Re: Memory Lane ( Controversies in Pakistan Show-Biz)
that was probably during Nawaz Sharif’s period, when they couldn’t afford to show university girls in jeans and smoking 
Afterwards, in Musharaf’s period PTV came up with Amjad Islam Amjad’s ‘Inkar’ which was also about narcotics and contained many such scenes, for which they banned ‘ek thi guRiya’.
PS: Syed Shakir Uzair was a brilliant directors who had serials like ‘Guest House’, ‘Aagosh’, ‘Mujhe Saans Lene do’ and this half completed ‘Ik thi GuRiya’. Don’t remember watching his work after ban of ‘Ik thi GuRiya’.