Posts Tagged ‘Shaheen Sehbai’

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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 [...]

I had not been following the Riko Diq Project hoo-haa simply for the fact that it was “scooped” by none other than novelist Shaheen Sehbai in The News. Titled “$260 billion gold mines going for a song, behind closed doors” it was another attempt by living in cuckoo land journalists like Shaheen Sehbai to prove their credentials as people [...]

اک کہانی سنو سویرے سویرے نذیر ناجی وکی لیکس میں 2008ء اور 2009ء کے حوالے سے فوجی بغاوت کی جو خبریں‘ تجزیئے‘ حتیٰ کہ جنرل کیانی کا نام لے کر کھلی دعوتیں کہ وہ آگے بڑھ کر اقتدار پر قبضہ کر لیں‘ محض [...]

Am I missing a point? Weren't Ansar Abbasi and Shaheen Sehbai always propogating the fact that the CJ was restored by General Kayani by holding a gun to the PPP's head? Why are opinion pieces ‘Top Stories’ in The News? Source: Pakistan Media Watch July 24th, 2010 The News continues to mistake blatant opinion columns for actual news, [...]

Shaheen Sehbai in his article on 28th June has instigated on Mian brothers to bid adieu to the Charter of Democracy and unfurl a new series of disrespect to the people’s mandate. Earlier, some other rightist columnists have also suggested the unleashing of the efforts to destabilise PPP government in the Centre. And in the words of Shaheen [...]

Source: Pakistan Media Watch One would think that after a 42-year career in the field of journalism, Shaheen Sehbai would have grown a slightly thicker skin. Instead, it appears that he’s grown quite a bit of cheek! Apparently the Group Editor of The News had his feeling hurt by an article penned by MNA Azeem Daultana and has responded with [...]

After having been stopped for writing defaming material against Riaz Laljee, the king of “churnalism”, Shaheen Sehbai has gone to court seeking damages from Azim Daultana for his article Differentiating between journalism and ‘churnalism’. Good going Sehbai sahab. Also see who’s representing him – Babar Sattar. The notice also talks [...]

Skunk is a small animal found in the wild. It looks beautiful from distance. It has beautiful white stripe going through middle of his body all the way through its tail. One of the defense this animal has against its enemies is to spray a liquid with a strong foul smelling odor. While abroad on a hunting trip, I had the experience of such [...]

First published on Pak Tea House Apropos “Information Minister vs journalists” by Usman Manzoor published in The News International of May 27, 2010, the reporter has desperately tried to use the space of this newspaper to establish the now controversial credentials of its Group Editor, Mr. Shaheen Sehbai. Why he felt the need to do so may [...]

Shaheen Sehbai could have easily been a better playwright if he focused on churning conspiracy driven soap operas for Geo TV than to come out with his viewpoints which are getting funnier by the day to read. As they say “A successful deal has many fathers while a dud deal is a fatherless child”, Shaheen Sehbai claims to be one of the [...]

  We at Let Us Build Pakistan have been highlighting the way some elements in the media have been targeting the PPP, its leadership and people who are close to its leadership for the last two and half years. Whenever the PPP is in power, we hear the same stories of corruption and malpractices by the people at the top. Pakistan's President, [...]

  It seems that after Shahid Masood, the fate of Shaheen Sehbai has also been sealed at Jang group of newspapers.  In today's Jang newspaper, a detailed rebuttal for Shaheen Sehbai's June 12th analysis is published. Mr Sehbai leveled some allegation against the government of Pakistan for mismanagement and corruption in the use of aid for [...]

Shaheen Sehbai, the God father of Pakistan’s conspiracy theorists has come out in defense of his prodigal sons i.e. Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi and Shahid Masood in his “Viewpoint” from Washington that was published in The News of May 18, 2010. Titled “Mukhtar lets the cat out, but PM may quit or he can dissolve assemblies” [...]

Hamid Mir in his article in The News titled “Grand Plot Against Media” published on 17th May, 2010 has pinpointed Asif Zardari and the Federal Government for having hatched a conspiracy to malign and blackmail the Pakistani media especially Jang Group. The article can be read on http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=239716. The [...]

Here is Shaheen Sehbai's most recent article in support of GHQ's interests at the cost of the democratic government. The article is being presented on this blog to archive Sehabi's dark role in the democratic history of Pakistan. .......... The PPP warpath, superman and the dilemma of stakeholders Viewpoint Monday, May 10, 2010 By [...]

Here is an Urdu poem in 'appreciation' of Dr Shahid Masood. (more...)

Source: Pakistan Media Watch Amir Mateen’s attempt a script writing seems to have disappointed ‘The Godfather’ of wild storylines, Amir’s mentor Shaheen Sehbai. In today’s The News (23 Apr 2010), Sehbai shows Mateen how to really write an attack column. Sehbai’s column targets his favourite topic, of course, Asif Ali [...]

