ISLAMABAD – The federal government has decided to disband PakistanElectronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and decided to establish awatchdog. The Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhary announced thison Thursday.
Chaudhary said the government was abolishing Pemra and replacing it with anew authority with extensive powers that would regulate print, electronicand social media.
“The freedom enjoyed by the Pakistani media can be easily compared withdeveloped countries. The current challenges faced by media today are theresult of its own defaulted business plan,” the minister said whileaddressing a conference on ‘National Security, Nation-building and MassMedia’ in Islamabad.