— PEMRA asks channel to elucidate ‘hateful, seditious’ feedback of PTI chief

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Hours after tv station ARY Information was taken off air in a lot of the nation for being vital of the federal government and for allegedly airing “seditious” content material, Ammad Yousaf, the favored outlet’s vice chairman, was arrested from Karachi within the early hours of Wednesday, the channel stated.

Based on ARY Information, Yousaf was arrested and not using a warrant from his residence situated within the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) neighbourhood of Karachi.

“Law enforcement officials, together with plain-clothed personnel, forcibly entered the home of Ammad Yousaf. The raiding group diverted the CCTV cameras of Yousaf’s home, and jumped into the home from the highest of the principle entrance,” the channel stated.

Previous to his arrest, Yousaf was taken away from his residence, based on the chief government officer (CEO) of the media organisation, Salman Iqbal, who tweeted concerning the incident.

“@ARYNEWSOFFICIAL information head @AmmadYousaf picked up by unknown individuals from his home,” he stated.

‘SEDITIOUS’ CONTENT

ARY Information acquired Monday a discover from the Pakistan Digital Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) which stated it was taken off the air “for airing objectionable, hateful, seditious [content], primarily based on absolute disinformation with a transparent and current menace to nationwide sec by instigating insurrection inside the armed forces with malafide intent to trigger a rift between [government] and [armed] forces”.

On August 8, the channel invited a senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, Shehbaz Gill, to touch upon a narrative throughout a broadcast on Monday whereby he suggested civil servants to not comply with orders of their high officers in the event that they had been “towards the feelings of the general public.”

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) stated Gill was “kidnapped” in Islamabad on Tuesday afternoon and the get together was unable to find him.

PEMRA has additionally directed Iqbal, the CEO, to seem in particular person for a listening to on Wednesday.

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) warned of nationwide protests if the complete transmission was not restored.

The newest sufferer, Nayeem Hussain, 25, a truck driver who grew to become a US citizen on July 8, was killed on Friday, hours after attending the burial of the 2 males slain in July and August, each of them of Pakistani descent.

The three most up-to-date victims all attended the Islamic Heart of New Mexico, Albuquerque’s largest mosque. They have been all shot close to Central Avenue in southeastern Albuquerque.

The primary recognized sufferer, Mohammad Ahmadi, 62, a local of Afghanistan, was killed on November 7, 2021, whereas smoking a cigarette outdoors a grocery retailer and cafe that he ran along with his brother within the southeastern a part of the town.

BULLET CASINGS

Police stated the 2 killings with which Syed was initially charged have been tied collectively based mostly on bullet casings discovered on the two homicide scenes, and the gun utilized in these shootings was later present in his residence.

In response to police, detectives have been making ready to look Syed’s residence in southeastern Albuquerque on Monday when he drove from the residence within the automotive that investigators had recognized to the general public a day earlier as a “automobile of curiosity.”

Albuquerque and state authorities have been working to supply an additional police presence at mosques throughout occasions of prayer because the investigation proceeded within the metropolis, residence to as many as 5,000 Muslims out of a complete inhabitants of 565,000.

The ambush-style shootings of the boys have terrified Albuquerque’s Muslim group. Households went into hiding of their properties, and a few Pakistani college students on the College of New Mexico left city out of concern.

Imtiaz Hussain, whose brother labored as a metropolis planning director and was killed on Aug. 1, stated information of the arrest reassured many within the Muslim group.

“My youngsters requested me, ‘Can we sit on our balcony now?’ and I stated, ‘Sure,’ and so they stated, ‘Can we exit and play now?’ and I stated, ‘Sure,’” he stated.

The area was as soon as a hotbed of native and overseas militants however they’ve principally been pushed out by numerous army operations.

Nobody has claimed the accountability for the bombing, which got here a day after a senior TTP militant with a $3 million bounty on his head, Abdul Wali, often known as Omar Khalid Khurasani, was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

Khurasani’s Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), designated as a terrorist group by america and the United Nations, had claimed accountability for a number of assaults in opposition to police, army, minority Shi’ite Muslims and Christians, which killed lots of of individuals in Pakistan.