A senior professional of Pakistani information channel ARY Information used to be arrested on Wednesday hours after the station used to be taken off air for airing ‘seditious’ content material.
ARY Information Channel’s Vice President Ammad Yosuaf (Twitter/@AmmadYosuaf)
Pakistani tv channel ARY Information mentioned on Wednesday that its senior govt vice-president Ammad Yousaf were arrested in Karachi. The channel’s observation got here simply hours after it used to be taken off air for being important of the federal government.
One more reason cited in the back of the transfer to dam the channel used to be that it allegedly aired seditious content material. In keeping with ARY Information, Yousaf used to be arrested with no warrant from his place of abode within the DHA space in Karachi.
ARY Information in a observation mentioned: “Law enforcement officials, together with plain-clothed group of workers, forcibly entered the home of Ammad Yousaf. The raiding workforce diverted the CCTV cameras of Yousaf’s area, and jumped into the home from the highest of the principle front.”
Previous, the channel used to be served a realize through the Pakistan Digital Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), mentioning that it used to be taken off the air “for airing objectionable, hateful, seditious, in response to absolute disinformation with a transparent and provide danger to nationwide safety through instigating rise up throughout the military with malafide intent to purpose a rift between the federal government and forces”.
The CEO of the channel has now been requested through PEMRA to seem for an in-person listening to on August 10.
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