Pakistani media and competition on panama case coverage

As soon as the case of panama started in the court, all the channels started their race of ratings.
No channel in pakistan wanted to be left behind but the two main channels ARY and Geo news were considered to be tilted on the either side.
ARY in favour of PTI and Geo in favour of PMLN.
But presence of some neutral anchors like shahzeb khanzada changed the entire pace of the coverage.
Moreover, anchors like hassan nisar on geo tv who bluntly speak against this system of democracy and the present govt of PMLN that came into power after elections 2013.
Both the channels, apparently put forward the opinions that are neutral but the boycott of govt leaders of ARY because of its tilted and blunt coverage poses a big question mark on the media as well as the govt.
Also, misbehave of PTI with geo news also appeared in rumors.
However, no channel can be considered as the popular one if its biased and tilted towards single party.
Both ARY and Geo News are striving hard to come back to the neutral position.
The war between the channel is still ongoing.

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