Urdu news channels taken off air after JSQM appeal
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LARKANA: Following an appeal by the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), local cable operators took Urdu news channels off the air on Friday.
A cable operator, Arsalan Buriro, told Dawn that Urdu channels were not only blocked in Larkana but also in Khairpur Mir’s, Shikarpur, Dadu and some other districts after JSQM’s appeal.
The JSQM had expressed reservations about Urdu media’s coverage of the party’s March 23 rally in Karachi.
JSQM leaders taking part in the soyem of its slain leaders, Maqsood Qureshi and Salman Wadho, in Ratodero had appealed to people to boycott the Urdu news channels.
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Mar 29, 2014 09:08pm
What is left. English channels which we do not have.
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Mar 29, 2014 09:09pm
What is left.
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Mar 29, 2014 09:09pm
What is left
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Apr 01, 2014 07:50am
I live in Larkana and every time I wake up in the morning or come back from college, I turn on the TV to see news, and what do I see there? Nothing. Just Indian entertainment channels and Sindhi news channels, as soon as I notice there are no Urdu news channels. I turn of the TV. Just what is going on here? I am not getting any news that when they will be on air again, not even on internet. This is really bad, like really bad.
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