COVERAGE of Pakistani Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been blocked out from media nationwide.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan disappeared from mainstream media in Pakistan after the Nation’s Media Regulator ordered networks to remove people involved in violent protests.
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) called on television licensees to make sure that ‘hate mongers, rioters, their facilitators, and perpetrators’ are ‘completely screened out from media’.
The PEMRA did not directly refer to Khan, however, anything to do with the former prime minister is no longer being aired.
In a Twitter post, Khan shared the ordeal that Former Senior Minister of Punjab, Mian Aslam Iqbal is currently facing at the hands of what he called a ‘fascist government’.
He said, “Since the mainstream media has now been completely muzzled, through social media everyone must be made aware of the reign of terror unleashed on Pakistan’s biggest party so that it can be kept out of the elections”.
Former Prime Minister believes the U.S. has turned on him
Meanwhile, amid the continuous crackdown of the government against Khan and his political party, the former prime minister believes that the United States had turned on him because of his skepticism of the global war on terror.
According to Khan, there was a misperception that he had aligned Pakistan with the Taliban.
For now, tensions remain high in the nation – one that is not only battered politically but one that is also facing an economic crisis.
