Posts Tagged ‘Yellow Journalism’

An analysis by Chaudhry Fawad Hussain (more...)

Reflections on the media —Munir AttaullahFor optimum results, we need to make rational assessments in the present, not ruefully lament much later having been misled by attractive slogans, hypothetical promises, and alluring equivocationAnd be these juggling fiends no more believ’d,That palter with us in a double sense;Win us with honest [...]

Abbas Ather's analysis of the anti-democracy (more...)

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Long March and the role of Pakistan Army. Same story (Long March), same source (General Karamat's article). Look at the twist in the version offered by (more...)

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Is Ansar Abbasi an investigative journalist? Or a police tout?Contempt of court based on an unsubstantiated statement attributed to Hazrat Nanno Goraya? (more...)

Finally, the notorious yellow journalist Ansar Abbasi summoned in a court of law. News against judge: LHC admits contempt plea for regular hearing Staff Report LAHORE: Justice Mian Najamuz Zaman of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday admitted for regular hearing a petition seeking contempt proceedings against a reporter and chief [...]

The main target of Ansar Abbasi seems to discredit the largest political parties in Pakistan through all possible means, fair or unfair, and pave way for the shariat of Amir-ul-Momineen Mullah Omar and his Naib Khalifah Baitullah (more...)

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Ansar Abbasis is corrupt: PM’s ex-secy BashirLAHORE: While commenting on a case related to the award of extra marks to the chief justice’s daughter, the prime minister’s former press secretary Zahid Bashir has claimed that a senior journalist working for English daily The News is ‘involved in corruption’, a private TV channel said on [...]

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 [...]

Ansar Abbasi, you are a third class blackmailer, a yellow journalist, a supporter of the Taliban. Shame on you.....Son defends father in open letterMonday, December 29, 2008 (The News)By our correspondentISLAMABAD: Basit Riaz Sheikh, son of Deputy Director General (DDG) Intelligence Bureau Riaz Sheikh, wrote an open letter to The News to defend [...]

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...)

Ansar Abbasi's column on the Mumbai terrorist attacks and Ajma Kasab. Abbasi is in the 'denial' mode. Do you know why? Because he is most probably on the payroll of the Taliban. He is a stauch supporter of Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, whom he considers as heroes of Islam. Shame on you Ansar Abbasi. You are a traitor to your own (more...)

On December 16, 1971 the Pakistan army in Bangladesh unconditionally surrendered to the joint Indian and Bangladeshi forces. With the signing of the Instrument of Surrender, Bangladesh came into being and united Pakistan was at an end.However, in Pakistan the state-controlled and censored media was in denial. The Dawn newspaper, published from [...]

Let us not isolate PakistanPresident Asif Ali Zardari has told an American talk-show host that if there is “concrete evidence” against any Pakistanis for the Mumbai attack, the suspects would not be handed over to India but tried in Pakistan. He insisted that the state of Pakistan was in no way responsible for the attack as it was the work of [...]

A turning point — Asma Jahangir The recent Mumbai terror attacks should be the turning point. Governments of the region are challenged to support an open and transparent investigation in order to identify and prosecute the masterminds behind such carnage. They must have the moral courage to face the truth The recent carnage in Mumbai is [...]

For, updated report, click here:Ansar Abbasi with his venom against Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar....It is interesting to note that in November 2008, conscience of the Editorial Board of the Jang Group made them to publish a concocted, maligning story against Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar, however, in 2006, the same Editorial Board of the Jang [...]

The ‘image’ and the ‘reality’A suicide bomber blew himself up at the exit gate of a packed Qayyum Stadium in Peshawar on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 13. The occasion was the conclusion of the Third Inter-Provincial Games at which speakers were congratulating the NWFP government for staging the event and “improving” [...]

hould cabinets be big or small?The PPP government has finally filled the posts of ministers lying vacant since it took power. Amid loud complaints by critics about “vacant ministries”, twenty more ministers have been included in what is perceived as the first expansion of the cabinet after the PMLN ministers resigned over the lawyers’ [...]

