GEO TV License is Disproved.

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Three A’s run Pakistan. Allah, America… the third we all know :cb:

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Public shows their sentiment on real issues. They do sing 'God save the Queen', but they are not worshipers of political parties and are not ready to do away with any injustice even by hands of army or any holy cow. Probably, there is no holy cow :)

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yes . All power to army :biggthumb:

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lol. Talk about throwing judgements. wuts next, namecalling?? Typical PTI troll.

Dude I thought you'd get it easily but since you didnt, let me try to explain more. Wut i've mentioned earlier is not that IK did the whole thing itself. After Army's "blasphemy" by Geo, IK took such a wrong stand out of nowhere and started bycotting and what not, either he was an opportunist, or he was working on a given dictation. You are free to choose either of two.
Now all that just added with Mubasshir Luqman and ARY's propoganda, that lead to a fire from one end to another. It appeard for last few days as if there's no other issue at all except Geo's blasphemy of Army and then the morning show. All that lead to so much pressure that finally 5 members of PEMRA issued the ban notice. Which as per latest news is upheld.
Tomorrow you can say that since the authority is PEMRA, that papa kutni mubasshir luqman has nothing to do with it as well.

Btw, let me reiterate, I was a big fan of IK but his all moves after elections have proved that he's just another rotten politician.

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LOL. How typical!

You've already done what I wasn't even planning of considering next. You have defied your own so called logic with that sentence above.

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people who are shouting for media's freedom plz red the rules, PEMRA doesn't allow speaking against armed forces of country if anyone do licence will be suspended, ab jis ne yeh law banaya ha ja kr uss se laray.

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think whtever you want to think :chai:

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Handful of seasonal anti PTI trolls coming up with blinkered accuses and arguments to put all the blame on Imran because it looks fashionable, but many people actually know or bothered by the fact that PEMRA's constitution doesn't allow any direct attack on Army/ISI. Yes that's the root of all the problem, a set trap for all future trips and falls, and elephant in the room no one wants to look at. Considering PEMRA's constitution, Geo's is in legal trouble, whether anyone likes it or not. This is how law works and this is why in developed countries civilised citizen always root for change of law more than anything. Now I'm sure you'll hear the usual numbo jumbo that it was also Imran who penned that constitution, but I guess that's a price people had to pay for getting a media freedom from a dictator.

People who are whining about Imran "creating pressure" (shock, horror. Treason! Put that yahoodi playboy in the jail because Pakistan is democracy) don't realise that failure of his haters to stop obsessing about him have always majorly contributed towards polarizing his views. Despite him boycotting Geo, his name and image, undoubtedly got the maximum coverage by Geo. LOL They helped advertise Imran's anti Geo stance on their own channel.

People just cannot ignore him, no matter how much they confess their hatred for him, and that's what makes them really frustrated and bitter. The fact that you can't stand the guy yet you can't stop talking about him. It must be a terribly torturous state to be in.

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Must be “jaltey hain armaan mera dil rota hai” for a handful of PTI trolls for whom any criticism of their idol IK is blasphemy.

