Posts Tagged ‘Hamid Mir’

سپریم کورٹ کے تشکیل کردہ تحقیقاتی کمیشن نے ’میمو‘ اسکینڈل کے اہم گواہ منصور اعجاز کی طرف سے اُن کا بیان بیرون ملک ریکارڈ کرنے کی درخواست کو مسترد کرتے ہوئے اُن کو پاکستان آکر کمیشن کے سامنے [...]

Journalist Saleem Shahzad's murder (May 2011) The ISI told the commission that Shahzad kept his contact with them to the last, which, they said, proved he did not feel threatened by the agency! Their assertion that Al Qaeda could have killed Shahzad was backed by their taped conversation with another journalist, Hamid Mir, who “condemns [...]

Make so much noise that everything becomes inaudible-then people would hear what we want them to hear. This is how the Pakistani Establishment is controlling the game at the moment - It is very clear who is who, and what is what. But because of a concentrated effort to remove the current Government and head of state, all the other noises and all [...]

Related Article: President Asif Ali Zardari exclusive interview with Hamid Mir کیپٹل ٹاک کے اینکر پرسن اور مقبول صحافی حامد میر نےاپنے حا لیہ کالم میں صدر آصف علی زرداری سےکٔے گۓا انٹرویو کے تناظر میں ان کی مضبوط,دلیرانہ شخصیت, [...]

“No one has asked for my resignation till now, I’ll tell you when they ask for it,” President Asif Ali Zardari said in his first interview after the memo conspiracy: a recent conspiracy to topple the civilian elected government and unseat the President of Pakistan; by the country's most powerful establishment. Mr. Zardari’s remarks came [...]

"Imran Khan's Lahore rally was the biggest-ever show of political power in decades." The above and similar discourse is currently being injected in Pakistani and international media in the aftermath of a PTI rally in Lahore (30 October 2011) which was successfully engineered and enacted by Pakistan's security establishment as a warning message [...]

Though we live in an age of media abundance, but Pakistani media still be quite unreasonable and irresponsible. The security and intelligence establishment with the help of media owners control and command information and media indusrty here, despite media freedom guarantees. And conspiracy nuts and journalists do what their masters and proprietor [...]

About the author I will not tolerate any criticism of patriotic journalists like Hamid Mir. If one were to reach the pinnacle of investigative journalism, one would then have to strain their neck further upwards to see the exalted level attained by underpaid patriotic reporters like Hamid Mir.  Only a Marxist, anti-imperialist media beacon [...]

Related posts: Pakistani Shias and other rights activists protest the misrepresentation of Shia massacres by Human Rights Cartel Intellectual dishonesty in misrepresenting Shia massacres in Pakistan For the last few days, we have seen a new trend in Pakistani and international media to misrepresent the systematic and ongoing massacres of [...]

      One must commend Omar Waraich on his alleged sense of humour when he wrote: "When Pakistani Journalists Take On the ISI" in The Time in order to present his friends and collegues as being under pressure from the ISI for their alleged "anti-ISI" therefore "anti-establishment" "stance". If Mr. Waraich was being [...]

TV anchor Nusrat Javaid claimed on Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk show late on Friday that he had been sacked by Aaj TV and his show had been taken off air for “technical reasons”. Javaid said he had been accused of bias against Urdu-speaking people and said he was related to many and had absolutely no bias against them. Following Javaid’s [...]

پاکستانی ریاست بہت سے اندرونی و بیرونی خطرات میں گھری ہوئی ہے۔ لیکن افسوس کہ ان خطرات کے مقابلے کیلئے قوم متحد نہیں ہے اور نہ ہی قوم کو متحد کرنے کے لئے ریاست کے پاس کوئی حکمت عملی ہے۔ آئین [...]

While our entire nation reels under the influence of extremism, with no one’s life safe, our journalists have been at the receiving end of targeted killings and terrorism like all of us. With the mushrooming of electronic media in the last decade, where time and breaking news is everything, we see the number of newsmen increase manifold. With [...]

کہتے ہیں کہ حج کے موقع پر منٰی میں شیطانوں کو کنکریاں مارنے کی موقع پرضعیف العمر بڑے میاں کنکریوں کے بجائے شیطانوں کے ٹیلے کوچپّل اٹھا اٹھآ کے ماررہے تھے کسی نے کھا ابّاجی! چپّل نہیں کنکریاں [...]

PEMRA has issued notices to Geo, Dawn News, Dunya News and News One for their irresponsible talks shows in the aftermath of PNS Mehran attack. The most damning aspect is against Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk televised an interview of an alleged eye witness of PNS Mehran attack and created undue sensation and hype without even bothering to verify the [...]

by Shoaib Adil Originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'

Hamid Mir is a well known drama queen, but today he has just beaten all. In his article titled "Imran Khan ka pehla dharna" published in our dearest Daily Jang on April 25, 2011, I had fits of laughter when I read the text after Fauzia Siddiqui sending her bangles to Zardari and Kayani. it goes like this: "Yaqeen keejiya kay unkay iss ailaan [...]

While ZAB's role in the military operation in Balochistan has been criticized by many amongst his friends and foes, the following extract from ZAB's book (cited in Hamid Mir's article in daily Jang) suggests that more than ZAB, it were army generals who were responsible for the brutal operation in Balochistan. In fact, he was very upset about the [...]

ہمارے سند یافتہ اعتدال پسند صحافی جاوید چوہدری جن کے کالمزکو میں انٹر ٹینمنٹ کے صفحے کے طور پر پڑھتا ہوں ایک ان کے موضوعات اور دوسرے اس وجہ سے کہ پاکستانی اخبارات کے انٹر ٹینمنٹ کے صفحات ہفتہ [...]

