Comments on: Breaking News: News TV Channels Off-Aired

By: Saad Durrani

Saad Durrani — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:10:01 +0000

Suprisingly, it was 5:12 PM in Karachi when World Call pulled the plug on all local channels here in Karachi as well. I gues they have a nice network going along.

By: SK

SK — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:44:22 +0000

The CJ has refused to step down.

By: kinkminos

kinkminos — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:18:49 +0000

According to The News website:

“According to the sources, new PCO has been announced to take effect immediately. And the constitution of 1973 has been suspended. Under the PCO, Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has been deposed from his office.”

By: Neena

Neena — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:46:01 +0000

I hear they suspended the CJ too.

By: SK

SK — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:35:41 +0000

It is confirmed, I just got a call from my parents in the Middle East that emergency has been declared in Pakistan (Talat Hussain -Aaj TV Live report), contacted a few more friends who are active in politics and they have confirmed it too. The regional HQ of JI/PML-N have been cordoned off by Rangers/Police. PEMRA has crossed the frequencies in order to completely block the transmissions. More updates soon.

Net is also at a snail’s pace

By: Sumbul

Sumbul — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:27:47 +0000

actually it does return the main page of Geo News with a one liner on its forehead

“HIGH LEVEL MEETING IN PRESIDENCY, GOVT DECIDES TO IMPOSE EMERGENCY IN COUNTRY”

By: Hasan Mubarak

Hasan Mubarak — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:22:16 +0000

It’s not just the Worldcall subscribers, rather, all cable operations have turned these channels off-air… :|

It might again be some sort of a restriction on media-freedom or perhaps, God forbid, much more serious act like imposition of emergency in the country.

By: Claude Almansi

Claude Almansi — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:08:44 +0000

actually, also http://geo.tv/geonews/default.asp gives a page not found

By: A for [pine]apple

A for [pine]apple — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:57:27 +0000

Efficient reporting B-Z .. there’s a broken strong link in here too!!

By: Qasim

Qasim — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:48:21 +0000

Yup, confirmed. I'm in Lahore, the Internet's still working. Geo.tv's headlines show that a high-level meeting's taking place in Islamabad, amid high security. Links: http://geo.tv/geonews/details.asp?id=13297¶m=1 http://geo.tv/geonews/details.asp?id=13298¶m=1 I've got a web-based feed reader(netvibes.com) setup to aggregate feeds from a ton of sources, from daily times to dawn, nytimes, reuters, google news, etc. From all those sources, this blog seems to be the first to report the imposition of a state of emergency.