By Sajjad Shaukat                                   Undoubtedly, media is a powerful instrument to build perceptions and promote ideologies. Media houses like Geo and Jang Group, due to their area of influence, wealth and assets inland and abroad, have become a monster in Pakistan. By acting upon the anti-Pakistan propaganda for the sake of money, this media group follows its own peculiar agenda, and kee ...

By Sohail Parwaz Renowned Philosopher and thinker Confucius once said and I quote, “To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.” Usually a person invariably watches his next step soon after putting a wrong one and that’s the human psyche but again then there is no dearth of those who deliberately move the next step identical to the last one. The classic example is of GEO’s nonprofessional, ...

By Muhammad Daim Fazil The Congress rule of fifty out of sixty seven years since India’s independence is severely hammered by a hardliner and ethnic Hindu leader, Narendra Modi, in recently concluded general elections. According to latest reports, Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won 284 seats in Lok Sabha (parliament), surpassing 272 seats to establish government--- enabling itself to constitute g ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indira Gandhi after breaking Pakistan into two parts in 1971 chuckled that India had avenged 1000 years of humiliation and sunk two-nation theory in the Bay of Bengal. Mir Jafar’s treachery committed in 1757 was repeated by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1971. He was the Mir Jafar of 20th century. While Mir Jafar had connived with East India Company to hand over Bengal to Lord Clive, Mujib con ...

By Sohail Parwaz More or less a decade back, when one evening after the day’s hassle I was doing the habitual net surfing that I came across a website named, ‘The petition on line’. The title sounded interesting to me so I opened the site and found yet another page where I found a tall list of frustrations of people, mostly with pseudo names. The petition on that page was by a scoundrel named Jamal Uddin wh ...

By Sohail Parwaz During a lecture in Riyadh, the Saudi grand Mufti identified the reasons and declared that, “suicide bombings are great crimes and bombers are criminals who rush themselves to hell by their actions.” He described suicide bombers as “robbed of their minds… who have been used (as tools) to destroy themselves and societies.” Earlier, in his sermon to over two million Muslims on the occasion of ...

By Zaheerul Hassan GEO TV anchor Hamid Mir was attacked by some unknown motorcyclists once he was on his way from Jinnah International Airport on Shara-e-Faisal to Geo News Office. He was targeted by gunmen near the Natha Khan Bridge. Hamid Mir was shot three times and was rushed to a private hospital where he underwent an operation. All segments of life have condemned the attack but unfortunately GEO media ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Strategically vital, rich in natural resources, land of courageous and traditional inhabitants, “Balochistan” is an indispensable component of Pakistan. Baloch masses and leaders out rightly supported 1940 resolution, played pivotal and active role in creation of Pakistan. The resolution demanded that Muslim majority needs a separate homeland in Indian subcontinent. Therefore, like other ...