Source: PK Politics
AAJ TV is reporting firing on their van after they left from the Rawalipindi Bar Council meeting.
AAJ TV Reports:
Aaj TV coverage team faced wild Firing at Dhok Hafiz here today. According to Aaj news when coverage team reached the traffic signal two motorcyclists asked the driver to stop the van but the driver […]

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Source: The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s elections were supposed to usher in democracy after eight years of military rule, but for Talat Hussain life doesn’t look much different. Every time his TV station tries to air shows critical of President Pervez Musharraf, the screen goes black.
Pakistan’s main opposition parties announced they would form […]

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Source: BBC
By Mazhar Zaidi
(BBC Urdu service)
On his recent tour of Europe, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf argued that “he is a soldier who is committed to principals of democracy”.

Many involved in Pakistan’s TV news programmes disagree.
By the time Mr Musharraf lifted six weeks of emergency rule last December, most of the TV news channels were […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
In a country where extremists rage against the cosmopolitan, Ali Saleem dons the persona — and sari — of a flirty middle-aged widow for a TV talk show watched by everyone from models to mullahs.
By Bruce Wallace
January 21, 2008
Out of costume but not out of character, one of Pakistan’s hottest TV stars […]

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