Posts Tagged ‘Geo TV’

I have been wanting to write on this matter in the last fortnight but just didn’t get the time to do so. I also hoped that someone from the mainstream media or other tweeting/facebooking/online social media gurus from Pakistan would write about it. New year’s eve 2012 in Dubai was a grand event. It seemed the who’s who of Pakistan were there [...]

The Washington Post's Islamabad correspondent Karin Brulliard reports on Pakistani leading media group's bias, irresponsible reporting, negativity against modern liberal concepts, anti American views, it's pro religious extremist approach and anti democratic agenda. KARACHI, Pakistan — In a nation that often appears engulfed by religious [...]

It's all about hunger for control. It's all about hitting the right audience. Amir Liaqat's exposure came at a time when there was a general perception of godliness about him, and this perception becomes much more stronger among his followers when all he had to do was simply tell it on screen once more that there is an "Ahmediya" hand behind [...]

  Kamran Khan, Geo TV’s ace anchor having his show named after him, “Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath” is known for his end of times scenario build ups related to the PPP government’s demise. Starting from corruption stories to bad governance and support for right wing in the country, his shows begin with his diatribe against the [...]

جب میں نے سلیم صافی کے بارے میں اپنا پہلا آرٹیکل لکھا تو کچھ دوستوں کو عجیب بھی لگا کہ ایک صحافتی نابالغ کو اتنی اہمیت دینا ایں چہ معنی دارد؟ لیکن  سلیم صافی حالیہ کالمز میں کیمبرج اور [...]

 According to fiction writers at Jang Group, the media cell of the President House has been trying its best to break away anchors of Geo TV to make them join firstly state owned  PTV and after failing, now using the services of “Government Friendly” TV networks to break away these anchors. According to the report, the [...]

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Mr. Faisal Karim Kundi Deputy Speaker National Assembly of Pakistan Parliament House Islamabad Subject: Non-Compliance and Breach of Protocol by GEO News on May 9, 2011 Honorable Sir: Please refer to the proceedings of the National Assembly dated May 9, 2011.  Pakistan Television (PTV) is the only channel allowed to live [...]

Related Articles: Geo TV gets censored…by Geo TV: Najam Sethi’s show and the out of bound topics – by Maula Bux Thadani Najam Sethi: Geo’s Catch-22? – by Noha Beig We are living in the Age of media abundance, and lamentably, there is a dearth of news stories and reporting that offer any hope and portray the enlightenment as a [...]

Last night (Tue, 19 April 2011) Najam Sethi's show, Aapas Ki Baat, on Geo-News went off the air when Sethi was talking about agencies propping up Imran Khan. It returned after almost 10 minutes of ads. Its host said that there was a technical fault. This is the second time a 'technical fault' has occurred on the show. The first time it occurred a [...]

KARACHI - A colleague of journalist Wali Babar escorted the ring leader of the gang of “target killers” who later murdered him, to the Geo office in Karachi, and helped him take snaps of Babar with his cell phone camera, disclosed the arrested accused of the case to a joint investigation team (JIT). The ring leader, Faisal alias Mota and [...]

“I am standing in a victim’s house where YOU CAN SEE an eight year old and the only son of a local teacher is killed in suicide attack, yesterday. Now you can see the situation here and we are trying to have a discussion with mother of the child but AS YOU CAN SEE she is in a state of shock,” and especially, that sad background music. Well, [...]

Pakistani cricket fans are on their way to Chandigarh to cheer their team in the mother of all matches taking place at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali. Among them are Pakistani peace activists who will be joined by their Indian counterparts to promote peace. Pakistani cricket fans would have crossed the border without obtaining [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Najam Sethi GEO TV often paints itself as the underdog, the scrapper that is crusading against the “all-powerful” President and Prime Minister.  Even if this image is laughable in the light of the billions of rupees of tax liabilities that GEO manages to avoid or the fact that it is the home of the most [...]

It doesn't look good that we should start our 1st day of the year with the same problems and issues that we have been dealing for over 2 decades. Please find herewith web link of a programme telecast on "Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Sath" Geo TV Pakistan dated [...]

Related article: Finally, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman kicks Dr Shahid Masood out of Geo TV After his disgraceful exits from PTV and Geo TV, it is now confirmed that Dr Shahid Masood, the 'renowned' asset of the military establishment in the ISI-JI dominated media, has been terminated from the ARY TV Network. He was working as the President of [...]

امربالمعروف ونہی عن المنکر کس سے منصفی چاہیں… انصار عباسی 22 نومبر 2010ء کو جنگ میں چھپنے والے میرے کالم بعنوان ”اگر حیاء نہ رہے.......“ پر مجھے قارئین کی طرف سے بے پناہ ردعمل ملا۔ مجھے یہ جان [...]

The front end: the ISI strikes back Recently, the LUBP wrote an article titled "Pakistan Army owns up the ISI man on a suicide attack mission in India". 'Renowned' nationalist, patriot, and 'asset', Ahmed Quraishi, took exception to our views and thus scolded the LUBP in the following words: Ahmed Quraishi's attack on the LUBP: ‘Et tu, [...]