تمام مسائل کا حل ----- صالح قیادت کا قیام ========================= پاکستان آزاد ہو جانے کے بعد بھی غلام ہے امریکہ کا ، ورلڈ بینک ،آئی۔ایم ایف اور عالمی استعمار کا ہماری پالیسیاں واشنگٹن میں بنتی ہیں ، [...]

مارچ کب ہو گا؟ میرے پیارے شاہین صہبائی میرا یہ خط جس وقت تمہاری نظروں سے گزرنے گا مارچ کی پندرہ تاریخ ہو چکی ہوگی ، مطلب یہ کھ آدھا مارچ گزر گیا ہو گا بغیر کسی مارچ کے. شاہین تم تو سمجھتنے ہو کھ [...]

Courtesy: Pakistan Media Watch This is the first post in a series on ‘Wishful Journalism’ – an unfortunate practice that seems to be taking place more than actual reporting in some parts of the media. There is a difference between wishing for something and reporting something. Unfortunately, this is too often lost on our journalists [...]

Thanks: Sohni Dhurti “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” Albert Einstein. One of the best lessons Islam teaches us and the one that most of us hardly care about, is the [...]

To my recallable memory collections, I can never fetch a single incident when somebody actually took pictures of the page from guest book placed at Father of the Nation’s mausoleum, except one page remarked and signed by Asif Ali Zardari after he assumed the role of the President of Pakistan and visited Quaid’s grave. The intention was to show [...]

Tahir Sarwar Mir's rebuttal to an op-ed by the veteran CIA agent Shaheen Sehbai (The News): (more...)

Mr Shaheen Sehbai, the Group Editor, The News International (Jang Group of Newspapers) had written in the year 2000 that "Every one in the present morally, intellectually and financially depleted Pakistan --the print media and its well-entrenched "gurus" among the foremost --- is shouting from the roof top for accountability of every one [...]

How many politicians have to die to please you enough? We previously wrote that enemies of democracy taunt President Zardari for what they term as his cowardice to refrain from exposing himself in public meetings. The main aim of the Mullah Media Alliance (Pakistani Taliban Union of Journalists) here is to help their foot-soldiers by [...]

To: Shaheen Sehbai, Editor, The News From: MSR, Editor-in-Chief Re: Violation of policy I am constrained to bring to your notice several, and repeated, violation of editorial policies clearly understood between us. Infact, these policies have also been agreed in writing. On 26th March, 2001, you had published a one sided, incorrect and [...]

Who will Bell the Bad, Fat Cats? Shaheen Sehbai Every one in the present morally, intellectually and financially depleted Pakistan -- the print media and its well-entrenched "gurus" among the foremost --- is shouting from the roof top for accountability of every one else. Yet no one has seriously demanded, nor does any one appear to be [...]

Frequently in their TV appearances (on Geo TV) and newspaper columns (in Jang and The News), agents of anti-democracy establishment, e.g. Shaheen Sehbai, Dr Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi and their cronies, have openly or implicitly invited General Kayani to intervene into political affairs of the country in an ultra-constitutional manner. In the [...]

By Abdul Nishapuri'Sultani Gawah' is an Urdu word meaning 'crown witness of the prosecution'. Those who understand the nature of power politics in Pakistan know where exactly crown (power) lies in Pakistan. Not very long ago, in 2002, Shaheen Sehbai was forced to leave the country because of his anti-ISI and anti-Pakistan Army columns. However, [...]

Talk of belling the catTuesday, December 30, 2008By Anjum NiazThe writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reportingShaheen Sehbai’s surgical strike on President Zardari in this newspaper on Dec 26 offered an eclectic mix of facts and speculation. While swathing populist sentiments of [...]

Pakistan's so-called free press has become a beggar's market where cheap and shoddy journalism is sold to the highest bidder.... writes Shaheen Sehbai. Who will Bell the Bad, Fat Cats?Shaheen Sehbai January 5, 2000This article has been submitted for publication to all major newspapers in PakistanEvery one in the present morally, intellectually [...]

Aftab Iqbal's column in Nawaiwaqt 29 December 2008 exposing Shaheen Sehbai's request to President Zardari to become an ambassador. Because of Sehbai's anti-Pakistan record, he (more...)

Shaheen SehbaiBackground InformationShaheen Sehbai is a Pakistani journalist and the current Group Editor of daily English newspaper The News International. He has also worked as a reporter for the Dawn newspaper in Washington D.C. and then later was became the editor for The News International in (more...)

Munno bhai writes on the campaign of the Mullah Media Alliance against the political class and their insistence that NRO must be dry-cleaned in the 'fauji laundry'. (more...)

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