Try the following....

make sure your start with a widescreenpreset in Premiere Pro.
Import your mpg.
Right click on the MPG file (I think) and select interpret as and make sure you 'remind' premiere pro it is 16:9 (i.e. non-square pixels).
As long as it all inside a widescrene project then it should be fine.

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