  The government of Pakistan is desperately looking for a Christian priest to perform the funeral rites of the slain minorities minister, the late Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti. The government has requested several bishops, cardinals, fathers and even the pope, however, all the Christian clergy believes that Shahbaz Bhatti was a blasphemer, hence, he [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Raymond Davis Between March 2007 and March 2009, Justice Tariq Mehmood along with Ali Ahmed Kurd, Asma Jahangir and Athar Minallah plus a few others were the darlings of our right wing media members like Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi, Talat Hussain, Kamran Khan, Kashif Abbasi, Moeed Pirzada, Shahid Masood etc. They [...]

Editor's Note: Our contributer, Razzak Memon, has provided us a list of 5 whom he defines as "liberal fascist". Please bear in mind that while we support his right to express his views, we do not agree with the full article. For instance, we feel that there are some notable differences that Razzak does not highlight in the current post, e.g., the [...]

The new face of moderate Pakistanis, renowned columnist and talk show host, Hamid Mir along with his other counterparts like Javed Chauhdry have coined an oxymoron term "Liberal Fascists". He referred to Jonah Goldberg's book with the same title. Mr. Mir has written some columns on this and in "Josh E Jazbaat" called the Inter services [...]

Desperately seeking ‘liberal-fascist’ According to Hamid Mir in Jang (Jan 20, 2011), a “liberal-fascist is he who supports the US drone attacks on Pakistani territory, opposes the Islamic articles of the 1973 Constitution, supports Musharraf in his rule and is now supporting Zardari, and is in the habit of designating his opponents as [...]

میڈیا کے خلاف میڈیا کا جھوٹ حامد میر پاکستان کا میڈیا چاروں سے حملے کی زد میں ہے۔ پاکستانی میڈیا کے وہ تمام ادارے اور شخصیات جو اپنے عوام میں مقبول ہیں انہیں امریکہ اور بھارت کی حکومتوں کی [...]

Related posts: The blaming the victim brigade and Shahbaz Bhatti's murder An open letter to President Zardari — by Shahid Saeed “Civil” Society must stop blaming the PPP: A rebuttal to Naveen Naqvi and the ‘Twitter Opportunists Club’ The aim of this post is to highlight and confront the "PPP abandoned Taseer" narrative which is [...]

I was looking forward to the program called the “Great Debate” on Geo News last evening. The debate was to be moderated by Iftikhar Ahmed and Hamid Mir. Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s President Saeed Shafiq was the first participant who talked about the problems of power generation and how that is hindering business and [...]

شہید بی بی کو اپنے قاتل کا پتہ تھا قلم کمان …حامد میر وہ نومبر 2007ء کی ایک خوشگوار صبح تھی لیکن محترمہ بینظیر بھٹو کچھ افسردہ اور پریشان نظر آرہی تھیں۔ انہوں نے مجھے زرداری ہاؤس اسلام آباد [...]

One expression of hegemony that in Antonio Gramsci’s view sustains rulers in power, is self-censorship practiced by mainstream media professionals. Here is a case in point: Noted Geo-anchorperson and Jang-columnist, Hamid Mir, in his column last week (November 04) titled “Yeh Nawaz Sharif Bhi Kehtay Thay” claims that on September 14, [...]

Dear Friends, Yesterday the National Day of Republic of Turkey was celebrated in Islamnabad by the Ambassador of Turkey. The Turkish national day is one of the most sought after events in the diplomatic calendar of Islamabad. This time it was all the more important as the surprise Chief Guest was none other than President Asif Zardari. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this column in daily Jang today, Hamid Mir claims that the TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) is supported and directed by the USA to conduct suicide attacks at various targets in Pakistan. In other words, Hamid Mir is now suggesting that the Pakistani Taliban are, for all practical purposes, agents of the CIA, Blackwater, Xe and other [...]

The News and Jang Group are the evangelists without whom Pakistan cannot survive or so it seems. The News knows it all. It has sources everywhere and its investigative powers are much stronger than even the top sleuths in the country. The recent tussle between the Lahore Bar Association and the Lahore High Court / lower judiciary is a cause of [...]

This act of madness committed against Mr Umar Cheema should be condemned in the strongest possible words. Difference of Opinion doesn't give permission to commit such acts of barbarity. In my humble opinion Mr. Umar Cheema is an excellent and no non-sense reporter and this is evident from some his stories . ISLAMABAD: Umer Cheema, reporter [...]

While everyone in Pakistan with a bit of self-respect and integrity can witness the shame and insult brought to judiciary and rule of law by the CJ of Lahore High Court, Hamid Mir of course has a different view. In a previous post (on 17 July 2010), the LUBP commented on "Chief Justice Hamid Mir's verdict in favour of Justice Khwaja [...]

انتقام مگر پیار سے....قلم کمان …حامد میر یہ بہت ہی بُری خبر تھی لیکن یہ بُری خبر مجھ گناہ گار کو ایک بہت پاکیزہ اور مقدس مقام پر موصول ہوئی۔ جس رات میں مکّہ مکرمہ میں عمرہ ادا کرکے مدینہ پہنچا [...]

Source :Dawnblog Hello this is Radio Conspiracy FM-70 and I’m your host and RJ, Ali Azmat. Today in the studios we have with us Pakistan’s leading DJ and rock star from the band Conquering Israel, Ghalat Hussain, hello Ghalat … Hello. You’re bleeding. Yes, I am. Maria B. said the colour red goes well with my wild shining [...]

Source: Jang, 21 June 2010

The LUBP readers are well aware of the fact that the LUBP neither censors nor manipulates difference of opinion. We have always welcomed articles and comments critical of the LUBP. Kashif Naseer has posted today an article critical of the LUBP on his blog, which we are cross-posting below for readers' interest. Source: Kashif Naseer Ka [...]