The common people have the right to know the working of their government. People intend to be aware of the happenings around them and it is because of media that the people keep aware of what is happening around them.  Media is a mirror of the society. It not only bridges the gap between the government and the general public but also provides [...]

Oh wow. We've all become so used to the hyperbole of the Western and local language English press around Pakistan Fashion Weeks, that it is sometimes easy to forget how a significant section of society in Pakistan views them. And who better to represent that view than our intrepid Khalifa-ul-Waqt, Ansar Abbasi, who can and will hold forth on [...]

Guess who was spotted on November 9 in Washington D.C. at a reception for American and Pakistani media personnel thrown by US AfPak ambassador Richard Holbrooke's media assistant Ashley Bommer? Mir Ibrahim Rehman, scion of the house of Jang and CEO of the Geo TV Network. He walked in with The Friday Times editor and Dunya TV's Najam Sethi but [...]

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 [...]

Well I must say that this is what Kamran Khan don't have in reality 'Sukoon Ki Neend'. Excellent work by M. Ali !!

As predicated by Naheed Khan (reported in Hamid Mir's op-ed today), the Tsunami came, however, its direction was towards the dirtiest ever CEO of a Pakistani media group, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, who has broken his own past records of yellow journalism and blackmailing in the last few years. The Tsunami came from the cable operators who in a press [...]

We have received this email from PPP’s Information Secretary, Fauzia Wahab which talks about an experience in a program on Samaa TV called “Faisla Aap Ka”. The host of the show was Asma Shirazi while the program was telecast on Sunday, October 24, 2010. The program was different in the sense that it had an involvement of an audience which [...]

The advertisement starts with an old man’s fingers raised in air; a subtitle explains that it is set up at India-Pakistan border. A poor Pakistani, cheered on by a group of people sitting outside tents, is making some weird gestures to a group of well-dressed Indians observing him through binoculars. Indians finally understand that the old man [...]

Related articles: Congratulations, Asma Jahangir won the SCBA elections – by pejamistri Asma Jahangir becomes first female SCBA president; success of democracy in Pakistan I was in my class teaching a very dry subject when I saw an email message that simply stated what I had longed to hear: “Asma Jahangir wins”. I didn't need to [...]

Related article: An open letter to Senator Dr Safdar Abbasi This is with reference to Hamid Mir's Capital Talk (Geo TV) on 25 October 2010: http://pkpolitics.com/2010/10/25/capital-talk-25-october-2010 There are two obvious flaws in Hamid Mir's logic: 1. The PPP (or the federal government) has not banned Geo TV's transmission or any of [...]

I recently came across a comment by the President and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, which really struck me for its succinct and bold portrayal of the Pakistani media. The President was countering one of the many false impressions created by a media industry that has clearly lost any semblance of objectivity. He said, “This impression is [...]

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 [...]

Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is a major tax defaulter in Pakistani media. Geo channel of Jang Group that also publishes two major newspapers (Urdu and English), owes Rs1.68 billion in sales tax to the government. The same group has also a popular music channel that too is also a defaulter of Rs90.40 million sales tax. Other channels which have not [...]

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 [...]

Related post: Haideri Taliban? ISI and Jang Group’s joint propaganda against Pakistan’s Shia Muslims Secret meeting Only last week, a secret meeting took place between the owner and CEO of the Jang Group (Geo TV / The News / Jang / Awam) Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and some important religious scholars who were escorted by none other than a [...]

A news story doing round on Geo TV is of a "Missed Opportunity" by Pakistan's Consul General in New York to present the case of Pakistan at the Nasdaq. Sami Ibrahim of Geo TV can be heard saying, while quoting some official " I think we are stupid that we made this offer to Pakistan." In this very good piece, cross posted from the Express Tribune [...]

The recent floods are the biggest in the history of Pakistan, and have left more than 1600 people dead and thousands desolate and moth-eaten without a single penny left in their pocket. This has led to an intense call for aid from the world fraternity, and consequently has led to a mushroom growth of hundreds of relief groups who are working [...]

Pakistan is in the grip of one of its periodic eruptions of speculation about impending martial law, or at least, it looks like that on TV. For weeks, the largest news channel in the country has been shamelessly promoting the army's role in flood relief as if the army is an opposition party, bravely stepping in to do work that the "corrupt [...]

Syeda Shehla Raza deputy speaker Sindh assembly posted her current facebook  status as saying:  "My visit to RAZZK ABAD camp I saw a unike incidence the repoter of GEO arranged a man who according to his directions gave a statement that "we have provided the food which is four days old" the people there reacted and the repoter and [...]

As soon as I reached home, I heard my brother say, "President Zardari ko joota mara gaya!". Turning on  Geo TV, and waiting for the 11 pm news bulletin, I was surprised to see the reporting. Murtaza Ali Shah, who has been reporting sensationally the ongoing trip of the President to UK was telling his newscasters that "according to sources" a baba [...]