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Cable TV networks go to court over closure

(PPF/IFEX) - The following is a 24 June 2000 PPF press release:

Cable networks go to court over closure

Peshawar: The confusion over the closure of cable networks continued as eight cable networks filed a legal petition in the Peshawar High Court to overturn the sudden closure of the networks last week. The authorities had closed the stations last week for promoting obscenity and immorality.


On Wednesday, the Governor of the province announced his intention to ban the cable networks. However, the very next day, the spokesman for the provincial government clarified that the governor had referred to illegal and pirate networks and not authorised networks.

In their legal petition, cable operators maintain that the cable television networks are licensed by the federal government and the network operators maintain that the provincial government does not have the authority to suspend their operations.