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Government of Pakistan has suspended two weeks Geo News television license as a result of a dispute between the army and the sender. Geo News reported that sued the military intelligence agency ISI. public criticism in Pakistan army is taboo .
Geo News belonging to the Jang media group announced that sued the military intelligence agency, the ISI, accusing her of defamation. ISI has also given two weeks to a public apology for throwing antypaństwowości programs to Geo News.
“Geo and Jang Group doręczyły group lawsuit against the Ministry of Defence, the agency ISI and state-owned media to the regulatory Pemra on defamation and denigration” – said in a TV news published in a newspaper belonging to the Jang Group.
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According to the Jang group “over 8 thousand. journalists, employees and professionals associated with the Jang group and their family members are not only unduly harassed, but also attacked and tortured throughout Pakistan “.
lawsuit telewizja calls for the withdrawal of the defamatory statements, public apology and $ 500 million compensation.
To suspend the license of Geo News by Pemra came after an assassination attempt on April 19 leading presenter of the TV Hamid Mir. Mir in Geo News that ran the most important political program during the attack in Karachi, received six gunshot wounds in the abdomen and legs. According to his brother was behind the bomb military intelligence agency ( ISI), a television station several times repeated this accusation, showing a photo of ISI chief General Zaheerula Islam.
Geo News must also pay a fine of 10 million rupees (about 100 thousand. dollars).
The Ministry of Defence has asked the Pemra to withdraw the license Geo News, which spread indictment of ISI. regulatory authority has not released a media application, but received a copy of the Committee to Protect Journalists and published on the Internet. Ministry accused him Geo News about “false and scandalous campaign “against the ISI and its officers.
According to some observers, the decision Pemra is suppression of freedom of expression in Pakistan and proof that in this country the wojsko does not tolerate criticism.
Before the assassination Mira came to attack in Lahore on the presenter Raze Rumi, Rumi lived, but his driver was killed.
Many journalists of Jang media group since the attack on Mira reported that they receive threats and abusive messages. On Monday, a local correspondent for the daily Jang belonging to the group was severely beaten as he left his office in Multan.
Since the start of the dispute Geo News programs were removed from the antennas in several parts country or transferred under pressure from the army by operators kablówek in unattractive so far – says the lawsuit. newspaper also published by Jang group encountered problems with the distribution.
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