Pakistani channel’s top official arrested hours after ban on station for airing ‘seditious’ content
Pakistani tv channel ARY News stated on Wednesday that its senior government vice-president Ammad Yousaf were arrested in Karachi. The channel’s announcement got here simply hours after it became taken off air for being vital of the authorities.
Another motive noted in the back of the pass to dam the channel became that it allegedly aired seditious content. According to ARY News, Yousaf became arrested with out a warrant from his house withinside the DHA place in Karachi.
ARY News in a announcement stated: “Police officers, together with plain-clothed personnel, forcibly entered the residence of Ammad Yousaf. The raiding group diverted the CCTV cameras of Yousaf’s residence, and jumped into the residence from the pinnacle of the primary entrance.”
Earlier, the channel became served a note with the aid of using the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), pointing out that it became taken off the air “for airing objectionable, hateful, seditious, primarily based totally on absolute disinformation with a clean and gift danger to country wide protection with the aid of using instigating insurrection in the military with malafide purpose to motive a rift among the authorities and forces”.
The CEO of the channel has now been requested with the aid of using PEMRA to seem for an in-man or woman listening to on August 10.
