Source: The Long War Journal
By Bill Roggio

The Pakistani government has negotiated yet another peace agreement with the Taliban in the tribal agencies bordering Afghanistan. The latest agreement was signed in the Orakzai tribal agency, Geo TVreported.
The agreement mirrors other peace deals that have been signed in the tribal areas and in several settled districts in […]

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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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President Musharraf is seen by some observers and political opponents as having weakened after having shed his uniform as Chief of Army Staff. This, I believe is a myth. Consider the following:
As far as foreign observors are concerned, I think they make their observations based on the opinions expressed in Pakistan and therefore they cannot […]

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Source: The New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — With the notable absence of two hard-hitting political talk shows, Pakistan’s most popular private television news channel was allowed to resume cable broadcasts within the country on Monday, ending a blackout that had lasted more than two months.
The channel, Geo, and other television networks, were taken off the […]

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Source: Reuters
By Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Broadcasts of Pakistan’s private Geo television network resumed in Pakistan on Monday more than two-and-half months after its transmission was blocked following the imposition of a state of emergency.
Geo News and its sister sports channel came back on the air at 6 p.m. (1300 GMT), hours after President Pervez […]

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Source: The News International
Cable operators to connect Geo this evening; viewers can watch from tomorrow morning
ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf on Saturday ordered Geo News and its Sports channel back on the air with immediate effect.
Pakistan’s largest and most popular news network will thus come back to Pakistani homes after an unprecedented absence of […]

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Source: NDTV.com
Pakistan’s private television network Geo TV, whose news channel Geo News was taken off air on Friday midnight on orders from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities, might consider moving out of its Dubai office if a resolution to the problem is not reached soon.”We have got options of moving out of our […]

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