Govt applying Musharraf’s techniques on media: Ahsan

Sunday, March 15, 2009By By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Secretary Information Ahsan Iqbal said General Musharraf used tactics to impose a ban on the media and arrest political workers and lawyers, but in the end, he himself had to resign.At the moment, the government was also doing the same and would meet the same fate, Ahsan said while addressing lawyers at the Islamabad Bar Association here on Saturday.He said Zardari had also banned the media and tried to stop the lawyers and the political workers from the long march, but the results would be the same and Zardari would lose his government.He said the government had impounded hundreds of containers to block the roads and stop participants of the long march.He said business activities were at halt and import and export had suspended, which caused the loss of around $1 billion.This loss would be recovered from those, who had given the orders to impound the containers, he added.