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Posts Tagged ‘Geo’

Kuch Maza Nahin Aya

By Irfan Waheed • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Nobody has been arressted,  nobody has been summoned to court, even the Exit Control List is nowhere to be seen and there is lots of confusion about this very issue and  infact the secretary of interior has been suspended along with some FIA officials as they barred the defense minister Ahmad Mukhtar from going to [...]



GEO Banned II

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Geo Television had started its broadcasts on 14th August 2002 on the occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day, continued to run smoothly but, along with other such Channels like ARY Oneworld and Aaj, had first time suffered with drastic shock in November 2007 when Gen Musharraf had promulgated notorious ‘emergency’ in the shape of sub-martial law [...]



GEO Banned

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the last week of November 2009, the transmissions of GEO concerning ‘Merey Mutabiq’ of Dr Shahid Masood were banned allegedly on the pretext that propaganda against the presidency was being sent on air without due scrutiny, care and caution. The presidency team considered that the media had mislead the general public with disinformation on [...]



Has GEO failed to Overhaul the Government?

By zulfiqar • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Since the election of President Asif Ali Zardari as the president of Pakistan, some elements in media (95% of them from GEO and Jang group) has used every medium from paper to electronic to bash at the government. There one point agenda was not to topple the government but to replace President and some of [...]



Shoaib Bhutta Versus Jang and GEO

By Sharafat • Nov 26th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Arrest warrants have been issued against Shoaib Bhutta, the publisher of a local newspaper, over leveling allegations on Jang Group and Geo television network, Geo news reported on Thursday morning.
According to sources, Shoaid Bhutta accused Jang Group of being partial in supporting movement of judges’ restoration while, Jang Group sources had denied the allegations, terming [...]



Zardari Comes Hard at GEO and MQM

By Altaf Khan • Nov 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

President Asif Ali Zardari has at last broken his silence and has slammed hard at the media and the MQM, his ever-irking ally in the government. He has made public appearance after such a long time in Sindh, in the so-called powerbase of the Pakistan People’s Party.
He directly hit the GEO televison network and specifically [...]



Media Anchors Should Be Controlled by Government

By Altaf Khan • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

All the private media channels including GEO, ARYONEWORLD, Express, AAJ, DAWN and others have become mouth pieces of terrorists.
Just switch on any TV. You hear:

A Blast has been heard in Peshawar.
Then for five minutes it flashes.
Then live coverage starts from the blast spot.
They broadcast dead bodies, crying people, blood, and injured people.
They telecast live collapsing [...]



Holbrooke Inspected Pakistani Nuclear Installations ?? SHOCKING

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali, a young leader of PML-N the opposition party and the member of national assembly has made a very sweeping statement in the live TV talk show of Hamid Mir at the GEO televsion network.
He has said that the current regime of Pakistan People Party has allowed and facilitated the Richard Holbrooke, [...]



Gilani : Make History or Become History

By Maria Sultan • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As one leading journalist reports a very insightful look inside the brain of Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani as Gilani outbursted. It was on his way back from Sharm el-Sheikh that Gilani spoke to Hamid Mir of Geo and Jang, saying, in effect, that henceforth he would be his own man, reshuffle his cabinet on the [...]



Ramadan and Hoarding

By Haris Hashmi • Aug 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Ramadan is the month of fasting and hoarding. Market mafias, wholesalers, retailers and shop-keepers; everyone chucks extra profit from the faithful in all the edible items. One gets to know that Ramadan is approaching well before its moon sighting as the prices of everything surge to a whooping measure. In total disregard to what Ramadan [...]