The Supreme Court has ordered Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (PEMRA) chairman to take measures to stop obscenity on TV channels.
While hearing a letter filed by justice (retd) Wajihuddin and former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Kazi Hussain Ahmed against obscenity aired on TV channels, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed on Monday that TV channels are “spreading vulgarity” and Pemra is doing nothing to prevent it.
A three members bench including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was hearing the case. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry slammed media and the regulatory authority saying that some TV shows which were aired solely for the purpose of maligning the judiciary.
While observing that TV channels now air press conferences and programmes against the judiciary, the Supreme Court ordered the Pemra acting chairman to pull out the record related to such programmes and bring it before the court in the next hearing.
The Court fined 17 different TV channels over vulgarity and other issues but they sought stay orders from the courts, CJ added.
Later, the court directed Chairman PEMRA to halt all the vulgar content on any Television channel and present a report within a week.
CJ orders action over obscenity on Pakistani TV channels
