Posts Tagged ‘Disinformation Cell’

President Zardari has returned so to say that he escaped was wrong. Most analysts were quick to conclude different results and media spread not only rumors but also manufactured news which were aimed to confuse the public, Zardari again was ridiculed and misunderstood, we were told mysteries about different aspects of his health and his actions in [...]

Related Post: Najam Sethi parrots Deep State’s lies by equating Pashtuns with Taliban – by Salma Jafar A manufactured perspective about the Pakistani media is that the sauve English speaking types are somehow more objective in their reporting and liberal in their outlook. It is also derived from this basic false assumption that the English [...]

  I once went to dine out with this Gentleman, an acquaintance of mine. He advised that due to his health condition, he was only able to dine on soup. I agreed and we went to a place, reputed to have some palatable soup. As we dug in to our respective bowls, my companion took a sip, made a face and quickly ask the server to bring in some [...]

For the past two days there is an uproar in Pakistan's social and mainstream media about the Government of Pakistan's alleged plan to block google, youtube etc if they did not assist the GoP in criminal investigations against terrorists. As is a usual characteristic of Pakistan's urban (fake) liberals, Rehman Malik's (Federal Interior Minister) [...]

  Source Maleeha Lodhi’s edited volume is one of the few books that Pakistan military’s Inter-Services Public Relations’ head Maj. General Athar Abbas recommends to his visitors. The value of this book for Pakistan’s armed forces and establishment is that it presents Pakistan as ‘beyond a crisis state’. The basic thesis of the [...]

Editor's Note:  In cross-posting Dr. Taqi's article from Outlook India, we at LUBP stand vindicated on our blunt stance in exposing Fake Civil Society (FCS).  This group of candle-holding Tweeples and  urban elites have failed miserably in even confronting the bigotry of the military establishment spokespeople like Ejaz Haider.  This once [...]

The piece examines the TTP's media productions and the movement's shift toward having its media distributed to jihadi-takfiri Internet forums via the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), a long-established jihadi-takfiri media and translation network. The writer argues that this shift toward GIMF distribution is further evidence of the TTP's [...]

Originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'.

 Editor's note: As bloggers, we are deeply concerned about the disapperance of Syed Saleem Shahzad. The following note below has been submitted to us by a valued contributer and supporter.  This event could be seen in the light of Mr. Shahzad's recent article on the attack on PNS Mehran naval air station in Karachi on May 22. Syed Saleem [...]

Editor's Note:  The following post by Omar Ali (cross posted from 3 Quarks Daily) is a timely reminder of how the security establishment has run the country into the ground.  Unable to protect their own sensitive installations that are housed on prime real estate, the security establishment continues to promote the same xenophobia and [...]

Originally published in the 'Daily Aajkal'

General Zia — a murderer, tyrant, usurper and a monument of moral bankruptcy — was the greatest patriot during his 11 years of misrule During my time as a student of English Literature at Government College, Lahore, my most unexpected but lasting discovery was Dr Samuel Johnson, who is remembered for many things such as his Dictionary and [...]

by Shoaib Adil Originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'

The first attempt on media and free speech in Pakistan was made by Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan and associates when they tried to black out some passages of the Aug. 11, 1947 speech of Mohammad Ali Jinnah before the constituent assembly. However, Mr. Altaf Hussain, the editor of daily “Dawn” came to know of this, and he thwarted their effort by [...]

This article was originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'

Osama bin Laden was living in a compound just a few hundred meters from Pakistan's leading military academy for years before U.S. forces killed him. But despite the massive evidence suggesting Pakistani complicity in his hiding, much of the country's media has been trying to spin the news. The world is asking how Osama bin Laden, once the [...]

Preamble Commenting on the state of pro-establishment journalism in Pakistan, Ayesha Siddiqa once said: Today, we face a state of military hegemony: political, economic and intellectual control. Today, there is not a single university in Pakistan or a young scholar who is not on the military’s payroll or network. They open shops called [...]

 Editor's Note: In the following article for Express Tribune, Zohra Yusuf deconstructs media bias towards corruption.   The selective and unsubstantiated lynching of some politicians has not made our society any better; rather it has made us far more hypocritical in our understanding of financial corruption.   When it comes to corruption [...]

Disclaimer: This post is based on my personal research and understanding of the military establishment's strategies and tactics in Pakistani media, which I am publishing for the information and well being of the Pakistani nation. However, the post does not represent an official policy of the LUBP. **** While in his post titled "The ISI [...]

Through LUBP, we have been successfully confronting and exposing the pro-military establishment and pro-urban middle class narratives of the Pakistani print and electronic media (including Pakistani blogs). (see some examples here, here and here) However, the role of foreign media in Pakistan, as embedded in and reinforcing the military [...]

Related articles: Mohsin Baig’s Online-International News Network: A news ‘agency’ you can trust! A glaring example of how ISI dictates Pakistani newspapers: The case of a missing WikiLeak cable Can’t they just be spies? The fake WikiLeaks story that shamed so many good newspapers in Pakistan last week brought to mind a [...]

Agosta submarine deal - Benazir, Zardari not involved: ex-naval spy chief Former director-general of Naval Intelligence Commodore (retd ) Shahid Ashraf has said that President Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto were not involved in the deal for the purchase of Agosta submarines from France. He said that though he was [...]

