New Delhi: Pakistan Government has lifted the ban it had imposed on a chat show programme of Geo TV—the channel that faced assault by Pak police attempting to stop channel’s coverage of the riotous situation prevailing outside country’s apex court on Saturday.
Interestingly Pak President Pervez Musharraf would appear on the chat show broadcast Monday night. The ban on Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Saath (Today with Kamran Khan) 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.
Mending fences with the media after the police raid on Geo TV headquarters last week, President Pervez Musharraf had apologised for the police action.
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 before barging in 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.
With excerpts from PTI
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