay te shoru ho jaye.
Hey Raam. 
