Last banned Pakistani TV network on air
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Pakistan's most popular private television network went back on the air Monday after signing a government code of conduct that critics say is muzzling independent media before parliamentary elections next month.
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Pakistan ends sanctions against South Waziristan in a bid to win support for its hunt for militants.
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Bangladesh&#39;s emergency government Thursday shut down the country&#39;s only 24-hour private news channel, officials said, just weeks after it was warned against airing &quot;provocative&quot; news during last month&#39;s nationwide student unrest.
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KARACHI: Pakistani authorities have told a newspaper to stop publishing photos and sermons of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and elusive Taliban chief Mulla Omar, an official said on Wednesday.
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The Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat said it had ceased to broadcast the Lebanese television station Al-Manar -- linked to the Hezbollah militant group -- in line with a ruling by France's highest administrative court.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf withdraws new media restrictions after protests and foreign criticism.
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Excerpt from report by Uzbek TV on 8 December  [Presenter] A satellite network for spreading television and radio signals was put into operation today. Residents of over 300 villages, situated in regions which are remote and difficult to access, now watch and listen to us.
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The CW network will stop broadcasting the long-running World Wrestling Entertainment show âFriday Night Smackdownâ at the end of this broadcast season, the two companies said. Neither company gave any reasons for ending the partnership, though WWE said it was in negotiations to find a new home for the show. âSmackdown,â which had its premiere on UPN in 1999, moved to CW in 2006 when UPN merged with WB. The show has averaged 4.9 million viewers this season, second to âAmericaâs Next Top Model,â CWâs most popular program. But among the 18-to-34 viewer group, the show is only seventh. Last month WWE extended its contract with the USA channel for another show, âRaw,â through 2010.
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Azerbaijan's biggest independent broadcaster ANS is shut down, drawing condemnation from rights activists.
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BEIRUT -- Al-Manar, the television station of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants that has glorified suicide bombers, lost its satellite feed to the United States yesterday after Washington put it on a list of terror organizations. The exclusion from US television screens occurred less than a week after France banned its broadcasts. The station, which ranks fourth or fifth among Lebanon's nine ...
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S &quot;last frontier&quot; Test cricket series against India will be shown on live television in this country following an 11th hour TV rights deal.
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After more than two years of battling remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban, Pakistan&#39;s government announced late Friday it will end its military operation in the tense tribal region of South Waziristan.
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Pakistan's government has put curbs on the media and threatened operators with closure in the hope of stifling an opposition campaign for judicial independence and democracy, analysts and media workers said on Tuesday.
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The United States on Friday  designated al-Manar television -- the mouthpiece of Lebanon's  Hizbollah anti-Israel guerrillas -- a terrorist organization,  prompting an end to its U.S. satellite transmissions.
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LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday reduced the fine and ban imposed on former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper Rashid Latif.
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Text of report by Azerbaijani news agency Turan  Baku, 11 December: The broadcasts of the ANS TV and CM Radio station to resume temporarily at 1200 [0800 gmt] tomorrow, the chairman of the National TV and Radio Council [NTRC], Nusiravan Maharramli, said at a news conference today.
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Pakistan's army warns that no-one will be allowed to bring instability in the country as two TV stations have their broadcasts cut.