Burhan Wani
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The federal government has made a decision to ban Ashir Azeem’s filmMaalik across the country.
According to a notification issued on Wednesday, the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting, and National Heritage declared the film ‘uncertified’ according to Section 9 of the Motion Pictures Ordinance, 1979.
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The curious case of the ‘Maalik’ ban
Speaking to The Express Tribune, director Ashir Azeem said he was just informed about the ban by his distributor.
“Even I don’t know why the film has been banned,” he said.
Sources in the federal censor board said the film was banned due to a plethora of public complaints regarding portrayal of Pakistanis in general and country’s politicians in particular.
Earlier, the film was banned for a period of three months by the Sindh Board of Film Censors (SBFC). However, in a stunning turn of events the SBFC went back on their decision, overturning it within the span of a few hours.