Bahira Town chairman and property tycoon Malik Riaz has shut down Aap News due to “unavoidable legal and technical reasons”, an e-mail to the channel’s staff revealed on Saturday.
The broadcast of the news channel will stop today.
Furthermore, as mentioned in the email, “The administration has decided that salaries of all employees for March will be paid on April 14 and 15 while the payment of salaries for the notice period between April 11 and May 11 will be paid on April 21 and 22.”
Riaz will use his licencing rights to launch a new channel where employees of Aap News will be hired on a “priority basis”.
The email further stated that employees would receive 50 per cent of their monthly salaries on the 5th of each month for the next three months.
