Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Chairman Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmed and Executive Member Rao Tehseen Ali Khan have been stripped of from the administrative powers and a three-member committee has been formed to run the authority.
Decision to this effect was emanated during an important meeting of the PEMRA held here at PEMRA headquarters on Friday.
The meeting was attended by Information Secretary Dr Nazir Saeed, FBR Chairman Tariq Bajwa and PTA Chairman Dr Ismail Shah.
Sources said Saeed presented a report against the PEMRA chairman that was prepared by the fact-finding committee and said the authority has adversely affected due to his policies. During the last two years, the authority has failed to deliver. He said that the government had serious apprehensions over the state of affairs and to improve the performance of the authority it deems necessary to take back administrative powers from the chairman.
Sources said the other members of the authority, supporting the assertion of the secretary information, held Rasheed Ahmed responsible for the dwindling state of the authority and called for revoking all his administrative powers.
Sources also said Ahmed, who was present in the meeting, raised hue and cry over the remarks of the participants of the meeting, terming it a conspiracy and despotism against him and said Tehseen was responsible for the present state of affairs.
Sources said all the participants of the meeting after reviewing the situation unanimously decided to revoke all powers of the PEMRA head and executive member and handed over these power to a three-member committee, comprising Ismail Shah, Pervez Rathore and Israr Abbasi.
This committee will use all the administrative powers and run affairs of the body until a decision about the fate of the PEMRA chairman.
Sources added that there was a chance that the executive member would be sent on forced leave.
