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24 News continues to suffer

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24 News continues to suffer

ISLAMABAD – As 24 News Television remained off most cable networks, a senior journalist said Wednesday that PTCL Broadband had also now blocked it.

Murtaza Solangi, a former director general of Radio Pakistan, pointed this out on Twitter.

He asked why were the authorities so scared of Najam Sethi and what was regulator PEMRA doing about it.

Endorsing Solangi’s tweet, Sethi said: “Good questions!.”

Sethi is at the center of it all. He spoke about tensions in the civil-military relations and also discussed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s marriage in his programs.

Responding to his commentary, Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry without naming Sethi had tweeted that what the analyst wanted was wishful thinking. “Any action against him now would endanger democracy,” he said sarcastically, and then suggested: “Prevention is better than cure.”

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