Pakistan’s Geo TV broadcast stopped, suspected to be in the army

Pakistan’s longstanding disputes between military and civilian institutions And it’s coming continuously. It was again revealed that it was published. Because the broadcast of Geo TV, one of the biggest television networks in the country, is almost closed. Channel broadcasts closed in 80 percent of Pakistan’s area. However, the indication is that the army is behind it.

There are discussions in Pakistan that this may be happening in the television industry due to the promotion of programs that are not acceptable to the powerful army at the time. Many people say that the army is in the hands of the Geo TV broadcasting. It is said in a report of the Times of India. However, the exact information of who is actually behind the broadcast of Geo TV broadcasting (80 percent of the broadcast in the area) is not known.

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said that none of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Parma) and the Ministry of Information have given an order to stop the broadcast of the TV.

However, CEO of Geo TV Network Mir Ibrahim Rahman said, “Our TV broadcast is closed in 80 percent of the country.” But he did not talk about who or who was responsible for this.

In the first week of March, the broadcast of Geo TV started suddenly closing. At that time the country’s army and its adjoining residential areas were closed on television broadcasting. According to media reports, in early April, cable operators blocked all channels including news channels, entertainment, and sporting channels, all over the country, cable operators shut down all over the country. According to Parma data, notice of cable operators has not been given to obstruct the broadcast of Geo.

Jass group’s senior journalist analyst Fasihur Rehman Khan told The Times of India, “Perma has issued the notice. The matter was heard in the High Court. But no one knows how to legalize the condition or bring it back to normalcy. Controlling the media in front of an invisible hand of the country, whom they appear to be visually helpless and powerless. The invisible hand is another kind of powerful man. ‘

Geo Network is promoting critical financial reporting on terrorism and Pakistan’s position. The country’s army has become unhappy.

Media reports say recent reports have criticized Pakistan’s army chief General Kamar Javed Bajwa, his internal and foreign policies. The officers of the army were unhappy.

The Committee for Protected Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern about the stoppage of Geo TV broadcasting in Pakistan and the rights of journalists in the following situation. Steven Butler, a coordinator of the Asia Committee on the Committee, said in a statement that direct threats to the rights to be heard in the Constitution of Pakistan, which has stopped the broadcast of Geo TV, are directly threatened. The authorities are not able to find the names of who is behind it. Or the authorities are afraid to say their names.