Pakistan has banned broadcast advertisements for all contraceptives, including birth control and family planning products.<\/p>\n
The national regulator, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PERMA), said on May 28 that there had been public complaints that the advertisements prompted curiosity in “innocent children.”<\/p>\n
“The general public is very much concerned about the exposure of such products to the innocent children, which get inquisitive on features and use of the products,” PERMA said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Television channels and radio stations that do not comply with the ban will face “legal action under PEMRA laws,\u201d the statement said, although no specific punishment was mentioned.<\/p>\n
The ban comes despite a government initiative to encourage birth control in Pakistan, a conservative Muslim country of 180 million people where discussing sex in public is taboo.<\/p>\n
Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, with a population growth rate of 1.92 percent, according to the government. Its population is projected to increase to more than 227 million by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan has banned broadcast advertisements for all contraceptives, including birth control and family planning products. The national regulator,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n