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Role of Geo in Musharraf Era
January 26th, 2012 by admin
In fact, lack of feedback and accountability against its actions made government overconfident in Pakistan. As a result, government continued its policies in wrong direction. A worldwide revolution of information technology in 1990s coupled with a foreign pressure on Pakistan Government to free its media forced Musharraf Government to privatize TV network in Pakistan. Moreover, General Musharraf, who was a dictator, wants to paint himself as a democrat to outside world. Therefore, government decided to issue TV channel licenses. In such circumstances, Jung Group was first applicant to get license and start its private channel in the name of Geo .and its viewer watch Geo News Live Streaming .Jung group also criticized government’s wrong policies through print media.