Posts Tagged ‘Pakistani Media’

نصرت جاوید کا شمار شعلہ بیان اور مرثیہ خواں؛ قومی غیرت کے نام پر 'ریٹنگ، دولت اور شہرت کےپیچھے ہلکان ہونے والے' اینکرز میں نہیں ہوتا، بلکہ ان کا شماران دوچارصحافی حضرات میں ہوتا ہے، جو عقل [...]

This post is in support to the Baloch Students’ call to shut down the Pakistani news channels and Pakistani Media’s consistent bias towards Balochistan. Balochistan is in the midst of a ferocious insurgency; the fourth of its kind against the injustices leveled against the people by the federal government and its associated agencies. In the [...]

غیر جمہوری ریاستوں میں جو لوگ آ فاقی انسا نی حقوق، جمہوری آزادیوں، عوام کو اختیارات اور انصاف منتقل کرنےکی تحریکیں چلاتے ہیں اور نۓ جدیر نظام کی بشارت دیتے ہیں، ان کے نام ریاست غداری کا [...]

  update: There has been alterations and additions made to accommodate few other articles on the same issue The Supreme Court has stated that under the Article 184-3, they have jurisdiction to hear the petition on alleged memo, because fundamental rights are directly involved. The three fundamental rights that are directly at issue [...]

Mortal fear aims to muzzle Pakistani scribes. Many are defiant. Weeks before the Asia Times Online bureau chief, Syed Saleem Shahzad, was brutally killed, I was driving down from Islamabad to Rawalpindi, nonchalantly swishing down the expressway. Suddenly, a vehicle zipped past me from the right, swung across my path, perhaps less than a [...]

You have ruled us enough You have ruined us enough You have raped our beloved country enough You have destroyed our future and shattered our dreams Enough is enough. Your concepts are weird, your plans are insane You are devious and deceitful You are cowards and timid You are cruel and ruthless You are cunning and conniving You are [...]

National Media Conference: The two-day of media conference entitled “Pakistan Media: Present and Future” arranged by Individualland(IL) in collaboration with Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (FNF), drew a large number of journalists from all parts of the country including a strong representation from a frontline province in the war [...]

No one knows what Pakistani establishment has in its mind & what it is planning & planning for whom's benefits? But we say surely not for people of Pakistan. However, one thing's for sure, that it's leading us towards death & destruction, as: James Jones, former US general and National Security Adviser, has said that Pakistan is [...]

The Judiciary in Pakistan was not free in the past and it is not independent now. The military has been using the Supreme Court of Pakistan as a rubber stamp but now there are serious questions about the integrity and impartiality of the Supreme Court. Acting as an arm of the army, the Supreme Court appears to have a political agenda and [...]

A low-intensity military conflict between Pakistan and the United States is going on in Afghanistan and along the Pak-Afghan border since the U.S. military invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Both sides have been using proxies and guerrilla war tactics to harm each other’s interests. Nevertheless a large-scale and direct military conflict [...]

The two-day of media conference entitled “Pakistan Media: Present and Future” arranged by Individualland(IL) in collaboration with Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (FNF), drew a large number of journalists from all parts of the country including a strong representation from a frontline province in the war against terrorism, Khyber [...]

The three cricketers are proven guilty and are thus criminals. They are shameless too. They never accepted their crime. Amir did confess, but only when it was too late and that too on the advice of his lawyer Now that corruption charges have been proved against Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, and Mohammad Amir, some Pakistanis are doing what they [...]

Pakistan's media landscape has exploded over the last decade. But it is still the most dangerous place on earth to be a journalist and there are now calls for a strict code of conduct to protect the press and the public. Nosheen Abbas investigates the chaotic world of Pakistani journalism. In 2008 a colleague of mine was reporting from the [...]

Media Commission Pakistan held its second conference on 15th October in Islamabad on "attacks on journalists and media freedom". About 150 editors and leading journalists attended the conference. Following are excerpts from the declaration issued by the conference. The editors, senior journalists and civil society activists from across the [...]

Here is a piece of advice from ex-Indian President Abdul Kalam to Indian media. The advice is equally applicable to Pakistanis media, which (dominated by right wingers and fake liberals) remains urban, middle-class centric and sesnational events-focused. Abdul Kalam's advice that “Journalists must grow roots in every village” is particularly [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHQQyHxTMA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoVKjUpi0q4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmZ-A5b7FE&feature=related Dear friends, We have dozens of private TV channels in Pakistan producing political talk shows and entertainment programs. For comparison purposes I would like to share [...]

      Editor's Note: We are pleased to cross-post Nadeem F. Paracha's interview to Sobia Ali and Raza Raja Habib from Huffington Post.  The interview is an articulate discussion of politics, sociology and culture.  Such interviews are needed to highight the mindset of Pakistan's youth and we also recommend the following [...]

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 [...]

