Whilst the media has been all over this story, there is no real surprise that NDTV 24x7, CNNIBN, Star News, Zee News and Headlines Today, the major news channels in India, are the primary sources for all the world's news channels.
Fox News, Al Jazeera, BBC News Channel, BBC World News, CNN International and France 24 are all over this story, as are MSNBC and CNN US, . In Australia, ABC News Breakfast on ABC2 has been covering the story heavily. Sky News, rather surprisingly, haven't switched to breaking news, despite their Indian sister station Star News being right in the center of the action. They decided to stick with 15 minutes format. After 10pm, they switched to a breaking news format.
BBC News Channel switched at 10pm to the usual BBC News at Ten simulcast with BBC1. After the simulcast, they switched back to breaking news. BBC News Channel and BBC World News are due to simulcast together at 1am UK time, so, dependent on what happens in this story, the simulcast may be a breaking news format rather than the usual bulletin format.
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Saturday, 3 November 2007
Pakistan State Of Emergency Roundup
With the National State Of Emergency declared in Pakistan, I thought it would be interesting to see how the various news websites have reported this.
It'sinteresting to note that the signs were there before this happened. NDTV interviewed former premier and Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on November 1st 2007, and she said that she saw no movement towards fair elections in Pakistan. Then the next day, Al Jazeera reported that there were rumours that Martial Law had been imposed in Pakistan, and that the military leaders were denying this.
But on Saturday, a National State Of Emergency was declared, as Al Jazeera reported, and the constitution was suspended. Zee News reports that the US and UK were unhappy with developments, and were looking for assurances from Musharraf.
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who had flown home from Dubai back to Karachi, condemned the move too, but was unexpectedly allowed to return to her home. Perhaps that will be so she can be put under house arrest, as there have been reports that former Pakistan Cricket captain and politician Imran Khan has been put under house arrest.
Meantime, President Musharraf went on television to defend his actions, saying that terrorism was threatening the country's sovereignty.
Obviously, we'll follow developments closely.
It'sinteresting to note that the signs were there before this happened. NDTV interviewed former premier and Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on November 1st 2007, and she said that she saw no movement towards fair elections in Pakistan. Then the next day, Al Jazeera reported that there were rumours that Martial Law had been imposed in Pakistan, and that the military leaders were denying this.
But on Saturday, a National State Of Emergency was declared, as Al Jazeera reported, and the constitution was suspended. Zee News reports that the US and UK were unhappy with developments, and were looking for assurances from Musharraf.
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who had flown home from Dubai back to Karachi, condemned the move too, but was unexpectedly allowed to return to her home. Perhaps that will be so she can be put under house arrest, as there have been reports that former Pakistan Cricket captain and politician Imran Khan has been put under house arrest.
Meantime, President Musharraf went on television to defend his actions, saying that terrorism was threatening the country's sovereignty.
Obviously, we'll follow developments closely.
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