ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Wednesday issued legal notices of Rs50 million damage suit, each to two newspapers and a TV channel of a media group, its Chief Executive and an employee of Balochistan University.
The media group has launched "the image tarnishing and defamatory campaign" against the PEMRA and the Government by trying to deceive the honourable courts as well as public through concocted stories, according to a PEMRA press release issued here.
While responding to storied carried by that media group newspapers on Monday the PEMRA said that Gul Muhammad Kakar was not the employee of the authority but an employee of University of Balochistan and his services were requisitioned by PEMRA on deputation for a period of one year in 2008 and on March 2, 2011 he was relieved from PEMRA and repatriated to Balochistan University, it said.
Kakar has been trying to get himself absorbed in PEMRA permanently and was pressurizing PEMRA through various sources to relax rules in his favour, it added.
Therefore, all the propaganda of Gul Muhammad Kakar through a selected media group is baseless, false and fabricated. Rather, he is pursuing vested agenda of a media group by exhibiting immorality which is in violation of Conduct of a Government employee and it is obligation of Baluchistan varsity to take cognizance of the matter, the press release said.
Gul Muhammad Kakar has now started a malicious propaganda against his repatriation from PEMRA in order to fetch undue and illegal favour as he aimed to induct in PEMRA. He is not only approaching PEMRA through various political figures to retain his services on deputation but has also started threatening and blackmailing PEMRA officers of dire consequences if he is not retained, it said.
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