Posts Tagged ‘Pakistani Media’
For upholding the Constitution, Prime Minister Gillani gets convicted! – by Farhad Jarral
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has just convicted an elected Prime Minister for following an explicit Constitutional clause (Article 248 (2)) – on the basis of an Ordinance passed by a military dictator, General Musharaf (Contempt of Court Ordinance 2004) – who in turn was empowered to subvert the Constitution by this very same [...]
Is Pakistan’s judiciary influenced by media?
Related article: Ali Ahmed Kurd’s description of the likes of Iftikhar Chaudhry & Khawaja Sharif چیف جسٹس بحالی تحریک کے ورثہ پر ججوں کی ناراضگی!! چونتیس سالہ ڈاکٹر تھیوڈیرا ڈیلس برطانیہ کی یونیورسٹی آف بیڈفرڈشائر میں نفسیات [...]
This is how Pakistani media misrepresents Shia Muslims rally in Pakistan
Related post: While General Kayani looked the other way: Quran-o-Ahlebait Conference in Karachi After failing in the moral duty of highlighting Shia genocide, Pakistan’s media particularly the champions of liberalism and progressive ideology in English press are once again up to their usual tactics of misrepresenting and obfuscating the [...]
FAQs on theories popularized by Pakistani media – by Zalaan
عوام میں پھیلاے گئے چند مفروضات اور ان کے مختصر جوابات پاکستان میں جمہوریت چل نہیں سکتی جواب : کیوں کیا پاکستان کوئی دنیا کا انوکھا ملک ہے ،انڈیا پاکستان سے پانچ گنا بڑا ہے جہاں غربت [...]
Journalism in conflict areas of Pakistan
Individualland Pakistan (IL-Pakistan) is an active non-partisan, not for profit registered civil society group. Since its inception, IL has worked on pertinent issues in respect to governance, rule of law, media communication skills, strengthening civil society and democratic development. It is actively engaged with the Pakistani media. This [...]
Name and Remind: Nadeem F. Paracha’s silence on Shia genocide in Pakistan – by Mustafa
Related posts: 71 Shia Muslims target killed in Pakistan during February 2012 58 Shia Muslims killed in Pakistan during January 2012 Nadeem F. Paracha is Pakistan's leading progressive columnist whose articles and blogs are regularly published at Dawn newspaper. While Nadeem has written on many important topics on Pakistani politics, [...]
Name and Remind: Cyril Almeida’s silence on Shia massacres in Pakistan – by Mustafa
Cyril Almeida is a famous columnist, reporter and assistant editor at Dawn newspaper. Cyril after having begun impressively seems to have fallen in line with the dominant pro-establishment discourse in the mainstream media! In the last year or so, he has worked very hard to misrepresent the situation of Balochistan, besides creating confusion [...]
Name and Remind: Nasim Zehra’s silence on Shia massacres in Pakistan – by Mustafa
The present post is the first in LUBP's series of Name and Remind articles aimed at encouraging and reminding progressive media persons to pay attention to the ongoing, silent genocide of Shia Muslims in Pakistan. Realistically, we do not expect columnists and anchors to cover each incident of attack on Shia Muslims. However, we suggest they [...]
Progressive journalists’ silence on Shia genocide in Pakistan: Name and Remind Policy
The Shia Muslims in Pakistan are the most targeted faith group in terms of sheer numbers. In the first 50 days of 2012 (from 1 Jan to 20 Feb), more than 100 Shias have been massacred through target killings, bomb attacks and suicide attacks; a greater number badly injured and maimed. For example, here is an account of attacks on Shia Muslims [...]
Nusrat Javed on mourning anchors and their favourite politician
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 [...]
Balochistan and Pakistani media’s criminal silence – by Salma Jafar
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 [...]
This is how we self-congratulate us: A comment on Nasim Zehra’s article in Express Tribune
Traditionally lifestyle liberals in Pakistan use an 80-20 mixture formula, i.e., they inject the 20% pro-military establishment discourses within the 80% objective facts or neutral assessments in their articles. Of course we agree with the 80% of their content, however, it is the 20% part (e.g., Taliban = Pashtoon, or, sectarian clashes between [...]
A history of traitor certificates issued by Pakistan’s Teen Jeem
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 [...]
What in the Lord’s name
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 [...]
In Elision Alley: Mortal fear aims to muzzle Pakistani journalists – by Mariana Baabar
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 [...]
Enough is enough – by Shiraz Paracha
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 – by Arshad Mahmood
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 [...]
Pakistan: Moving towards self destruction
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 [...]
Supreme Court, a circus for the media circus – by Shiraz Paracha
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 [...]
War with NATO, suicide for Pakistan – by Shiraz Paracha
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 [...]
National Media Conference: Pakistan’s media, present & future
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 [...]
Criminal cricketers and their accomplices — by Abbas Zaidi
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 [...]
Why Pakistan’s media needs a code of conduct?
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 [...]
Attacks on journalists and media freedom – by Imtiaz Alam
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 [...]
Media must become voice of a billion, not just represent urban population
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 [...]
Pakistani TV: Now and Then
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 [...]
Sobia Ali: An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha
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 [...]
Washington Post’s report on Geo
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 [...]
The great equaliser: Death by 140 characters —BY Dr Mohammad Taqi
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 [...]
Silence Of The Liberal Lambs – By Dr. Taqi
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 [...]
Pakistan and the Search for Identity (Part 1) – by Rusty Walker
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 [...]
Paksitani media: A source of mass depression – by Saad Mansoor
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 [...]
A most dangerous man – by Khaled Ahmed
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 [...]
Rampant Plagiarism
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 [...]
We condemn closure of Matiullah Jan’s Apna Gareban. Why no accountability of journalists?
Related posts: http://criticalppp.com/archives/tag/matiullah-jan 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 [...]
جب پاکستان پر فرقہ واریت کا سایہ تھا– علی سلمان
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 [...]
