NOTICE SENT TO PAKISTANI CHANNEL FOR AIRING ‘HATE SPEECH’ AGAINST PM SHARIF

Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog has issued a notice to a TV channel for airing “hate speech” against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Friday asked the ARY News channel to respond to the notice by March 31. According to reports, a guest speaker who appeared on a programme The Reporter on Thursday, termed a recent statement of Sharif as “blasphemous”. “This is a very dangerous trend. The hosts of the programme neither intervened on this occasion nor stopped him from passing such comments, which is a violation of PEMRA rules,” the media watchdog said.