Posts Tagged ‘Jang Group’

I was always weak in mathematics. Numbers were never my forte and hence, I remained a not so bright student. Work wise, I play with numbers and like analyzing them. I wonder, if I had a better grip on elementary maths, maybe, I would have been more strong academically. Pakistan's apex investigative journalist, Ansar Abbasi has leased the front [...]

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 [...]

Related posts: Who is Shakeel Anjum? Javid Naseer Rind, another Baloch journalist kidnapped and silenced by the Deep State In the last two days, Pakistan's liberal elites and rights activists on social media (Twitter in particular) were seen extremely worried about the daughter of an ex-army soldier Shamsul Anwar, a resident of [...]

Related posts: HRW is concerned about the fear of judicial over-reach in Pakistan: Interview with Ali Dayan Hasan AHRC appeal: DG ISI Gen Shuja Pasha must be prosecuted for hatching conspiracy against democracy Critical readers of Pakistan's politics are aware that it is not only Pakistani generals but also their loyalists in judiciary and [...]

It seems that PML-N’s unofficial spokesman, Ansar Abbasi has a front page spot dedicated for his “reports” in The News. His reports are usually in forms of discussions with majority “unnamed” sources and a very few known personalities. Like Syed Adil Gilani of Transparency International, who gives Ansar Abbasi first look at his upcoming [...]

Firstly, we would like to commend the Pakistan Peoples Party led government for realizing the importance of alternative forms of media on internet. The new web based social media is a new emerging domain where readers, listeners and viewers have now access to millions of alternative citizen based sources of information such as blogs, facebook, [...]

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 [...]

اپنا (APPNA) پاکستانی doctors جو امریکا میں رہتے ہیں ان کی تنظیم ہے. ہم لوگ ہر سال اپنا کی میٹنگ کرتے ہیں جس میں ہم لوگ پاکستانی صحافی اور سیاست دانوں کو بھی بلاتے ہیں. ان کو بلانے کا مقصد کبھی تو [...]

To call Jang’s publications and its employed journalists as a group of desperate and ghatia people would be an understatement. In today’s (6th July, 2011), the lowest level of reporting can be seen from a newsgroup which is a market leader. Sabir Shah has reported that according to “middle-market” tabloid from England called Daily Mail, a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 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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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 [...]

The Abbottabad Saniha Commission has been under the scanner from day one. Firstly the government was being lambasted for not creating the commission and when it finally did under the chair of a “senior judge” of our azad adliya, it is again under the scanner. Karo to phanso, na karo to phanso.  Off course immediately after announcement, we [...]

Raheem Ullah Yousafzai, Mujeeb Ur Rehman Shami, Haroon Ur Raheed (columnist), Talat Hussain, Zahid Hussain (Wall Street Journal), Ijaz Haider, Moeed Peerzada, Qatreena Hussain, Mehar Bokhari, Sana Bucha, Hamid Mir, Javed Ch., Saleem Safi, Arshad Sarif, Kashif Abbasi, Ibsaar Aalam, Mubashir Luqman, Nadeem Malik, Rana Mubashar and Haroon [...]

Ansar Abbasi is one of our favorite journalists. He has knowledge of everything – investigations, politics, judiciary, fiqh, social lives to live, military, wars, economy, media management etc. It is safe to say that what Kamran Khan was to Benazir government in the 1990’s, Ansar Abbasi tried his best to emulate his Karachi based colleague in [...]

It is fair to say that the most innocent in Pakistan are the media and their masters who treat them as puppets. We have the likes of Syed Talat Hussain, Javed Chaudhry, Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi, Kamran Khan, Mushtaq Minhas etc who have been harping the tune of “Ghairat” and “Pakistan’s sovereignty being compromised” in the aftermath of [...]

