Pakistani tv channel ARY News stated on Wednesday that its senior govt vice-president Ammad Yousaf were arrested in Karachi. The channel’s declaration got here simply hours after it turned into taken off air for being essential of the authorities.
Another cause noted in the back of the flow to dam the channel turned into that it allegedly aired seditious content. According to ARY News, Yousaf turned into arrested with out a warrant from his house withinside the DHA region in Karachi.
ARY News in a declaration stated: “Police officers, together with plain-clothed personnel, forcibly entered the residence of Ammad Yousaf. The raiding crew diverted the CCTV cameras of Yousaf’s residence, and jumped into the residence from the pinnacle of the primary entrance.”
Earlier, the channel turned into served a observe with the aid of using the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), declaring that it turned into taken off the air “for airing objectionable, hateful, seditious, primarily based totally on absolute disinformation with a clean and gift chance to country wide protection with the aid of using instigating rise up withinside the defense force with malafide cause to motive a rift among the authorities and forces”.
The CEO of the channel has now been requested with the aid of using PEMRA to seem for an in-man or woman listening to on August 10.