"Political parties display banners on leaders’ birth or death anniversaries,
campaigns and donation appeals,"
Sindh Outdoor Advertisers Association general secretary
Aamir Siddiqui. DESIGN: ESSA MALIK
Reluctant to offer their spaces to the political parties, advertising firms in Karachi have gone to court seeking enforcement of a ban on their outdoor advertisement sites, saying the groups avail the service without paying.
The Sindh Outdoor Advertisers Association (SOAA), a representative body of the outdoor advertising agencies, which buys spaces from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s advertisement department on prescribed fees, has taken the chief election commissioner, the provincial election commissioner, the secretaries of local government and home departments, the Karachi commissioner and administrator and the executive officers of Faisal and Karachi cantonment boards to the Sindh High Court.
Different political, religious and other groups illegally occupy outdoor advertisement sites belonging to the association’s members in Karachi without seeking their permission or paying the rent, submitted SOAA general secretary Aamir Siddiqui in the petition.
Without naming any group, the petitioner claimed that some groups had been occupying the outdoor sites for nearly four years now.
In February 2009, the then city government had issued a public notice through newspapers directing all parties to use pole-mounted banners only for three to seven days. “The authorities have failed to implement this direction, resulting in massive financial losses to the advertisers,” Siddiqui added.
The plaintiff appealed to the court to direct the local government and cantonment authorities to remove the “illegal” banners from commercial sites.
After hearing the preliminary arguments on Tuesday, the court issued notices to the respondents to file their comments by January 31.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 10th, 2013.
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Yes like PPP captured all sign board on Shahrah-e-Faisal on Benazir's death anniversary ..
On some billboards, the face of the party leader is much smaller than the person who claims to support them.
The political parties, with no exception, continue to do this with total impunity - justified mentally that any attempt to prevent them from doing so would result in dire consequences. So who holds the parties accountable - easy answer : no one.
all Political boards should be REMOVED
true & then they say we have no money all wrong use of POWER . just look at the boat basin road to bilawal house all boards of them & their family we all know who their family is why advertise it