Central Board of Film Censors

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. Though the CBFC maintains an unofficial dominant position over the latter boards.

This article is about the Pakistani film censorship board. For the Indian counterpart previously known by this name until 1983, see Central Board of Film Certification. For other uses, see CBFC.

Central Board of Film Censors
Punjab Film Censor Board
Sindh Board of Film Censors
Formation1963 (1963)
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

These boards are tasked with regulating the public screening of films under the provisions of the Motion Picture Ordinance, 1979.

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