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^ Then "I may have missed" the apology from Nawaz to JANG (when he went after the news paper with full govt machinery) and from Nawz to ppl of Pakistan (for attacking supreme court) and from BB to Pakistani ppl for getting into power after making a deal with Army in 1988 and from BB to Pakistani and so on .....
As akpower has pointed out, yes u did miss it
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nawaz shareef also apologized to najam sethi when he was picked up from home in the middle of night and he refused to budge
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when politicians make stupid mistakes they pay for them by losing elections or going to jail what about the military dictators, is there any accountibility for them? even yahya khan escaped punishment for his 1971 follies
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As expected low level people in police have to take the blame. One inspector and 13 constables have been suspended for ransacking the GEO office.
These people were merely following the orders, why are they being punished?
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jez.. did anyone catch Altaf hussain’s interview on geo? the guy did his best to do a Talib Johari ashoora majlis
hilarious 
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All the videos available on Jang website:
http://209.41.165.180/important_events/attack_on_geo/pages/video.asp
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im glad this happened because it shows real face of this government!and as for him taking strict actions, against who? those gradde 1 police constables who were following orders?
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yeh ullu ka patha nahee samjhay ga, I dont understand why idiots still support him
PS: i take it back…the support him because they are idiots
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I dont understand why idiots still support him
PS: i take it back...the support him because they are idiots
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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yeah! it was the most pathetic thing heard, what is with this guy…God!
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One has really to applaud the government here. They suspended one inspector and 12 constables. Shoot the messenger. Obviously the constables and the inspector decided to do this on their own. How pathetic. The government is still in denial. This is what Musharraf promised on the action front.
15 Police personnel suspended for attack on Geo Islamabad
**ISLAMABAD , Mar 16 (Online): Fifteen personnel of the Punjab Police have been suspended for attacking Geo Islamabad offices on Friday . **
Their suspension has been affected upon the orders of interior ministry , and they have been accused of forcibly entering the office premises of GEO , Islamabad and indulging in deliberate destruction of the offices . Those who have been suspended include Inspector Khalid Mahmood, and constables Farhat Mahmood, Zahoor Ahmad, Kamran, Iftikhar Shah, Nadeem Abbas, Israr Khan, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Ali, Naseer Ahmad Muhammad Naseer, Faisal Mahmood,and Asif Mahmood. Further action against these officials who have been limited to police lines would be taken after the investigations have been completed. It is pertinent to note that President Musharraf had condemned the attack on GEO TV and had promised to take due action against those responsible.
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As usual ehsan bhai..the lower level poor policemen became "qurbani kai bakray" ...while the big one's who ordered them will remain free...SSP and DSP were standing out to carry this whole operation ....after few months...all these "culprits" will be again on thier seats asthier suspension will prove "false" in an inquiry... the same thing we see time and again !!!!!
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well said :k:
i was wondering if there was a thread on this 
…in general 
PS- does anyone else find altaf hussain weird
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sweet i.f …and no apologize for the malicious attitude towards Pakistan’s most respected personality..tearing his coat…pulling is hairs…pushing his wife while her 19 years old daughter Iffra ..a student of BBA was weeping on the road in front of thousands of people while the whole world is seeing this vulgar drama…no apology 
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Such acts are condemnable and unacceptable. I think Mush, in general, has been able to give more freedom to media than his predecessors, and I don't think Musharraf would order such an attack. But I don't think Nawaz Sharif directly ordered the attack on SC either. This attack may have been 'accidental', but to say that an alleged advertisement ban on Dawn, ban on Kamran Khan ke sath, and the alleged police actions against journalists in Lahore etc are also 'accidental', and the president is oblivious to them is hard to believe. It can be politically expedient for some people to try to distance themselves from what the civil admin. is doing right under their noses, but the buck stops with the chief executive, and if he really thinks that this act was committed by people who were acting without his tacit approval, he should punish the person who ordered this attack.
Journalists are no angels and I have criticized them more than once here, but this is not the way any civilized and controlled state apparatus asserts itself.
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Pakistani riot police trash TV station
Pakistani police fired tear gas, detained opposition leaders and ransacked the offices of a major television station yesterday as protests escalated over the ousting of the country’s top judge.
Riot police smashed into the offices of Geo television in Islamabad after editors refused to stop transmitting pictures of police clashing with stone-throwing protesters. Glass doors were broken and journalists were assaulted by officers who ordered them to remove a rooftop camera with a panoramic view of the street violence.
“Look, this is our government’s freedom of press,” said producer Qaisar Butt, standing amid glass shards in an office that smelled of tear gas.
President Pervez Musharraf later rang the television station to make an unprecedented live apology. “The first thing is that it was a very sad incident. It should have not happened, and I condemn it,” he said, vowing to “take action” against the culprits.
The incident was a measure of how badly government efforts to deflate the judicial crisis are failing. For the past eight days Gen Musharraf has been trying to sack the chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, claiming he is guilty of unspecified charges of misconduct.
But the judge and his swelling brigade of supporters, who have paralysed the courts, say the charges have been cooked up to ensure Gen Musharraf can be easily re-elected as president later this year.
Yesterday hundreds of lawyers and opposition politicians pushed past police barricades and gathered outside the supreme court where a panel of senior judges started disciplinary hearings against Justice Chaudhry, who was greeted with roars of approval.
A government lawyer, who declined to be named, was among the protesters. “This country has very weak institutions, all we have are symbols. Now even the symbols are being destroyed,” he said.
“The government have gone mad, crazy,” said Senator Enver Baig of the Pakistan People’s party. “When the chief justice is being treated like a criminal, what’s happening to this country?”
The crisis is ballooning out of the government’s control and clumsy efforts to curb the fallout have hurt Gen Musharraf’s fragile democratic credentials. Scores of opposition activists have been rounded up in recent days. A source in Lahore said the police had been given a list of lawyers for arrest. Yesterday in Islamabad Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of the Jamaat Islami religious party, was arrested. In Lahore a former president of Pakistan, Rafiq Tarar, was bundled into a police vehicle and driven away.
On Thursday the government media regulator ordered Geo television to take a popular chatshow, which intended to discuss the controversy, off air. “This raises serious questions about how much freedom is allowed when the subject is too close to home,” said Imran Aslam, president of Geo.
**The controversy is taking Gen Musharraf, famous for his boastful self-confidence, into unknown territory. **
Newspaper columnists have drawn parallels with another general turned leader, Julius Caesar, and the ides of March.
“Caesar has shown his face and it is not a pretty sight,” wrote Moeen Cheema in the Daily Times.
**On Thursday the president attended a party thrown by the foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, in Lahore. One socialite who was there described the atmosphere as “a bit like the last days of the Raj”. **
Gen Musharraf’s difficulty is that Justice Chaudhry, despite enormous pressure, refuses to resign. At yesterday’s sitting of the supreme judicial council his lawyers argued that the hearing was biased against him. The next hearing is scheduled for March 21.
Gen Musharraf has promised not to interfere in the process but analysts say it would be unthinkable for him to reinstate an official who has boldly defied him. “He is a general and he is president. He can do whatever he wants,” said SM Shirazi, a protesting lawyer. But the longer the crisis drags on, the more damage it does to Gen Musharraf’s standing at a sensitive time and at the start of an election year.
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boastful self-confidence?
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Chalo jeee…hik or drama:
** ‘No conspiracy’ behind shameful act
**
someone pls remind me…which part of Gambia is Islamabad located in? 
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I think Geo itself was involved in this attack! This incident made Geo the focus of attention then!
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^Nobody has gained from it but Geo...