Published 12:33 IST, July 8th 2019

'Naya Pakistan' chokes Opposition voices, employs rigid censorship by muting leader & Pak PM Imran Khan critic Maryam Sharif's speech's live telecast

The grim and bleak censorship in Pakistan was put to display yet again after Pakistan's Opposition leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif's speech was muted on live news telecast.

Reported by: Aishwaria Sonavane
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grim and bleak censorship in Pakistan was put to display yet again after Pakistan's Opposition leer Maryam Nawaz Sharif's speech was muted on live news telecast. 

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter and staunch critique of Pakistan government in a tweet lambasted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan by sharing a video in which her voice was muted at a live telecast on a Pakistani news channel amid a rally. 

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In a tweet, she said, "want to see what censorship looks like? Here it is! It is truth that is feared, t lies"

In a post-midnight rally on Sunday in Pakistan's Mandi Bahauddin, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's vice president raised slogans against Khan amid an ocean of people and said that 66-year-old cricketer-turned-politician does t have any legitimate right to rule Pakistan.

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dressing Khan in her speech, she said: "Give your resignation! Go home!" and urged crowds to chant along with her, Dawn News reported.

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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leer Maryam Nawaz h even released a video clip purportedly showing an accountability court judge allegedly confessing that he was "blackmailed and forced" to convict former premier Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case. 

Sharif has been serving a seven-year prison term at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore since December 24, 2018, when accountability court convicted him in Al-Azizia Steel Mills case - one of three corruption cases filed in wake of apex court's July 28, 2017 order in Panama Papers case. 

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Sharif and his family have denied any wrongdoing and allege that corruption cases against m were politically motivated. 

video purportedly shows judge speaking to Butt and claiming that he was coerced to hand down prison sentence against Sharif despite re being proof of corruption against him. 

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