The Pakistan army has demanded the Nawaz government to close down the country's top-rated TV channel after it aired accusations that the military's top intelligence agency was behind the shooting of its senior journalist.
The demand comes after remarks made by relatives of journalist Hamid Mir, who was shot six times in the southern city of Karachi on Saturday, were broadcast by Geo News.
According to the Wall Street Journal, they blamed the attack on the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency (ISI), and its chief, Lt. Gen. Zaheer-ul-Islam.
The relatives said that the ISI carried out the attack on Mir for his reports on the spy agency's role in the country's politics.
The military, which oversees the ISI, has denied the charge as 'without any basis' and asked the media regulator, through the Ministry of Defense, to withdraw the TV company's license, the report added.
