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New Delhi: Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog on Saturday prohibited television channels from broadcasting or rebroadcasting ousted premier Imran Khan’s speeches or media talks, saying airing such content is likely to create hatred among the people and endanger national security. The Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) warned that it will suspend the broadcasting licence in case of any violation, news agency PTI reported.
“In case of any violation, the observed licence may be suspended without any show-cause notice in the public interest along with other enabling provisions of law,” it said in a notification. It also said that Khan during his long march speeches and a day ago in an address from the hospital “made aspersions against the state institutions by levelling baseless allegations for orchestrating an assassination plan”.
According to the media watchdog, airing such content violated several laws and was likely to create “hatred among the people” and is prejudicial to the maintenance of law and order or was likely to disturb public peace and tranquillity or endanger national security.
Khan, 70, suffered a bullet injury in the right leg when two gunmen fired a volley of bullets at him in the Wazirabad area of Punjab province on Thursday, where he was leading a protest march against the Shehbaz Sharif government.
Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, alleged in his address to the nation on Friday from a hospital that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Major General Faisal Naseer were part of a sinister plot to assassinate him in the same way as former Punjab governor Salman Taseer was killed in 2011 by a religious extremist.
Notably, this is the second time that PEMRA took action against the airing of Khan’s speeches. In August, the same regulator imposed a ban on broadcasting Khan’s live speeches on all satellite TV channels with immediate effect. However, in September, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) overturned the ban.
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