Back المجلس المركزي للرقابة على الأفلام Arabic केन्द्रीय फिल्म अभिवेचन मण्डल Hindi پاکستان مرکزی فلمی سینسر Urdu
| Formation | 1963[1] |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Film Certification |
| Headquarters | Central: Islamabad Punjab: Lahore Sindh: Karachi |
Region served | Central: Punjab: Punjab Sindh: Sindh |
Parent organisation | Central: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Punjab: Government of Punjab Sindh: Government of Sindh |
The Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC; Urdu: مرکزی ہیئت برائے ضوابطِ فلم) is a film censorship board and rating system body under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting for the Government of Pakistan. Since the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan its jurisdiction has been limited to Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Cantonments, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan; with separate censor boards for Punjab (Punjab Film Censor Board, PFCB) and Sindh (Sindh Board of Film Censors, SBFC) headquartered in Lahore and Karachi respectively.[1][2] Though the CBFC maintains an unofficial dominant position over the latter boards.[2]
These boards are tasked with regulating the public screening of films under the provisions of the Motion Picture Ordinance, 1979.
- ^ a b Jawaid, Mohammad Kamran (4 November 2018). "Spotlight: A House Divided". Dawn. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ a b "To Screen or Not to Screen". Newsline. Retrieved 18 March 2020.