Imran Khan facing arrest has been banned from Pakistani TV channels

Pakistan has barred its television channels from airing former premier Imran Khan’s speeches, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority said in order that accused the opposition leader of “baseless accusations and spreading hate speech” against state institutions and officers.

Khan’s actions are “prejudicial to the maintenance of law and order and is likely to disturb public peace and tranquility”, the authority said late Sunday while directing all satellite channels not to broadcast any of his recorded or live news conference or speech. Licenses will be suspended if the order is not complied with, it added.

Hours before Pemra’s ban, police tried to arrest Khan, 70, in Pakistan’s central city of Lahore after a court on Tuesday issued a non-