Related Article: The horrors of media capitalism and the orthodox televangelist whores -By Zeeba Hashmi The man, who claims to be imbued with love for Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), is seen and heard uttering profanities while getting ready to recite and explain one of the most revered eulogies (qaseedah) of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). But that [...]

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 [...]

About the author: Rusty Walker is an Independent Political Analyst, educator, author, Vietnam veteran-era U.S. Air Force, from a military family, retired college professor, former Provost (Collins College, U.S.A.), artist, musician and family man. Rusty Walker is an ardent supporter of Pakistan. The following essay examines nine common [...]

Strolling across various Pakistani blogs, I came across a post which very aptly displays one aspect of Pakistani media that is a playing a very significant part in plaguing the Pakistani urban classes with mass depression. The entertainment industry in Pakistani leaves one depressed and saddened leaving one curious as to what in world are they [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on July 15 released on bail Malik Ishaq, leader and founder of Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, on grounds of “lack of evidence.” The man had been facing a number of cases at the antiterrorism court in Lahore charging him with hundreds of murders. He remained in jail for 14 years while evidence against him [...]

Here is something from my timeline: "@saeedshah Sana Bucha's column also lifted the headline and the "sulk" theme from my Economist piece" Its just highlights disappointing and unfortunate standard of our media that a renowned anchor would plagiarise this blatantly in a national newspaper. I guess the quotes speak for themselves. Its [...]

TV Anchors and journalists of Pakistan's media corporate industry always give lectures on "accountability" and ethics, moreover, miss no opportunity to malign civilian elected representatives of pakistani people. Talk shows and their howling and yelling anchors talk about accountability for government officials, politicians and especially about [...]

Originally Posted at: BBC URDU کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے رہنما ملک اسحاق کی رہائی نے پاکستان کے اس دور کی یاد تازہ کر دی ہے جب پاکستان شدت پسندی کے خلاف امریکہ کی شروع کردہ کسی جنگ کا حصہ بھی نہیں تھا اور نہ ہی [...]

Today, most leaders say they would have stood up defiantly (dutt jata) in the face of the American request to join its war on terror. Former president Pervez Musharraf is being abominated for kowtowing to the Americans; and General Parvez Kayani is trying to make amends by going dutt and teaching the Americans a lesson 10 years later. The truth [...]

President Zardari called Nawaz maulana, with multiple innuendos: that he was the illicit political offspring of General Zia, that he was a covert abettor of jihadi elements in Punjab, and that he was aligning with Jamaat Islami in the AJK polls The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has finally decided that familiar is safe and to hell with [...]

Balochistan is the largest among Pakistan's four provinces, comprising 43 percent of land area of the country. Balochistan is fundamentally a clannish society possessing its own history, culture, behavior and norms. Balochistan became part of Pakistan as a consequence of agreements reached on 17th and 27th of March, 1948. In these accords, [...]

Here is a copy of an FIR (First Investigation Report) which has been provided to LUBP through a reliable source. Our source claims that the report is 100% authentic. Overall, the FIR highlights the moral and ethical bankruptcy of Pakistani media and its owners and managers. The petitioner appears to have some genuine grievances against Mr. [...]

The courts should remain defenders of fundamental rights and personal liberties. When the Facebook ban was issued, the court appeared to be playing to the gallery of populist radicals A long time ago, when I was a college student in the jihadi era of Ziaul Haq, I had a sitting with late Dr Eqbal Ahmad along with a few friends. We asked a very [...]

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 [...]

A number of interrogations about the causes of extreme radicalism & terrorism in Pakistan occupy every psyche – from a lay man to the ruler of the state, no one considers his life secure in this country. Indeed, that is a genuine concern. However, rolling the folios of the precedent enables one to grasp some facts about its underpinning, and [...]

Individualland is literally a cyber space where the world's largest minority, the individual is considered the most important. Media is called the mirror of a society. But do our media work on this principle? The grotesque images of people being killed in conflicts, bomb blasts, and a wide array of other problems have changed the outlook [...]

Dear General Pasha, I write this letter to you in the wake of the gruesome and gratuitous murder of Syed Saleem Shahzad, friend to many, including myself. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate, the agency you head, is being accused of Saleem’s murder. You must also know that the ISI is widely reviled and dreaded at home. For [...]

Reporters often put themselves in harm's way as they try to dig up the truth about Islamic militant groups, shadowy intelligence agencies and the possible links between the two. One reporter recently ended up dead; another has a harrowing tale. By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times June 6, 2011 Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan— The [...]

Related Article: Then they came for me -by Babar Sattar Pakistan's dreaded spy agency, the ISI, is back in the spotlight, accused of murdering journalist Saleem Shahzad. The agency's engagement with the media has become progressively more virulent as the "war on terror" has progressed. BBC Urdu editor Aamer Ahmed Khan asks whether anyone can [...]