LAHORE: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has proposed a two-year ban on the screening of Indian movies for the revival of Pakistani cinema.

Talking to reporters at the curtain-raising ceremony of Marcon-2017 organised by the Marketing Association Pakistan here on Thursday, Mr Sadiq said the Pakistani film industry had a potential to get on its feet, provided that there should not be screening of Indian movies for at least two years.

Indian movies are not being screened here since last October because of rising tension between Pakistan and India.

Ayaz Sadiq said there could not be peace in the region until the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.

To a question about differences among political parties over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), he said the government had formed a CPEC committee under Mushahid Hussain to reach out to all political parties to evolve a consensus on it.

He said any country investing in another country would watch its interest. China was also doing the same in the case of the CPEC investment, he added.

When asked about the Panama case, Mr Sadiq said the case was in the Supreme Court. However, he added, just as India had resorted to firing on the Line of Control (LoC) to deviate the world’s attention from Kashmir, politicians were raising Panama case to cloud the PML-N government’s steps taken for economic progress.

He said the government had overcome terrorism and loadshedding of electricity would also end soon.

Published in Dawn, December 9th, 2016