Why Controversy over Maulana Jameel’s Remarks?

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 23, this year led a long telethon, televised live on TV channels, to mobilise funds from the people at large to help the deserving persons affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking on the event, the Premier Imran appealed to the people to give maximum funds for the “Ehsaas Programme.” The transmission was joined by news anchors representing p ...

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Media Need Reformation

By Asif Haroon Raja Gen Musharraf after coming to power through a military coup on October 12, 1999 decided to boost up and modernize electronic media by allowing foreign ownership in the name of freedom of expression and to show soft image of Pakistan to the west. His concept of enlightened moderation also had similar ambition of promoting liberalism. Private TV channels were given a free hand to broadcast ...

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Pakistani Media: The Presstitutes or a Bull in China Shop? – I

By Sohail Parwaz Since last few weeks a great, on screens and in columns, media war going on. It kindled when a mysterious life attempt was made on a private channel’s anchorperson Hamid Mir and soon went up into the flames. Ever since then there is no ceasefire. It’s less of bringing bad name to the Pakistan but more of it to Pakistani media. Fortunately or unfortunately Pakistani media’s act of washing di ...

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Uncompromising Media Need Positive Changes

 By Sajjad Shaukat Every one knows that besides facing multi-faceted problems like acute financial crisis, unemployment, so¬c¬ial inequities, lack of security, lack of sound educational base, least technological prowess, loadshading of electricity and gas in wake of continuous acts of terrorism, Pakistan is also coping with external intrigues which are posing serious challenges to  the people as well as the ...

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Media Forms Negative Public Opinion

  By Sajjad Shaukat This fact has been recognised by all the intellectuals that media play a key role in forming the public opinion. It has the power to mould peoples’ views in positive or negative sense.  In the western countries, journalists enjoy freedom of expression, but they do not cross the limits by exaggerating some chaotic event or development which could result in misguiding the general masses. I ...

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Media power and responsibility

By: Shamshad Ahmad In an unlettered society where one rarely comes across people genuinely into writing or reading and where books are sold not by content but by weight as a waste paper commodity and where book stores are disappearing fast getting converted into video shops or burger stands, the arrival of every single new book by a Pakistani author is freshening expression of a resolve not to give up the b ...

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Pakistan Army Chief of Staff Address

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan November 5, 2012: While speaking to a group of officers at GHQ, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said, “as a nation, we are passing through a defining phase. We are critically looking at the mistakes made in the past and trying to set the course for a better future. An intense discussion and debate is natural in this process. No individual or institution has the mon ...

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