The Pakistan Government controls the TV channels through the cable operators as most of the private TV channels telecast their programmes through satellite transmission from Dubai and London.

“We refused to succumb to PEMRA’s pressure and continued to telecast the footage of the lathicharge. So, they took us off air,” said a top journalist of Aaj TV.

The ban was lifted only after Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durani intervened to arrange a compromise under which both the channels were asked to air the footage of the injuries sustained by the police when some lawyers threw stones at them.

Pakistani media have provided coverage to the events related to the sacking of Justice Chaudhry. Besides condemning the sacking, owners and editors of newspapers went to meet Chaudhry but were not granted permission by the security officials.