Posts Tagged ‘Yellow Journalism’

In his incomparable poem, “Bachay ki dua” or a “Child’s supplication”, (Baang-e-Dara)  Iqbal presented in 12 lines what should be the mission of any child from his early life. We have read this poem all our lives and without doubt, it is one of the simplest, yet best, poem written by Iqbal. Ansar Abbasi, the apex investigative editor [...]

Related posts: Misrepresentation of Shia genocide In the last week, DAWN has published atleast 2 articles/editorials that dishonestly obscure the carnage faced by the Shia Muslims across the lenght and breadth of Pakistan. Last month, Huma Yusuf's dishonest and lazy articulation was deconstructed here. Similarly, just a few days ago, Naziha [...]

Related article: Naziha Syed Ali justifies Shia genocide in Pakistan as tit-for-tat violence I want to commend sister Naziha for presenting the ongoing genocide of Islamo Marxist groups like Sipah Sahaba/Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat by the All-Powerful Rafzi (Shia) lobby of Pakistan. Everyone in Pakistan knows that the Peaceful Pious Patriots of [...]

Pakistan’s top fiction writer, Shaheen Sehbai, who should be writing novels than editing newspapers while sitting in Dubai is in deep shock for the last many months. having written many a script that has never taken off, he is now forced to write his reports and involve the name of President Asif Zardari for one reason or the other. The report [...]

In a recent article highlighting refined tactics of urban elite affiliates of Pakistan army, Sarah Khan writes: 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 [...]

Cyril Almeida's column on Balochistan (Balochistan, the unattributable story, Dawn, 26 Feb 2012) is an example of how Pakistan's military establishment manufactures confusion and obfuscation through friendly journalists. The column is an example of how false neutrality and contrarian views are used to obfuscate military state's atrocities [...]

سلیم صافی پاکستان کے ان صحافیوں میں سے ہیں جن کے پاکستان کی فوجی اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے ساتھ طالب علمی کے زمانے سے گہرے تعلقات رہے ہیں - زمانہ طالب علمی میں اسلامی جمیعت طلبا میں شامل ر ہے سی آئ اے، آئ ایس [...]

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 [...]

Editor's note: The Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) has threatened that it will suspend transmission of private television channels across the province to protest ‘failure to properly highlight the plight of the people’. LUBP supports this protest and regretfully notes  that Pakistan's mainstream media as well as 98% of Pakistani bloggers [...]

DAWN’s continual slide is best encapsulated in some of the editorial and opinion pieces today.  For instance, Huma Yusuf’s “Sectarian Scourge” is a typical example of the intellectual dishonesty, lazy research and deliberate obfuscation that is prevalent amongst much of Pakisan’s media.  Much of what she has written has been [...]

By Naseer Ahmed

حضرت ابن انشا نے تو عرصہ پہلے فرمایا تھا کہ 'سب مایا ہے '، ہم عموما بات سمجھنے میں وقت لگا دیتے ہیں لہٰذا بڑے عرصے دبدبا میں رہے کہ پتا نہیں کس کی بات کر رہے تھے. اترپر دیش میں اگر کوئی کہے کہ سب [...]

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 [...]

There are many points of merit in Mr. Najam Sethi's editorial for The Friday Times (TFT, 6-12 Jan 2012). While there are some crucial omissions, one must give Mr. Sethi credit for stating a few bold things. The problem is Mr. Sethi himself fails on many of these counts. In the last year, he has: 1. Stated the following in his September [...]

After the ouster of the Military regime in 2008- Pakistan faced ultimate challenges in various forms.  Aftermath of martial law, for sure was deleterious, it may take a decade to overcome its effects and miseries. Elections in 2008 itself proved the anti Martial law stance of people, and the majority of Peoples Party in elections signified the [...]

Source: Pakistan Blogzine Related posts: Deconstructing Husain Haqqani – by Aamir Mughal and Sarah Khan Express Tribune must not distort facts about Husain Haqqani Husain Haqqani, memogate and urban elites’ pandemonium on Twitter  Mullen throws Husain Haqqani under the bus Mansoor Ijaz saga: An example of media mismanagement [...]

Shahzad Roy omitted "naik woh hai jisay moqa nai mila" at his PTI jalsa performance. Imran Khan said to Nawaz Sharif: "mian saab jaan deo, sadi wari aan deo" Source: Pakistan Blogzine Imran Khan's PTI rally in Lahore on 30 October 2011 offered the best of both worlds, i.e., a free concert in which singers including Shehzad Roy, Shah Zaman [...]

Disclaimer: While we may not agree with the entirety of this post, we nonetheless are concerned about how foreign correspondents in Pakistan are gradually embedded in the wishy washy, vague, ambiguous discourse developed by the ISPR mouthpieces in Pakistani media. ******** Do u know the name of the pro-ISI journalist who tried to obfuscate [...]

