New York Times, December 11, 2007
By Salman Masood and David Rohde

Nearly all private television channels blacked out last month by President Pervez Musharraf's emergency decree are back on the air. But the country's once-thriving television news media remain largely muzzled by sweeping new restrictions that journalists and Western diplomats say stifle criticism of the government.

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