Related articles: Mohsin Baig’s Online-International News Network: A news ‘agency’ you can trust! Zafar Hilaly’s ‘hate India’ op-ed in service of his masters in the ISI Here is an excellent investigative article by our fellow bloggers at Cafe Pyala who are very ably and bravely exposing the ISI's investment in Pakistan's print [...]

اک کہانی سنو سویرے سویرے نذیر ناجی وکی لیکس میں 2008ء اور 2009ء کے حوالے سے فوجی بغاوت کی جو خبریں‘ تجزیئے‘ حتیٰ کہ جنرل کیانی کا نام لے کر کھلی دعوتیں کہ وہ آگے بڑھ کر اقتدار پر قبضہ کر لیں‘ محض [...]

Disclaimer: The following post does not represent the LUBP's view point. This is based on my personal opinion. Not unlike paid journalists with vested interests, it has become a fashion amongst bloggers and media activists to present themselves as freelance, neutral analysts, however, their loyalties and agenda remain firmly committed to their [...]

More than a year earlier, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas had been appointed as the military’s spokesman. With several brothers prominent in the media—his brother, Mazhar Abbas, headed the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists for several years and was a 2007 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee; another, Zafar, is editor of the English-language [...]

There is a growing tendency to shun politics. The response of a lot people to this it: What has it given us besides corruption and a poor image of the country in the eyes of the world? Nevertheless, I will insist on the formula of politics being important because this is not just about politicians or political parties. Politics is about [...]

Here is a valuable excerpt cross posted from Pakistan Media Watch: Let us review some recent incidents in our own media that have gone without even the slightest reprimand. On 7 October, a reporter for The Nation, Syed Fawad Ali Shah, sent a message to popular press email list “Media Tribe” that says, They know that the PPP aka [...]

============= افواہ کس نے اڑائی ؟ ============= ٹی وی پروگرام " پالیسی میٹرز " پر تبصرہ 15  اکتوبر کو ایک ویب سائٹ پر پوسٹ کیا گیا سپریم کورٹ نے ایک کاروائی کرنی تھی ، اس مقصد کے لیئے میڈیا کے ذریعے ایک [...]

Here is something which the critical readers of the LUBP would love to read: Watch Abbas Ather's conversation with Asma Jahangir in today's Column Kaar (16 October 2010). http://pkpolitics.com/2010/10/16/column-kaar-16-october-2010 At about 8:00 minutes in the above video, Abbas Ather reveals without naming that it was a newspaper (Jang [...]

Geo TV's rumour mongering The Supreme Court’s “restraining order” to stop government functionaries from any moves to undermine the judiciary have brought to the fore the unsavoury role being played by a section of the electronic media in the political arena. On Thursday, the chief justice of Pakistan felt compelled to call an [...]

Sacked Pakistan judges fear repeat performance: Jokers in the Supreme Court of Pakistan Apparently, it was disinformation spread by Geo TV and made judges fool. They overreacted on rumours and got trapped in the Geo TV's game to improve its quickly falling ratings. Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday warned the government against firing [...]

Following David Cameron's statements in New Delhi last week, there were media reports that the DG ISI had cancelled his upcoming trip to the UK. The DG ISI was applauded for his patriotism. Here is just a small sample of media reports of the trip that had been supposedly cancelled due to extreme patriotism and "ghairat" of the DG ISI. [...]

A brigade is just a metaphor. What we have now is a veritable army of the enraged middle classes inveighing day in and day out against the evil of the times in which they live and hoping somehow for a miracle to stop what in their minds is a rushing march to perdition. If you tell the standard-bearers of this army, and they are to be found [...]

In my recent posts on the LUBP, I have highlighted the pseudo-liberal inclination of several Pakistani intellectuals including bloggers. Another common feature of Pakistani blogs is their selective understanding and representation of events in Pakistan. For example, events happening in Karachi and Punjab (Lahore and Rawalpindi/Islamabad in [...]

We don't need rabid mullahs or pseudo-liberal poodles of the ISI to propagate wild conspiracy theory in Pakistan, Chief Justice of the Lahore Hight Court is more than enough. According to the Chief Taliban Protector in Punjab, Justice Khwaja Sharif, Blackwater could be the culprit behind the barbaric attack on Lahore's Data Darbar. [...]

A few months ago, veteran writer and journalist Hamid Akthar wrote an excellent article in The Express highlighting the unholy alliance of the Three Jeem (three Js) i.e., journalists, judges and jurnails (generals) against the people and politicians of Pakistan. The LUBP (and other media watcher blogs, such as Pakistan Media Watch) have been [...]

Source: Pakistan Media Watch One would think that after a 42-year career in the field of journalism, Shaheen Sehbai would have grown a slightly thicker skin. Instead, it appears that he’s grown quite a bit of cheek! Apparently the Group Editor of The News had his feeling hurt by an article penned by MNA Azeem Daultana and has responded with [...]

Pakistan's predominantly right wing media's hostile propaganda against politicians and misrepresentation of information serve as a breeding ground for extremist aberrations in the society. Journalism is a gentleman's profession, but here in Pakistan, newly born liberalized media seems to be working up mob hysteria especially against politicians [...]

First published on Pak Tea House Apropos “Information Minister vs journalists” by Usman Manzoor published in The News International of May 27, 2010, the reporter has desperately tried to use the space of this newspaper to establish the now controversial credentials of its Group Editor, Mr. Shaheen Sehbai. Why he felt the need to do so may [...]