Pakistan lifts ban on Geo TV chat show
Islamabad, March 19 (PTI): Mending fences with the media after the police raid on Geo TV headquarters last week, Pakistan Government has lifted the ban on a chat show of the channel.
President Pevez Musharraf, who had apologised for the police action on March 16, would appear on the programme tonight.
The ban on "Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Saath (Today with Kamran Khan)" a chat show hosted by Geo's Senior Editor Kamran Khan was imposed on March 15 as the programme continuously focused on the crisis arising out of the suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikar Muhammad Chaudhry.
The next day, despite the ban, Khan again anchored a programme coordinating the coverage of the riotous situation that prevailed outside the apex court during the appearance of Chaudhry before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).
As his show was on, a posse of policemen, who were battling rampaging crowds outside, barged into the network's office close to Parliament and the apex court and began breaking glasses and beating up staffers.
The channel's journalists also alleged that police fired tear gas shells into the office.
Musharraf spoke live to the same channel later and apologised for the attack and later 14 policemen were suspended the same night for raiding the channel's office.
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