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| Pak govt turns its ire on media for covering protests | | | ISLAMABAD, MAR 13
Amid spiralling protests against the sacking of Supreme Court Chief Justice, Pakistan government has turned its ire on the media for its coverage of the events, blacking out two popular TV channels for hours and stepping up pressure on managements to sack their anchors.
"I am mentally prepared that today is the last day of my show as I am personally aware of the pressure being exhorted on my management," Hamid Mir, who anchors the popular 'Capital Talk' programme on Geo TV, told PTI here.
Geo TV and its arch rival Aaj TV were "banned" yesterday and the two channels went out off the air for several hours after they declined the instructions from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, (PEMRA) to stop coverage of the bloody lathi-charge on the agitating lawyers in which several of them including opposition Pakistan People Party (PPP) Senator and Advocate Lathif Khan Khosa sustained head injuries.
Photographs of bleeding Khosa flashing a victory sign with his blood soaked hands were splashed on front pages of the newspapers today.
President Pervez Musharraf sacked Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftakar Muhammad Choudhary on charges of"misconduct and misuse" of authority on March 9, six years before his term was to end, and a judicial panel will hear charges against him.
Mir an editor of Urdu daily turned anchor said he has already told his colleagues in the office that they should be prepared for the bad news.
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