The former chairman of Pemra has said in the affidavit that the former DGC Faiz Hameed kept putting pressure on Pemra, he also put pressure on the TV channels.
In the affidavit, he has further said that former DGC Faiz Hameed pressed for action against Najam Sethi and said that Hussain Haqqani should be completely banned but despite the pressure we did not follow his instructions.
According to the former chairman of Pemra, in April 2017, I informed the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and Supreme Court Chief Justice Saqib Nisar in writing about the entire situation that the instructions were not implemented. PEMRA officials will not be punished due to
Absar Alam has said that during the Faizabad sit-in on November 25, he shut down a TV channel on the request of the Interior Ministry, after which Faiz Hameed and his subordinates called me three times as the chairman of PEMRA. Why was the private TV channel closed?
Faiz Hameed and his subordinate officials said that either private TV broadcasts should be opened or all TV channels should be stopped.
The former chairman Pemra has said in the affidavit that I did not obey any illegal order, the channels were closed in the light of the written policy instructions of the federal government.