Details : Kashmala Khan (@kashmalakhanofficial), the Federal Ombudsperson for the Protection of Women at Workplaces, decided on Thursday that a senior official of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) should be fired and compensated Rs2 million for sexually harassing a female employee. What happened: Kashmala stated in her order that on January 20, 2020, a lady working on a contingency basis at Pemra’s headquarters in Islamabad submitted an online complaint with the ombudsperson accusing one of Pemra’s directors general, Haji Adam, of harassing her. The order quoted the complainant stating that when she denied Adam’s “sexual favours,” he became “rude, unpleasant, and degrading” to her. More: On the other hand, Adam refused the claims made and said that the complainant had wrongly implicated him in the case. Kashmala also found another Pemra official, Fakhruddin Mughal, to be a “facilitator” of Adam, and decided that he, too, would be prosecuted under the 2010 Protection Against Harassment of Women at Work Act. Mughal’s demotion was ordered by Tariq, coupled with a compensation payment of Rs500,000.