Traders demand revival of Geo Super telecast
Nasir Chishti
RAWALPINDI: While strongly protesting the advertisements’ ban on Jang Group and closure of Geo Super and Aag channel, traders organisations of Rawalpindi have made it clear on Saturday that if the government and Pemra do not allow Geo Super and Aag channel to resume telecasts then traders of the whole province of Punjab will stage a sit-in outside Parliament.
The protest rally was led by Chief Organiser, Punjab, Tajir Ittehad Forum, and Chairman Pakistan Chemist and Druggists Association, Punjab, Zahid Bakhtavri.
“The traders community would not only continue its struggle for one media group rather for all for the freedom of press. The masses have been deprived of fresh information of sports activities by shutting down Geo Super.” These views were expressed by Zahid Bakhtavri while addressing a big protest rally staged at the Mall Road on Saturday against ban on Geo Super and Aag channel and vindictive action on behalf of the government against the Jang Group.
President of Central Aunjaman-e-Tajran (Registered) Sheikh Siddique, Patron-in-chief of Central Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal, Senior Vice President Sharjeel Mir, General Secretary Khawaja Mushtaq, Spokesman Naveed Kanal and Patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Chemist and Druggists Association, Punjab, Aftab Ahmed Baig, General Secretary Arif Shiekh, Organisation’s Central Secretary Liaison Office Sheikh Abdul Jabbar, Chief Media Coordinator Chaudhry Imran Rasheed, President PCDA District Rawalpindi Saqib Akhtar Butt, Chairman Organisation of Rawalpindi Kashif Riaz, General Secretary Mir Yasrib, Malik Tahir, Noor Waris Kahttak, Coordination Secretary PCDA Tariq Sultan, Sheikh Amjad, Malik Nisar, Chaudhry Imtiaz and Sheikh Maqbool Ahmed of Anjuman-e-Tajran Mall Road, Sultan Mehmood Khan Lodhi, Syed Asif Ali, Media Coordinator Sabir Naqvi and Shaukat Niazi of Central Anjuman Potohar Town, former Chairman of PCDA Khalid Mehmood Amin, Senior Vice President of Anjuman-e-Tajran Kanna Road Zamir Satti, General Secretary Shafiq Janjua, Finance Secretary Haji Ilyas Abbasi, Vice President Shaukat Satti, Tariq Hussain trader leader of Kanna Road and a large number of office bearers of other traders organisations took part in the protest rally.
The protesters were carrying placards and banners in which demands to lift ban on the Jang Group were inscribed.
Sultan Mehmood Khan Lodhi said that in no way the ban on Geo Super would be tolerated and if the telecasts of Geo Super is not started, the Dharna (sit-in) would be staged in front of Parliament.
Source: The News
Date:5/15/2011
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