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Pakistan's independent electronic media outlets are increasingly the focus, rather than the source, of news coverage about the country.

Liberalized in 2002, they are celebrated as proof of Pakistan's democratic credentials.

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But they are also viewed as a destabilizing force—one that spurs political instability, hijacks foreign relations, and promotes extremism. On April 11, the Wilson Center's Asia Program hosted a presentation by Wilson Center Pakistan Scholar Huma Yusuf that examined which interests Pakistan's independent media better serve: public or vested.

Her remarks centered around the country's private television networks, which reach anywhere between 40 and 70 million viewers in a nation of 180 million people.

According to Yusuf, a journalist with the Pakistan daily Dawn, Pakistan's electronic media sector exhibits "schizophrenic" tendencies, given that it is "both free and fettered." On th