Saqib Ali Haidri
Muzaffarabad:
Breaches of National Action Plan NAP have been observed in the sensitive capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Illegal channels with Indian content promoting hatred and intolerance. Unlawful cable news channels are runned by different cable operators in Muzaffarabad for their cable marketing without jurisdiction of any legal institution and Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority PEMRA have no supervision/monitoring on them due to geographical situation in Azad Kashmir.
National Action Plan NAP has been implemented in whole Pakistan including Azad Kashmir to cope with terrorism but voilation of NAP clauses 5 and 11 have been noticed so far by one of the cable news channel “Capital News” in capital of AJK.
NAP clause 5 clearly indicates strict action against the literature, newspapers and magazines promoting hatred, extremism, sectarianism and intolerance. The said channel on aired many Indian content, recent breach was of Indian cartoons showed Indian Police uniform and Indian fuehrer’s photo Mahatma Gandhi in their office premises lead children to ask their parents about Indian culture.
A son of a Mr. Rafiq (a civilian) asked his father, “Why do we put Quaid e Azam picture while in Motu Patlu Cartoons they put Gandhi glimpse in their office” made mr. Rafiq astonished how to explain his 6 years old son that Kashmiris are struggling for liberation from India.The said channel also favored and promoted religious hatred when a fake pir (faith healer), accused of blackmailing many women after raping and filming them, who is in police custody by a trial court in the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
While on the other hand, as matter of law the employees of capital news are getting salaries between 5 to 7 thousand only for the last 4 years and no any implementation of labor has been noticed so far by the government.
Under the national action plan this channel was banned by concerned authority but it is still working after taking stay order from court.
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