Central Board of Film Censors

Central Board of Film Censors
Punjab Film Censor Board
Sindh Board of Film Censors
Formation1963 (1963)[1]
PurposeFilm Certification
HeadquartersCentral: 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.

  1. ^ a b Jawaid, Mohammad Kamran (4 November 2018). "Spotlight: A House Divided". Dawn. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b "To Screen or Not to Screen". Newsline. Retrieved 18 March 2020.

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