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	Media Mirror: 16-08-2010

	August 14 – 16, 2010 Censorship
	15 August 2010 Although the country’s electronic news media industry is reaching a growing audience, attempts have been made in recent years to curtail the viewers’ right to watch channels of their choice. The most infamous example was the Musharraf dispensation’s decree in 2007 that cable operators take certain channels offline. Yet despite the shift from a dictatorship to a democracy, similar attempts have been witnessed since the 2008 elections.
	http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/editorial/harassment-of-channels-580
	Police being deployed to restore Geo transmission
	Police being deployed to restore Geo transmission The News:Front page
	http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/aug2010-daily/15-08-2010/main.htm
	Ensure Geo telecasts or seek some other job, Gilani tells Pemra chief
	Ensure Geo telecasts or seek some other job, Gilani tells Pemra chief The News: Front page

	Flickering back – Editorial
	Flickering back – Editorial The News: Page 7

	Geo News back in some areas after SC order
	14 August 2010 Geo News back in some areas after SC order ISLAMABAD: The telecast of Geo News has started to come on line after Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry ordered the same while hearing petitions against the closure of Geo News and other news channels, Geo News reported Friday.
	http://www.thenews.com.pk/
	Blocking channels’ transmission criminal: CJ
	ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Friday said that blocking the transmission of television channels was criminal. Dawn, Nation,

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