First the TV channels went off air. Next, telephone lines started ringing incessantly in the Newsroom. Colleagues ate up their words in mid conversation and we knew without saying a word to each other that the worst had come on November 3, 2007.
Panic-stricken citizens started bombarding the offices of media organizations with phone calls in the evening of that fateful day, inquiring whether the then president and army chief, Pervez Musharraf, had imposed a state of emergency throughout the country. Interestingly, none of the callers asked what had happened, but instead posed the question is it true or not.