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Editor’s Note: Sana Bucha has deconstructed the “lies” that we as Pakistanis have been made to believe over the course of many decades. Her article can be defined as a great effort in highlighting the ills that we face: the threat of our own security establishment.  It is also sad that Sana is writing for the same group of newspapers that [...]

A simmering difference between the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and the the Jang Group has turned into a full-blown legal warfare, with acting Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Dr Abdul Jabbar accusing the Jang Group of a personal vendetta against the federal government and by saying that [...]

Yeah, it's a well known fact that the Spanish-American war in 1898 was a result of "yellow journalism", and it is also established truth that 'Jang Group' played a leading role in Salman Taseer's assassination. The Asia Bibi saga unlashed a furious debate on Blasphemy Law and we had watched lots of trial shows talk shows on Geo TV and read [...]

In which country names, passport numbers, visa type and validity of visas of people are accessible to “journalists”? It happens only in Pakistan. Our very dearest, Ansar Abbasi, is one such journalist who has access to all sort of information who publishes it in his "report". We suspect that such information is fed to him by the spy agencies [...]

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 [...]

Related article: In defense of Shah Mahmood Qureshi – by Javed Fazal Pakistan's (military establishment-free) media has found an overnight 'HERO' roughly a month after they found 'Ghazi' Mumtaz Qadri. Surprisingly, this time around he is from the 'krupt' Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party. Presenting to you: The honest, the dignified [...]

Currently a hoax is in circulation about President Asif Ali Zardari's alleged marriage to a PPP worker in the USA. Apparently the Zardari phobes of Islamist and urban middle class backgrounds are making use of yet another 'opportunity' to bash Zardari in their own ways. While a senior PPP official who would remain unnamed has categorically [...]

Related article: Lets have a revolution: Yeh, Yeh, Yeh! – by Razzak Memon Context: An FCS Meeting In a recent kitty party lunch held at Karachi's famous Korean Restaurant near the KPT Underpass in Clifton, it was resolved by the attending mothers that we need to call our monthly lunches as “Civil Society Meetings”. Upon questioning we [...]

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, [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Tariq Butt Apparently the following column in today's Jang newspaper (15 Dec 2010) is written by Tariq Butt (a member of the Ansar Abbasi led Jamaat-e-Islami wing of the Jang Group), however, the column in fact seems to have been written by the CEO of Jang Group / Geo TV who was recently exposed for his willing [...]

Related article: A glaring example of how ISI dictates Pakistani newspapers: The case of a missing WikiLeak cable The liars collective If you think people like Zaid Hamid, Aamir Liaquat and Atiqa Odho are kind of silly with their usual convoluted rants studded with the most worn-out clichés regarding India, Israel, Islam and more – [...]

 According to a top headline in 11th December's Jang and The News, public's trust in government has plummeted as Rs. 60 billion withdrawn from Defense Saving Schemes. Now, we all know about the credentials of Jang and The News in “Investigative Journalism” but combine that with “Economic Investigation”, we have a doomsday scenario in our [...]

Related article: A glaring example of how ISI dictates Pakistani newspapers: The case of a missing WikiLeak cable Let Us Build Pakistan rightly claims that ‘Jang group’ is inherently biased against democratic politics, is continuously propagating misconceptions about Pakistan Peoples Party led civilian government and is also preaching [...]

In its obsession with politicians' corruption, Jang has equated bad-unwani (corruption) with dehshat-gardi (terrorism). The following news item was most probably a joint production of Muhammad Saleh Zaafir and Ahmad Noorani, both of them members of the extremist Deobandi (ISI) wing of the Jang Group currently headed by Ansar [...]

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 [...]

In my immediate response to Asma Jahangir’s victory titled “Asma Jahangir’s victory is a loss for Jang Group’s yellow journalism” I had expressed my glee over the symbolic nature of her victory. It was also heartening to see a wide variety of response to mood in this camp. That is the beauty of freedom of speech. I listen to you and you [...]

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 [...]

In simple words...second loss in one week.

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 [...]