Pressure from Pak behind shutdown: Geo News
Pakistan's private Geo News channel said on Friday that it was shutting down due to pressure from the Pak govt after it refused to bow to curbs on the media imposed after the Emergency.
By PTI |
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's private Geo News channel said on Friday that it was shutting down due to pressure from the Pakistan government after it refused to bow to curbs on the media imposed after the Emergency.
Geo had shifted all its main operations to Dubai following restrictions imposed on media by President Pervez Musharraf.
All Pakistani and foreign private news channels were taken off the airways soon after the Emergency was imposed on November 3.
Most of them were allowed to resume broadcasting on cable TV networks on Thursday after they agreed to adhere to guidelines laid down by the government. But Geo and Ary news channels remained off the air.
Since the imposition of Emergency, Geo had emerged as a key source of information through its broadcast via satellite and on the Internet.
An announcer on Geo said the Pakistan government had succeeded in pressuring foreign authorities to stop the channels and satellite broadcasts from abroad but did not give details.
Geo had shifted all its main operations to Dubai following restrictions imposed on media by President Pervez Musharraf.
All Pakistani and foreign private news channels were taken off the airways soon after the Emergency was imposed on November 3.
Most of them were allowed to resume broadcasting on cable TV networks on Thursday after they agreed to adhere to guidelines laid down by the government. But Geo and Ary news channels remained off the air.
Since the imposition of Emergency, Geo had emerged as a key source of information through its broadcast via satellite and on the Internet.
An announcer on Geo said the Pakistan government had succeeded in pressuring foreign authorities to stop the channels and satellite broadcasts from abroad but did not give details.
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