PEMRA suspends landing rights permission to Starlite for seven days

JournalismPakistan.com
October 03, 2017

ISLAMABAD – Electronic media regulator PEMRA has suspended landing rights permission to private TV channel Starlite for seven days after it aired a vulgar song.

This decision came during a meeting of the authority at the PEMRA headquarters in Islamabad Tuesday. The meeting approved the recommendation of its Personal Hearing Committee in this regard.

The regulator said the objectionable content was aired on June 13.

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