ARY Group's global transmissions resume after disruption due to technical issue
Dawn.com
Published
July 5, 2017
Various television channels belonging to the ARY Group went off air across the globe Wednesday afternoon, resuming shortly after the technical fault that caused the disruption was fixed.
ARY Group CEO Salman Iqbal told Dawn.com that the interruption in transmission took place due to a technical fault.
"We found a virus in our systems which led to the sudden system failure," Iqbal said.
Television viewers across the world had taken to social media to voice their concern over the interruption.
There were reports that the disruption had affected users in the UK and European region, as well as the Middle East.
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Salman
Jul 05, 2017 02:43pm
That is most likely to happen as they were showing the Brutal face of the Nawaz Form of Democracy to the Nation. We are with ARY and With their team.
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Rahman Javaid Yasin
Jul 05, 2017 02:43pm
Instead of speculating, why don't you call their office and get the correct information?
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Desi_Baba
Jul 05, 2017 02:52pm
Whatever the reason - Alhamdolillah
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Mushtaq Khan
Jul 05, 2017 02:53pm
wait for a while to know the exact reason. we all know the facts and ARY role in recent months but must not jump on the conclusion.
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iffi
Jul 05, 2017 03:00pm
Truth can not be concealed by these cheap tactics by he untouchables ....
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iffi
Jul 05, 2017 03:01pm
@Desi_Baba you should watch ptv & geo (ptv-2)
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Tahir
Jul 05, 2017 03:02pm
We started commenting even may be off due to technical fault, what a nation and their thinking
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faisal
Jul 05, 2017 03:02pm
One of the biased News channel ARY.
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haris
Jul 05, 2017 03:03pm
@Rahman Javaid Yasin : They are using the official hashtag of ARY in their tweets. In other words they are asking the question directly to ARY. Where did you find speculations?
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israr
Jul 05, 2017 03:08pm
wow total cut off ... why has not ary setup a studio in uae, the only way to avoid these kinda situations is to have the channel else where
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Moiz sheikh
Jul 05, 2017 03:11pm
On air now :)
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A. Ali
Jul 05, 2017 03:36pm
an ambiguous and false clarification. things are more deeper than this.
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Sameer
Jul 05, 2017 04:29pm
Virus in our systems? Was ARY DOSd? Was it malware? Was it sabotage?
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