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1. Various, Geo workers in newsroom watching last moments of transmission 2. Various, Geo workers depressed or in tears 3. Imran Aslam (Geo Network President) in newsroom with colleagues 4. Geo staff, sitting 5. Close up, TV screen relaying Geo's shutdown news 6. Geo staff, one with camera recording the moment ++ NIGHT SHOTS++ 7. Geo workers in street protest march 8. Various, protesters chanting 9. Scuffle with police 10. Various, protesters shouting ++INTERIOR++ 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Imran Aslam, Geo Network President: "This was not totally unexpected but we were surprised they managed to shut us down in Dubai, which is where we had our up-link (satellite) facilities and this is the Dubai media city which guarantees a great deal of freedom and I am certainly surprised because this will obviously have an impact on investment opportunities, for instance in Dubai." ++ NIGHT SHOTS++ 12. Various, security police STORYLINE: Pakistan's independent television channel, Geo, was shut down on Friday, after pressure from President General Pervez Musharraf, according to the network's website. The site said that terrestrial and cable broadcasts had ceased under Pakistan's latest emergency rules and the latest moves meant that satellite viewers would be unable to pick up any signal via the network's Dubai up-link. Kyodo, a Japanese news agency, reported Pakistan's ARY TV had also ceased transmission from Dubai. It quoted Mohsin Raza, chief of ARY's Islamabad bureau, assaying that its telecast all over the world ceased at midnight on Friday. Imran Aslam, Geo Network President, told AP Television : "This was not totally unexpected but we were surprised they managed to shut us down in Dubai. This is the Dubai media city which guarantees a great deal of freedom and I am certainly surprised because this will obviously have an impact on investment opportunities, for instance, in Dubai." Angry journalists, complaining about the widespread clampdown on media freedom marched through Karachi on Friday night, with occasional scuffles with police. One report said the television shutdowns alone would cost several thousand jobs. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/159fdfcb80a67d53fab8fed60d0fbdc8 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork