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Pakistan bans TV contraceptive adverts
Pakistani authorities have banned all broadcast advertisements for contraceptives.bookmark
BBC
Published at : May 29, 2016
Updated at : May 29, 2016 10:19
Pakistani authorities have banned all broadcast advertisements for contraceptives.
The regulator, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), said there had been public complaints that they prompted curiosity in "innocent children".
Pakistan is a socially conservative country and such commercials were already rare.
Last year a specific advert for Josh condoms was banned as "immoral".
Pakistan, the world's sixth most populous nation, has a lower rate of access to birth control than the average for the region, according to the World Health Organization.