During question hour in NA, Minister of State for Information said present government is focusing to revive the Pakistani film industry to reduce foreign contents.
The National Assembly was informed that the government is going to launch a policy to encourage indigenous film production in the country.
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Corporation Marriyum Aurangzeb told the House during question hour that the present government is focusing to revive the Pakistani film industry to reduce foreign contents.
The Minister of State said there is no official ban on the state-censored and regulated public exhibition of Indian feature films in the cinema houses under the Motion Pictures Ordinance, 1979.
She said the existing policy framework of the federal government to all exhibitions of foreign cinematographic films in Pakistani cinemas is consistent to the policy approved by the then Prime Minister in 2007.
She said the Central Board of Film Censors has the power to cut the contents which are against our social norms and national interest.
