By Darwaish
Another unfortunate development of the day and I am unable to understand who is advising government of making such foolish decisions.
It seems now that the Government of Pakistan has banned Kamran Khan Show as yet another casualty in the ongoing saga of the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s (CJP) removal from office. Geo has just made it public and Kamran Khan appeared on Geo News just a few moments ago and apologized to viewers that he would not be able to present his show due to this ban (audio of what he said, here).
It was Kamran Khan Show in which Mr Wasi Zafar’s misbehavior on VOA was reported (video of that program here). He was also the host of Geo’s live transmission which showed and commented on the misbehavior with Chief Justice of Pakistan and his family last Monday. I guess Kamran Khan has finally paid the price of speaking the truth and his efforts to present facts to the people of Pakistan.
GEO TV website has this information on how the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has banned this show:
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has imposed ban on “Aaj Kamran Khan Key Sath”, the famous programme of Geo Television Network.
“Aaj Kamran Khan Key Sath” has been stopped as the government has imposed ban on it, said the spokesman of the Geo Television Network.
It was regretted at 11:05 PM, when this programme starts daily, that the programme could not be aired due to government ban.
Reacting to the ban on this programme, Kamran Khan, the host of the programme, condemned the government action and said that there was no other agenda of the said programme except making people aware of real facts and correct analysis.
This is a direct attack on freedom of press and freedom of expression. Looks like we will now see more bans if Pakistani Media didn’t cooperate with the government. I am also wondering what will happen to the Ansaar Abbasi now. We should all condemn this unjust action? But HOW?
Here are two samples of video clips from the Kamran Khan Show related to this issue.
Here is GEO’s own report on the attack on its office.
Message from Altaf Hussain on attack on GEO office.
Hamid Mir interviews Gen. Musharraf on the attack.
President Pervez Musharraf appears on Geo TV’s famous program ‘Aaj kamran Khan Ka Saath’.
Click here to listen to the voice recording of the program.
now Musharaf aka MUSH today wants to appear in same show so that program in unbanned. All people will witness today the lies of our non constitutional president. The stubborn ruler who has taken all of our nation’s honor and worth and pushing Pakistan to more dark side with his foreign policies and so is Shaukat Aziz , who being economist can only audit his own bank account , how much money he has looted from pakistan from privatization jokes with a nation.
I would rather call him ShahenSha-e-Jazbat!
:D
The way altaf said “Kiya karhee hey Hakoomat”, it reminded me famos dialogue “Kahan se Ayee Joomkay, Kisney diya ye Jhoomkey” from an old Pakstani movie :>
If there is a category of Political Actors then atlaf could win the first oscar for Pakistan.
Readers, we have added two new videos at the end of the post.
The first is an interview of MQM leader Altaf Hussain on GEO TV.
The second is Hamid Mir interviewing Gen. Pervez Musharraf on the GEO office attack, where the President condemns the attack and promises retribution.