For the past two days there is an uproar in Pakistan's social and mainstream media about the Government of Pakistan's alleged plan to block google, youtube etc if they did not assist the GoP in criminal investigations against terrorists. As is a usual characteristic of Pakistan's urban (fake) liberals, Rehman Malik's (Federal Interior Minister) [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine According to Cyril Almeida writing in Dawn, 16 Sep 2011: Army must consider that "the costs of non-intervention are higher than the benefits of the status quo." Critical readers of Pakistani media are quite familiar with Cyril Almeida and his double-tongue when its comes to the ostensible criticism 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 [...]

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, [...]

Related posts: In support of Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza: Stop one-sided operation in Lyari President Zardari, no further reconciliation with MQM! – by Dilshad Chandio Editor's Note: It is disappointing to see Cafe Pyala's ambiguous and personal attacks on Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza of PPP. After yesterday's press conference, Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza has become [...]

Related post: PSF activists support Mumtaz Qadri? Poor reporting by the Daily Times: A plea to Shaheed Taseer’s family – by Shahid Khakwani There are a number of key problems in Daily Times' Editorial on Shahbaz Taseer's kidnapping: 1. It completely wipes out the PPP as a persistent victim of the deep state and its proxies in Jihad [...]

The Saudis as well as their Gulf Arab cousins are arming the Taliban. This influx of foreign money and religious ideology is causing irreparable damage to the national identity and integrity as well as the centuries old cultural heritage of Pakistan Since its birth as an independent state, the Pakistani military establishment has focused [...]

Zulfiqar Mirza made comments that infuriated many Urdu-Speaking people, when he said many Urdu Speakers had come hungry and naked to Pakistan. He was speaking after rumours that MQM wanted a separate province of Urdu Speakers. The trouble started when MQ M left government alliance, which led to PPP reinstating Commissioner System, like rest of [...]

Syed Mushahid Hussain, Nasim Zehra, Ejaz Haider, Mosharraf Zaidi, Syed Talat Hussain, Shireen Mazari, Meher Bokhari and Abbas brothers: Take a bow in front of your Yazid Masters! While the massacre of Shias in Pakistan continues unabated, these establishment apologists continue to serve their real masters. In the last few decades, they have [...]

NEW DELHI: Pakistan's former foreign secretary Shaharyar Khan has acknowledged that ISI might have been involved in the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai — in the first-ever confession of its kind by a member of Pakistani establishment. In an interview to an Indian TV channel on Saturday, Khan said that "low-level" ISI personnel may have been involved [...]

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 [...]

by Shoaib Adil Originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'

The first attempt on media and free speech in Pakistan was made by Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan and associates when they tried to black out some passages of the Aug. 11, 1947 speech of Mohammad Ali Jinnah before the constituent assembly. However, Mr. Altaf Hussain, the editor of daily “Dawn” came to know of this, and he thwarted their effort by [...]

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Related post: Threatening telephone call from a proxy of Pakistan army – by Ali Raja A leading television anchor known for blatant "ghalatian" on live television, enough to embarrass his fans in front of likes of Hilary Clinton etc, has abused a critical viewer on SMS with expletives. The television anchor currently working for Dawn TV [...]

Related post: A rebuttal to Mosharraf Zaidi and other apologists of the military state of Pakistan – by Sumantra Maitra Fake criticism of military establishment Fake critical letter to ISI chief by Ejaz Haider Three musketeers and the “PPP abandoned Salmaan Taseer” narrative An open letter to President Zardari — by Shahid [...]

Osama bin Laden was living in a compound just a few hundred meters from Pakistan's leading military academy for years before U.S. forces killed him. But despite the massive evidence suggesting Pakistani complicity in his hiding, much of the country's media has been trying to spin the news. The world is asking how Osama bin Laden, once the [...]

Preamble Commenting on the state of pro-establishment journalism in Pakistan, Ayesha Siddiqa once said: Today, we face a state of military hegemony: political, economic and intellectual control. Today, there is not a single university in Pakistan or a young scholar who is not on the military’s payroll or network. They open shops called [...]

Related readings: Comparison between 1990, 1996 and 2010 Obsession with Zardari; Not in the New Year! The End of the Zardari Government is Near On April 12, 2011, an important milestone was surpassed by the current elected and peoples government of the Pakistan Peoples Party. It quietly went past 1113 days in power, the same number of days [...]

Last week, Pakistan’s Fake Civil Society (FCS) who are actually the real PPP supporters, were using Ijaz-ul-Haq (son of Pakistan's Islamofascist military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq) to diss Babar Awan. Many of them were  inflamed that Babar Awan was representing the Government in reopening the Bhutto trail. We the Fake Peoples Party [...]