Pakistan bans Geo TV

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Pakistan bans Geo TV

Pakistan’s state of emergency has seen another popular local channel taken off air.

One of Pakistan’s top Urdu-language channels, Geo TV which transmits from Dubai, was taken off air late on Friday. BBC Monitoring quoted “informed sources” saying Nov 17 that “President Pervez Musharraf himself intervened to stop all GEO news transmissions from Dubai, after a two-week standoff in Pakistan during which all major news channels were shut down by cable operators, who are directly controlled by the Pakistani authorities.”

The BBC report continued, saying: “PML-N [Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz faction] leader Mian Nawaz Sharif told Dr Shahid Masood on telephone from London it was a tragic moment in Pakistan's history as the Musharraf regime was bent upon destroying every symbol of free speech and democracy in the country.”

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