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ISLAMABAD: The media crisis that has been gripping the nation for a month took a turn for the worse on Tuesday evening when a meeting held by a few members of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) announced the suspension of three licences — Geo News, Geo Entertainment and Geo Tez — of Geo network.
However, after an hour of statements and counter-statements and utter confusion, the management of the authority said that the meeting itself was illegal, adding that any decisions taken by it were null and void.
The chaos and confusion began on Tuesday evening when Pemra member Israr Abbasi, flanked by other members, Mian Shams and Fareeha Iftikhar, announced their decision to the media waiting in front of Pemra headquarters.
Mr Abbasi announced that the Pemra board had decided to suspend the licences of the three television channels owned by the Geo TV network and ordered that the television channels offices be sealed.
However, he added that the final decision on the revocation of the licences will be announced on May 28, when the next Pemra meeting is to be held which will also be attended by government representatives.
Tuesday’s meeting was not attended by any of the seven government officials who are also part of Pemra’s board. Only the private members representing the four provinces and AJK / GB attended the meeting.
[HR][/HR]After suspension of Geo TV licence by three members, Pemra management disowns the decision[HR][/HR]“The Council of Complaints in its meeting held in Karachi today has recommended that the licence of Geo Entertainment be cancelled over its sacrilegious morning show as over 10,000 public complaints were received against it,” Mr Abbasi said, adding that “another complaint has already been received from the ministry of defence against Geo News.”
Geo’s legal troubles include one complaint against the manner in which it accused the ISI of being involved in the attack on journalist Hamid Mir and the morning show which is seen to have hurt religious sentiments.
“All members unanimously decided that the licence for Geo News be cancelled. However, due to a legal formality that could not be completed, we have sent our recommendations to the Council of Complaints, advising that they respond before May 28, the date for our next meeting,” Mian Shams told the media during the briefing.
In the media blitz that followed the Pemra members insisted that their decision was legal and that the channels would have to shut down at midnight.
Fareeha Iftikhar, another member, said that the meeting was legal and the required quorum, under clause 4 of Pemra Ordinance, of one third members had been met – according to her, five out of 12 members attended the meeting.
“In the absence of the chairman, the board is the authority that can take such decisions,” she argued, adding that “Geo will be shut down from tonight and if the channel management does not abide by the board decision, we will approach the courts.”
However, it was not long before another announcement was made, taking the wind out of the assertions made by the five members who attended the Pemra meeting.
A statement issued on the directives of Executive Member Kalimuddin Tipu disowned the decisions announced by Mr Abbasi and others.
This statement was later sent to the press from the government’s Public Information Department, making it clear which side the government stood with.
“It is also clarified that today’s meeting was called without following the laid down procedures and thus had no legal standing. According to Rule 3(4) of Pemra Rules 2009, the Chairman or… at least 07 members can call a meeting. This was an informal meeting attended by five members,” the Pemra press release said.
The spokesman of Pemra said that the decision had no legal validity. It was further pointed out that a meeting could not be held till the law ministry responded.
“The meeting was to be held after legal opinion had been received from the law ministry, as was decided in the last meeting held on May 9.”
This view was later upheld by the Information Minister, Pervez Rashid, who also holds the law portfolio.
He told Dawn that a meeting could only be called by any two of the three member committee headed by Pervaiz Rathore.
“Incidentally, Pervaiz Rathore and Ismail Shah were missing and Mr Israr Abbasi had already resigned from this committee so how could he have called a board meeting,” the minister added.
At the last meeting, Mr Abbasi had walked out and threatened to quit because his suggestions were being ignored.
However, Mr Israr Abbasi continued to stick to his guns and insist that the meeting was legal.
Mir Shakeel moves IHC
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Geo TV, Mir Shakeelur Rehman, moved the Islamabad High Court on Tuesday for quashment of an FIR registered against him for alleged blasphemy and terrorism for airing controversial contents.
Following an order passed by an additional district and sessions judge on May 17, Margalla Police of Islamabad had registered the FIR against Mr Rehman, Geo TV anchor Shaista Lodhi, actress Veena Malik and her husband Asad Bashir Khattak for allegedly profaning holy personages in a programme aired on May 14.
In his petition, Mr Rehman stated that after the airing of the programme, Ms Lodhi apologised more than 26 times; on the contrary a rival channel, ARY News, repeated the same programme over 60 times.
The petitioner stated that because blasphemy laws have become more stringent, there was a tendency to label the accusation of blasphemy by Muslims against Muslims for settling their scores.
He said that he did not play any role in script writing, production or direction of the said episode even then he has been implicated in the case.
The single-judge IHC bench of Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui will hear the matter on Wednesday.
*Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2014

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^ Keep imagining IK as an "idol" and keep flattering yourself with a thought of committing blasphemy. I can't give rat's ass even if I want to it.

Have a field day with your signature anti PTI trolling, but try not to whine when it gets countered.

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the decision by PEMRA will be thrown out on May 28 because the no governmental representative was present and now PEMRA is distancing itself from it's own members' decisions.

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I am not the one whining here, read the previous pages and there is only one person who has been whining throughout. Guess who it is? No more replies from me to you.

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SID_NY, I knew he'd take the take cake.

Whizz away man, do I care about you not replying to my posts. Like I said, keep imagining IK is my "idol" and flattering yourself with a thought of committing blasphemy through your opportunistic antipathy. I might decide to pay a heed when you come up with something a little more clever and remotely insulting.

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Looks like someone got an electric shock trying to chori bijli, probably because of steep hills

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IK is an agitator & not a leader and agitators getting attention shouldn't be surprising (like a circus clown). And the reason we keep talking about him is b/c of his agitation/hypocrisy. He was appalled that GEO went after ISI (ISI is a mafia wing of the military) but had no courage to condemn beheading of Pakistani troops by his jiahid friends. His party is ruling the province & when teenager stops homicidal terrorists from killing everyone in school...PTI failed to recognized a national hero, but IK shut down entire country when mass murderer scumbag was taken out by drone.

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manhoos aadmi. fasad ki jaR :aj:

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wow wow clapping for you, keep trolling guys enjoy, you guys are obsessed with IK .

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aazadi e izhar k right ke liye shukriya :chai: :samosa: :khumar:

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Oh great! Now where do I get my daily fix of sensational Bollywood gossip or the dwarf marriage fluff pieces.