{"id":36423,"date":"2024-05-15T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36423"},"modified":"2024-05-16T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:47:15","slug":"dth-television-services-govt-inquires-pemra-for-sending-billions-of-rupees-every-year-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/dth-television-services-govt-inquires-pemra-for-sending-billions-of-rupees-every-year-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"SIFC takes strict notice of delay in launch of DTH services"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), established by the Prime Minister (PM), has taken strict note of not launching of DTH [Direct-to-home] television services in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

As per the details, in a letter, written by the Council to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman [SIFC\u2019s U.O. No. 13\/39\/IT\/DTH\/2024-SEFC], the SIFC Secretariat wrote that the DTH licence bidding process in Pakistan had started in 2004, after which PEMRA re-initiated the bidding process in 2016. Out of three companies, one was successfully granted a DTH services license.<\/p>\n

The company was supposed to start DTH television satellite service within a year of award of the license. However, no national DTH service was commercially launched in the country till date.<\/p>\n

The SIFC asked for calling a meeting of all stakeholders next week to deliberate on the matter.<\/p>\n

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As per the sources in PEMRA said the company, which was given the license for DTH service, had not taken any steps practically so far.<\/p>\n

An application had been submitted by the company for waiver of an amount of over Rs900 million, imposed in the form of various fines.<\/p>\n

The company also sought permission to procure tax-free equipment to start the DTH services in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

According to the sources, the company has not paid crores of rupees to PEMRA for the license and it had not started the service according to the schedule.<\/p>\n

PEMRA had also issued a final notice to the licensee company, Shehbaz International, sources said.<\/p>\n

When contacted the Shehbaz Sky International chief executive officer (CEO) to seek his version, he refused to reply to any questions in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), established by the Prime Minister (PM), has taken strict note of not launching of DTH [Direct-to-home] television services in Pakistan. As per the details, in a letter, written by the Council to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman [SIFC\u2019s U.O. No. 13\/39\/IT\/DTH\/2024-SEFC], the SIFC Secretariat wrote that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2343,9522,9521,16990,16991,139],"class_list":["post-36423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pemra","tag-sifc","tag-special-investment-facilitation-council","tag-dth","tag-dth-television-services","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}