10-12-2009, 09:45 AM
<b>Geo TV targeted again in dictator-style</b>
Updated at: 1000 PST, Sunday, October 11, 2009
ISLAMABAD:
Geo News and some other TV channels were once again blocked by the PPP government on Saturday afternoon, an action replay of the Musharraf-era.
The action was taken allegedly for âobjectionableâ coverage of the GHQ terrorist attack, but the Pakistan Army officially announced that it had no objection to the coverage and asked the government to reopen the channels.
<b>Geo TV, however, remained shut in the afternoon while three other channels, which were also closed, were reopened shortly</b>.
The government often shuts other channels also as a tactic to show that its action is not discriminatory and specific to one. This tactic was also used during the Musharraf onslaught against the Geo.
Updated at: 1000 PST, Sunday, October 11, 2009
ISLAMABAD:
Geo News and some other TV channels were once again blocked by the PPP government on Saturday afternoon, an action replay of the Musharraf-era.
The action was taken allegedly for âobjectionableâ coverage of the GHQ terrorist attack, but the Pakistan Army officially announced that it had no objection to the coverage and asked the government to reopen the channels.
<b>Geo TV, however, remained shut in the afternoon while three other channels, which were also closed, were reopened shortly</b>.
The government often shuts other channels also as a tactic to show that its action is not discriminatory and specific to one. This tactic was also used during the Musharraf onslaught against the Geo.