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Pakistani Military Flexes Muscles Again: Journalist Hamid Mir Taken Off Air Post Criticism
On Monday, senior Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was stopped from hosting his talk show Capital Talk by the Geo News channel after he criticised the military.
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On Monday, senior Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was stopped from hosting his talk show Capital Talk by the Geo News channel after he criticised the military establishment. He has been sent on forced leave and another anchorperson will host the five-day-a-week show for now. Mir came under the scanner after he delivered a fiery speech at a protest on May 28 in the wake of the attack on fellow journalist Asad Toor. Three assailants who identified themselves as ISI agents barged into Toor s Islamabad apartment on May 25 and assaulted him.
In this file photo, PPP Senator Sherry Rehman addresses the Senate. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday expressed concern over the government’s plan to establish the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) through an ordinance and vowed to resist it with full force, terming it an attempt to gag the media in the country.
In a statement, PML-N information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb declared the government’s move to establish the PMDA through an ordinance an “unconstitutional step” and in conflict with Article 19 of the Constitution which guaranteed freedom of expression and a free media in the country.
Opposition vows to resist steps to gag media
Pakistan Press Foundation
01 Jun 2021, 18:39 GMT+10
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People s Party (PPP) on Monday expressed concern over the government s plan to establish the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) through an ordinance and vowed to resist it with full force, terming it an attempt to gag the media in the country.
In a statement, PML-N information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb declared the government s move to establish the PMDA through an ordinance an unconstitutional step and in conflict with Article 19 of the Constitution which guaranteed freedom of expression and a free media in the country.