Pakistan’s Punjab province imposes lifetime ban on theatre actors, dancers involved in obscenity

LAHORE: Pakistan’s Punjab government has announced imposing a lifetime ban on actors and female dancers involved in promoting “vulgarity, immorality, and indecency” in theatres.

Licenses of theatres found spreading obscenity will also be cancelled.

“We have decided in principle to impose a lifetime ban on actors and dancers found involved in promoting vulgarity and obscenity during performances in theatre in Punjab province,” Punjab Information and Culture Minister Azma Bokhari declared on Monday. PTI