Islamabad, August 16, 2019: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has banned the airing of all Indian content in forms of television commercials including ads that are Indian and being broadcast in Pakistan or even those that feature any Indian celebrity, Reports The News International.
The decision came in after India abrogated Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
PEMRA in an official statement released on Wednesday said that the “appearance of Indian characters on Pakistani TV screens aggravates miseries of Pakistanis who are perturbed over Indian atrocities on Kashmiri brethren.”
Given the above, PEMRA banned the broadcast of all advertisements featuring Indian individuals by invoking Section 27(a) of the PEMRA Ordinance 2002.