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I am not very fond of forwarded emails, however, the one that I am posting below is quite appropriate to the current environment where certain media personalities have been running a campaign against the PPP, it’s leadership and the Government. I don’t want to name anyone who or what I would call a “garbage truck”. The readers of this blog [...]

How bad a person is Babar Awan? He is such a mean man! We were all expecting fireworks at the Supreme Court yesterday but all he did was play it down for 90 minutes, answer the judges and leave very successfully. And to top it all, a judge said "We didn't summon the Law Minister!" Whooa! What happened there? Jang Group? Ansar Abbasi? Shahid [...]

In all this hoo-ha of NRO, Judicial Activism and yellow journalism, people of Pakistan have forgotten that there is an economy that is running and running well, which to those in perpetual denial will seem unbelievable. According to IMF, Pakistan’s economy is stabilizing however, it remains vulnerable to shocks and is risky for investors. In [...]

Jang Group has been running a campaign against the PPP and its leadership for the last two years. At the forefront of this campaign are jihadi mindset reflectors like Ansar Abbasi and pseudo-intellectuals like Shahid Masood and Shaheen Sehbai. Add the mischievous Hamid Mir and the investigative journalism of Kamran Khan, what we have are all the [...]

Hamid Mir has been doing his best to divert attention of the public and journalists against his audio tapes that have been circulating on the Internet. In his column in 24th May’s Jang, titled “Dushman ka khel”, he has given the analogy of a “crank” call to President Zardari in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks where Indian External [...]

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.” - Henry Steele Commager Pakistan is a developing nation where digitally networked technologies and new media platforms are emerging, and where a struggle to establish democratic norms [...]

In the last four days, Pakistan has mainly been in the news over the internet censorship of facebook, youtube and other websites where sacrilegious content is being broadcast against the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon Him).  However, LUBP has not forgotten a matter that has brought great shame to Pakistan’s educated class and the mainstream [...]

Shaheen Sehbai, the God father of Pakistan’s conspiracy theorists has come out in defense of his prodigal sons i.e. Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi and Shahid Masood in his “Viewpoint” from Washington that was published in The News of May 18, 2010. Titled “Mukhtar lets the cat out, but PM may quit or he can dissolve assemblies” [...]

One can now be certain for the reasons why CJP, Mr.  Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhry, insisted on having Justice Khwaja Sharif to continue as Chief Justice of Lahore High Court and have Justice Saqib Nisar supersede him to be promoted as a judge of the Supreme Court. If you all recall, the (more...)

Hamid Mir in his article in The News titled “Grand Plot Against Media” published on 17th May, 2010 has pinpointed Asif Zardari and the Federal Government for having hatched a conspiracy to malign and blackmail the Pakistani media especially Jang Group. The article can be read on http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=239716. The [...]

There is an interesting column by Athar Abbas in today's Khabrain newspaper that is titled "Justice Jahanzeb Rahim kay 28 sawalat" http://www.khabraingroup.com/column-corner-detail2.htm (more...)

PPP’s Central Information Secretary and MNA, Fauzia Wahab has sent a defamation notice to our favorite, Ansar Abbasi for views expressed by him in a Private TV Talk Show. The notice has been sent with reference to Section 3 (1) of Defamation Ordinance, 2002. The matter has been reported in The News earlier on 16th May, 2010. [...]

Seeing Kamran Khan’s program of May 11, 2010 and Jang of May 12, 2010, one can see a clear bias in the wordings of headlines as well as reporting. The news items are titled as: “Jaali degree par mustaafi honay walay Jamshed Dasti kee himayat mayn Wazeer Azam kee purjosh taqreer” [...]

One of my favorite activities in the morning is to read Jang. Not because I am fond of its quality but because it is something I have done all my life. It is also ironic that the people who have a specific agenda against the government are right now associated with Jang. Be it Ansar Abbasi, Shaheen Sehbai, Tariq Butt, Saleh Zafir on the [...]

On May 1, 2010, I had written a post on this blog titled “Ansar Abbasi, the undeclared spokesperson of Iftikhar Chaudhry”. That post was in response to Ansar Abbasi’s investigative report on the decision of Sohail Ahmed, Chairman Federal Board of Revenue to seek a long term leave as he was demoted from Grade 22 to 21 due to the [...]

Our self righteous media’s erstwhile investigative reporters, Ansar Abbasi and Tariq Butt are at it again. In their yet another  report cum analysis titled “Confusion prevails over fact-finding committee report- Rehman Malik, Babar Awan to record statements now” with the sub-heading “What is the PPP Core Committee up to?” dated May 5, [...]

In The News and Jang of Sunday, May 2, 2010, Tariq Butt has presented a report captioned “Zardari holds power through Core Committee” available on http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=28592. The report talks about a Core Committee being formulated of the closest aides of the President, who happens to be the Co-Chairman of the [...]

Is Ansar Abbasi a journalist or is he the chief spokesperson of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry? Let us have a quick look at today's daily Jang (1 May 2010) and you see his two analyses on the front page. One is about the PPP being alone in the fight against the Supreme Court on the 18th Amendment, and the other about the planned retirement [...]

I am saddened by the killing of former ISI officer, Mr. Khalid Khawaja, by the so called “Asian Tigers” (Punjabi Taliban) after having abducted him more than a month ago. Even though I have strong differences to the point of view of Mr. Khawaja during the last 3 years, when he appeared as a vocal supporter of jihadis, yet his killing is a [...]

I have tears of joy in my eyes when I see these “amazing” decisions being taken by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Yesterday’s decision to declare the Prime Minister’s decision to promote 54 senior civil servants from grade 21 to grade 22 as a “violation of constitutional provisions like Articles 4 (right of individuals to be dealt with [...]

My clearest memory of Kamran Khan is of December 1996, when he came on PTV with a laptop in front of him, talking about the corruption of then recently ousted Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto and her "notorious" husband, now President, Asif Zardari. The monologue by Kamran Khan went on from the corrupt practices of the first couple to the ponies [...]

Jang Group’s (apparently) senior correspondent Muhammad Saleh Zaafir has been seen in recent times as a staunch antagonist of the PPP government. His reporting has a way of supporting (right wing) elements who have some sort of grudge against the government. His reporting credentials are not enviable either. His parliament diary, that usually [...]

It pains me to read yet another piece of sensational investigative journalism by Ansar Abbasi that appeared on back page of Daily Jang (25 April 2010)  and The News (24th April, 2010). The sub heading in Jang is mindboggling saying “the 18th Amendment might even allow convicted local spies of the RAW, the CIA, the FBI and even Mossad to become [...]