Pakistan’s leading television news channel has gone off the air in army cantonments and is facing interruptions in other areas across the country, its management said on Monday.
The partial blockade of the country’s most viewed private channel comes amid reports that the powerful military is seeking to silence criticism of its alleged political role.
“Our broadcast is interrupted … in most areas, almost 80 per cent of the country,” said the Geo network’s president, Imran Aslam.
“It is like economic strangulation,’’ he said.
Geo is seen as sympathetic towards former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, who was removed by the country’s Supreme Court for alleged corruption that also involved his family.
Analysts say Sharif might have been the target of collusion between the generals and judges for calling for a civilian administration’s supremacy in a…
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