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Pemra disowns members' decision to suspend Geo licences
 [DAWN] The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Tuesday disowned the decisions announced by its three members regarding cancellation of licences of three television channels owned by the Geo TV network.Geo's critical of the Mighty Pak Army. Therefore it needed shut down. Most of the pols in Pakistain played dog-pile-on-the-rabbit. In a press statement issued here, the media regulatory body referred to the media talks held by three private members -- Israr Abbassi, Mian Shams and Fareeha Iftikhar -- in front of Pamra headquarters earlier today. The members of the committee had announced the suspension and also ordered that Geo TV offices be sealed down. Even though Geo needed shut down to unbunch the national panties, there seems to be some dim realization that Pakistain's free press is demonstrably not free. Appearances aren't being kept up and they can't think up something to explain it all away or blame it on India. A spokesman for the regulatory body had also said in a statement that the meeting called today had no legal validity "since it was not called officially in spirit of Rule 3(4) of Pemra Rules 2009." "So, really, they're shut down, but not officially shut down." According to the Pemra rules listed on its website, a meeting of the regulatory body can be convened on the request of at least one half of its total membership. Posted by: Fred 2014-05-21 |
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