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Posts Tagged ‘Kashif Abbassi’

Kashif Abbassi Doing Media Trial of Politicians

By Tazeen • Jan 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Sensationalism and drama sells. Anchorperson of ARYONE TV channel, Kashif Abbassi seems to be into yellow journalism for quite some time now. With the departure of Musharraf and restoration of judiciary, the shops of many anchorpersons have become lusterless, and some of them have resorted to thriller drama in their talk shows.
In such talk shows, [...]



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 [...]



Media Owes It’s Freedom to Musharraf

By Gul Raiz • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Whatever you say about President General (r) Pervez Musharraf, but you cannot refute the fact that the media gained an unprecedented freedom in his era. He was abused face to face by the belligerent anchors and journalists and he never tried to ban them.
Yes he did ban the channels and the anchorpersons, but only after [...]