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Posts Tagged ‘Hamid Mir’

Thank You Committee to Protect Journalists in Pakistan

By Ghazala Khan • Dec 23rd, 2011 • Category: Features

Come what may, dictatorship must not rule Pakistan again. Democracy is never corrupt, never incompetent and never be derailed. It’s the governments who are corrupt, a failure, and should be sent packing through the democratic processes, and better still to let these governments complete their tenure and let the people do their accountability through the [...]



Saleem Safi versus Hamid Mir

By Maria Sultan • Oct 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The internal politics of the private TV channels is a strange story in itself. The most viewed channel GEO hosts some most popular journalists and the cheap battles and jealousy stories among these anchors and journalists are getting new hype because everyone wants to become number 1.
Saleem Safi and Hamid Mir have gained a new [...]



Open Inquiry

By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There’s nothing more dangerous than an idiot political activist. On Oct 8th ex home Minister Mr. Zulfiqar Mirza appeared in the talk show. Once again he used very terrible language against some political parties and their leaders. In his world he and only late PPP leaderships Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Mr. Zardari are [...]



Pakistani Media Got Scared by MQM

By Salman Mugsi • Sep 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics

After the aggressive and threatening and derogatory press conference of MQM, the Pakistani media who is earning a lot from the Karachi city, has gone very quiet and now every anchor in every program at every channel is looking stupefied and terrified and the reports are many anchors have also tried to reach out to [...]



PROVED!!! Geo Cannot Tolerate People’s Reaction

By Umer Toor • May 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

These anchorpersons, journalists, spin doctors get harassed when the common people of Pakistan gather up to protest against their conspiracy theories, media trials and the yellow journalism? On daily basis, the Geo News broadcasts various talk shows and programs to malign the good name of the government.
They threaten the government, talk about ambulances and dead [...]



GEO Lost, Zardari Won

By Umer Toor • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

All the media clowns, conspiracy theorists, spin wizards and arm-chair strategists on the payroll of GEO and Jang Group have become tepid, hopeless and grim, as despite of their hard efforts, the sun of Zardari is illuminating with full vigor on the horizon of Pakistan, and the people of Pakistan have prevailed once again under [...]



Close Down GEO and Everything Will be Fine

By Gul Raiz • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Honestly, if you don’t watch GEO Television, everything seems so routine and normal in the country and you don’t get bouts of frustration and agony and you don’t shudder that Pakistan will be no more in coming some weeks or the country won’t be engulfed in the civil war and we will be cutting each [...]



Karak Oil Field Stormed by Terrorist Shah Abdul Aziz

By Gul Raiz • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Why have they released the terrorist Shah Abdul Aziz, the former member of national assembly and the man who was arrested redhandedly with the letter of Baitullah Mehsud, who was head of Taliban and responsible for the deaths of thousands of Pakistanis throughout Pakistan?
Shah Abdul Aziz was arrested  by the police and he remained incarcerated [...]



Zardari, Sharif and Co. – The fleece that wouldn’t sell

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Yet another feast and this is NOT a feat. The nation wilts and tilts to a position where there is no return. The Army is locked up, beefed up and engaged from where it cannot step back but from whence it has to return victor, no second option. Until then the pawns have to be [...]



Hilary Clinton’s Interaction with Media Anchors

By Tazeen • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

So now we know that at last the uproar created by media over the Kerry-Lugar bill has attracted the US attention and secretary of state Hilary Rodham Clinton has given the most importance to the media anchors, and not even to the journalists or to the columnists or to the analysts.
Media anchors like Talat Hussain, [...]