The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Saturday directed TV channels to exercise caution while reporting about the Kasur sex abuse scandal.
In a statement issued by PEMRA headquarters in the capital, the regulatory body advised TV channels to report about the scandal in a responsible manner saying, “The faces of the victims and the parents should not be shown and neither should their identities be revealed.”
PEMRA said in the statement it has asked TV channels not to give graphic details of what happened in the serial child abuse scandal.
The media regulatory body said the “victims have been through enough trauma already and their wounds should not be scratched further by media instead of healing them”.
PEMRA advice seems unobjectionable. It should be followed without reservation.
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