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Channel, anchor stopped from smearing Geo/Jang officials

Pakistan Press Foundation

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has restrained a private TV channel and its anchorperson Mubashir Lucman from blaming the Chief Executive (CE) of Geo/Jang Group without confirmation.

On a petition filed on behalf of Independent Newspapers Corporation and Independent Media Corporation, the SHC ordered the respondent, ARY channel and Mubashir Lucman, to stop broadcasting and writing any material without confirmation damaging the reputation of Editor-in-Chief Jang/Geo. The petition stated that the respondent had launched a campaign to defame the Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive of Jang/Geo Group. In this connection, the learned advocate submitted a manuscript of the said programme and said licence can’t be issued to the respondent to defame any person without confirmation. Remarks based on facts are the demand of the time but reputation of any person can’t be hurt on this pretext, he observed.

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