{"id":25044,"date":"2024-02-08T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=25044"},"modified":"2024-02-08T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:08:45","slug":"ecp-gives-pemra-permission-to-prosecute-private-channels-for-violating-the-code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/election-2024\/ecp-gives-pemra-permission-to-prosecute-private-channels-for-violating-the-code-of-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP gives PEMRA permission to Prosecute Private Channels for Violating the Code of Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pemra.gov.pk\/\"> Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority<\/a> (PEMRA) has been directed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take appropriate action against private news channels for airing an interview with a politician on Thursday, in violation of the code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/election-2024-ecp-extends-voting-time-in-these-constituencies.html\">Election 2024: ECP extends voting time in THESE constituencies<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to an ECP spokeswoman, by airing a live interview with a politician on Thursday afternoon, &#8220;Dawn News,&#8221; &#8220;ARY News,&#8221; &#8220;Geo News,&#8221; and &#8220;GNN&#8221; violated both Section 182 of the Elections Act 2017 and the Commission&#8217;s Code of Conduct for National Media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jQcZjX8Qkx\">pic.twitter.com\/jQcZjX8Qkx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spokesperson ECP (@SpokespersonECP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpokespersonECP\/status\/1755491891485807093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite explicit instructions from the ECP, a live conversation with a political leader that aired on the television channel raised concerns that the ECP shared with PEMRA.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP gave the regulator instructions to take action against the channels that engaged in these kinds of violations, including stopping their broadcast and filing a lawsuit against them under Section 10 of the Elections Act of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has been directed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take appropriate action against private news channels for airing an interview with a politician on Thursday, in violation of the code of conduct. Read More:\u00a0Election 2024: ECP extends voting time in THESE constituencies According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11511,9,21,2],"tags":[10297,2343,11625,11626],"class_list":["post-25044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2024","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-election","tag-pemra","tag-code-of-conduct","tag-violating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}