The AAJ now has a list of Supreme Court decisions it wants Congress to reverse.

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But Hindi news channel NDTV India trails market leader Aaj Tak, owned by the Living Media Group.

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Aaj and other stations were yanked off the air when President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule last year.

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Early Sunday, two dozen policemen raided the offices of AAJ-TV in Islamabad, saying they had orders to take the station's equipment.

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Leading news channels like CNN-IBN, Times Now, NDTV, Zee News and Aaj Tak started reporting the news as early as 06:00 local time.

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"There is no ideological content to his speeches, " said Nusrat Javed, a liberal commentator who hosts of one of Pakistan's leading political talk shows, on the Aaj News channel.

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In a statement, AAJ President Gibson Vance advocated passage of a bill pending in Congress that would require foreign manufacturers to designate a U.S. agent to accept service should they be sued here.

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