Desperate Geo Looks To India

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Such are the attempts being made by GEO TV when on Tuesday, it urged the leading media houses of India including Zee News to extend an arm of help in the face of their ban in Pakistan.

Geo has asked these Indian media houses to ‘move the Pakistani establishment including President Musharraf for the restoration of GEO’s services’.In a letter sent by the group, it informed Indian media about the atrocities and hardships that media is facing after the imposition of Emergency in Pakistan on Nov 3, 2007.

They requested Indian media to take their cause to the world and continue the coverage of incidents in Pakistan through establishing contact with GEO TV.

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Fact File: 60 Years of Pakistan Leadership

President Pervez Musharraf has started his second term in office as a civilian President of Pakistan. Through out the 60 in Pakistan’s history, the helm of leadership has been exchanging hands from civilian to military heads and vice versa. Here’s presenting a quick chronological overview of Pakistan’s leadership since the country’s independence on 14th August 1947. All links to the names mentioned below are courtesy of the Wikipedia website.

Emergency to be lifted on Dec 16

Hours after being sworn in for a second five-year term last night, President Pervez Musharraf announced on television and radio that he intended to lift Pakistan’s state of emergency on Dec. 16.If he goes ahead with the move, it could be an important step in Pakistan’s recent tumultuous politics, which has seen the president impose emergency rule on Nov. 3, suspending the Constitution, dismissing the Supreme Court and arresting thousands of opponents. It remains unclear what the step could actually mean, and whether Musharraf will release all of the political opponents that remain in detention, or try to prosecute them, and what his response will be if protesters take to the streets after the emergency is lifted. Hundreds of lawyers clashed with the police in the eastern city of Lahore on Thursday demonstrating against his new term.

“Right now, I think the dust is settling down and everything is under control,” said Musharraf, speaking on television beside a Pakistan flag. “I have my intention that I will make this move on Dec. 16.”

He also praised the newly appointed COAS, General Kayani and stated that he was the best person and a the most responsible commander to lead the Pakistan Army in to the future.

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