There are two things which I don’t watch or try not to watch these days, namely television and cricket. If you ask me, I find both of them disgustingly commercial and repulsively vulgar. Firstly, cricket. I am obliged to quote Oscar Wilde’s famous brainy quote of “not every crime is vulgar, but every vulgarity is [...]
There was a time when we had only one Channel named PTV and it used to stop broadcasting at midnight unless there was some special event like Pakistan Hockey match or Muhammad Ali’s boxing match being broadcast live. PTV helped to create a rival in the form of STN or Shalimar Television Network which created [...]
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, [...]
The scandalous issue of distribution of bonuses to the tune of millions of rupees among the three top guns of the Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) in the last two years refuses to die down. State Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and two opposition senators Pervez Rashid and Saleem Saifullah jumped into the fray on [...]
Dr. Shahid Masood is going through same strange terrains and learning to his great pains the real semantics of hefty salary and lush perks, quite soon after assuming the duties as the Managing Director of state-controlled Pakistan Television, which only state sees and believes.
After the faux pas of Prime Minister speech, some people were fired [...]
There is a very famous statement of Punjabi which roughly translates in English like this “Those who were actually doing it , ran and those who were just taking a bath, got in trouble.” That was what happened with Deputy Managing Director of Pakistan Television, Shahid Mehmood Nadeem.
Shahid Nadeem was sacked by the newly appointed [...]
Every man has his price. My price is 1000 comment on this posts, and the price on which Dr. Shahid Masood sold his neutral and principled independent journalistic career is obnoxiously ugly and astonishing:
The letter of the Establishment Division bearing No 1/64/2008-E-6, dated June 30, 2008, says that:
Dr. Shahid Masood would get:
Would get Rs 700,000 [...]
If I perceive and analyze the above criteria of resistance and force, in the conventional and traditional controversy of government functionaries and our so called resistor as retaliator, whether it may be any dick and harry, limitation of resistance will always be observed.
Though there is nothing inherently bad in accepting the government job or specifically becoming the chairman of state-owned Pakistan Television, but when you see the whole scheme of things, the appointment of Dr. Shahid Masood, the anchorperson of renowned GEO News TV talk show “Meray Mutabiq” as the new chairman of the Pakistan Television reeks, [...]
This is to inform you all that Please beware of fraudulent calls. Certain group of people who give u impression that they are calling from Jazz (Mobilink) and there was a lucky draw being showed on PTV ( or some other channel) and he has won cash prize of Rs 5 lakh or Rs 10 [...]
