ISLAMABAD – The Islamabad High Court has summoned a number of TV presenters and the management of different television channels to appear in person in a contempt case tomorrow (Wednesday).
The TV hosts, belonging to TV One, ARY, GEO, BOL News and Filmazia, include Sahir Lodhi, Nabeel Zafar, Fahad Mustafa and Amir Liaquat Husain.
The constitutional court issued these directions in response to the contempt of court petition filed by Muhammad Waqas Malik advocate through his counsel Inamul Rahim, alleging the TV channels were violating the IHC order dated May 9 wherein they were directed to follow the PEMRA guidelines for Ramazan transmissions.
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A single bench of Judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui IHC issued show cause notices to the said respondents, saying why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against them.
The court has also directed, Director General (DG-Operations) Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to also appear before the court.
The petitioner has contended that on May 9 order the IHC bench had issued certain declarations and directions to regulate the advertisements dramas and other TV programs as per the Islamic code of life.
In the said order, the IHC bench had imposed a complete ban on advertisement, dramas and films of foreign origin, Indian in Pakistan. And it was also directed that “No program suggestive of containing lottery and gambling, even apparently for the noble purpose like Hajj/Umrah tickets etc shall be promoted to air either live or recorded. The program like Neelam Ghar and those appear to be like circus show must be stopped”.
