Pakistani authorities on Friday took the Aaj TV news channel off cable networks after it aired a show by an anchor that had been blacklisted by the military regime.

Aaj went off the air as it was beaming the programme Bolta Pakistan hosted by Nusrat Javed. Authorities had briefly ordered Aaj off cable networks on February 6 when Javed had appeared on another show.

Javed's show was taken off the air when President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule in 2007.

Musharraf shut down all foreign and Pakistani news channels after he imposed emergency on November 3. The channels were allowed to return only after signing a government-mandated code of conduct.