Dr Shahid Masood's TV show banned for 30 days

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Tuesday suspended TV anchor Dr Shahid Masood and his programme on a private TV channel for a month.

The country's media regulatory body also imposed a fine of Rs1 million on the private TV channel over baseless allegations against military and federal ministers, a PEMRA statement said.

It also said that the private TV channel was given two opportunities to protect its case but it failed to justify their position by not providing any evidence of the alleged meeting.

"The official record of PEMRA confirms that Shahid Masood is a willful and violator of PEMRA Code of Conduct and had been trying to create sensationalism thorough his irresponsible, untrue and derogatory comments against individual and the state institutions in the past as well," the regulatory authority added in its remarks.

Last month, PEMRA issued a show cause notice to the same TV channel over content of Dr Shahid Masoods show.