The Defence ministry had demanded that the licence of Geo News be suspended after it reported that the ISI was behind the attack on Mir in Karachi.
Geo TV network and Jang Group, which owns the channel, on May 26 had tendered apology to Pakistan's armed forces and the ISI for hurling allegations on its chief over the assassination attempt on Mir.
The controversy erupted after Mir's brother accused “certain elements” in the ISI and its chief of orchestrating the attack, a charge denied by the military.
The Jang Group had also said: “We also want to bring it on the record that the ISI has been continuously and strongly complaining to our senior editors against some of our senior journalists, particularly against Hamid Mir. We will prove this and many other things at the proper time.”
The Jang Group later clarified that the allegations were not hurled by the institution but by Mir himself and later repeated by his brother soon after the attack.
