Pak HC quashes govt ban on Imran Khan's speeches from TV channels

PEMRA said running any such material was a sheer violation of the authority's laws and judgments of the apex court

A Pakistani high court on Thursday quashed the federal government’s ban on the broadcast of the speeches and press meetings of ousted prime minister Imran Khan from satellite channels.

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) banned the speeches of the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party last week after the cricketer-turned-politician targeted former Army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa in an address to his supporters in Lahore. The Lahore High Court ordered to lift the ban with immediate effect, he said.

Khan’s counsel Barrister Ahmad Pansota argued that the PEMRA issued the impugned order above its jurisdiction without having regard to