Have you noticed how a small group of self-righteous lawyers and journalists are turning Asif Zardari and Rehman Malik into villains now? This group of lawyers and journos are bent on spoon feeding the Pakistanis how to tell right from wrong. For six months they have been celebrating Zardari and Malik when it suited their narrow objective. But [...]

Charges of irresponsible journalism: Sympathies with TalibanIn the aftermath of the Marriott Hotel Bombing, Abbasi was criticized by various members of Pakistani society, for his, what was termed as "deflective" jornalism. For example, in its editorial on 22 September 2008, Daily Times wrote that:"Regrettably, there was some “deflective” [...]

In his love with Imran Khan, Haroon-ur-Rashid has become blind. He is counting the number of flags of JUI and PPP. What does he think about the number of Imran Khan's PTI flags in the so called movement for the restoration of judiciary.He compares this 'storm-in-a-tea-cup' movement by only two parties, Imran Khan' PTI and Qazi Hussain Ahmed's [...]

Kashif Abbasi is a media juooni: The TV face/ mouth pieces of Taliban in Pakistan. Regime of ‘hostile’ TV anchors Daily Times - Saturday, June 21, 2008 Two particular encounters on two TV channels Thursday night revealed the mind of the “misplaced or hostile anchor” in Pakistan. The first was a discussion among a group of TV [...]

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This time, the notorious mouthpiece of Taliban/Al-Qaeda/Sipah-e-Sahaba, Ansar Abbasi has spoken against Nawaz Sharif's PML-N. Abbasi is in pain because Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N have decided to support the PPP/ANP/JUI coalition in the Center and the NWFP in their war against terrorists of Taliban/Al-Qaeda/Sipah-e-Sahaba. Shame on you Ansar [...]

Ayaz Amir is the latest spokesman of the Taliban in the parliament. While pretending to be a neutral columnist, he always makes it a point to play to the gallery by criticizing the Pakistan's war on terror. Why does not Ayaz Amir resign from the PML(N)'s membership and then stage his 'neutral' criticism (more...)

Terrorism’s psy-war is bad newsThe terrorists have killed at least 40 people and wounded 90 in the Orakzai Tribal Agency from among a jirga gathered on Friday to form a lashkar against the Taliban. The jirga had already burnt the houses of some local Taliban and imposed heavy fines on two others. The gathering was hit by a suicide-bomber driving [...]

Ansar Abbasi, the notorious Taliban supporter, tried to justify the terrorist attacks on Islamabad Marriott by writing a pack of lies that there were many American marines in the hotel who were busy in some secret operations, and that's why the hotel was attacked. The bloody Abbasi (and his supporter Kashif Abbasi) must be asked how many US [...]

Ansar Abbasi, Kashif Abbasi, Hamid Mir, and other Taliban lovers will be the first ones to migrate to the USA and the UK if Taliban takeover Islamabad (more...)

Ansar Abbasi, Irfan Siddiqi, other PPP haters and their 'Khopay' (blinkers) - Disinformation cell against democracy in Pakistan - By Dr. Babar Awan (more...)

By SHAFI BALOCH (Daily The Nation)KARACHI - The ongoing campaign against President Asif Ali Zardari regarding his poor knowledge of English during his recent visit to Mazar-e-Quaid has proved a malicious and wicked electronic campaign that has tarnished his image in the eyes of the general public and analysts who did not bother to verify the [...]

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MNA threatens to sue journalist Tuesday, September 23, 2008 ISLAMABAD: Mumtaz Alam Gillani, member national assembly (PPP) on Monday strongly contradicted a news item appearing in a section of the press on September 21 that he was witness to a US embassy white truck carrying steel boxes, which were unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott [...]

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Abbas Ather, Daily Express, 2 September