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GEO Banned II

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Geo Television had started its broadcasts on 14th August 2002 on the occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day, continued to run smoothly but, along with other such Channels like ARY Oneworld and Aaj, had first time suffered with drastic shock in November 2007 when Gen Musharraf had promulgated notorious ‘emergency’ in the shape of sub-martial law [...]



Media Anchors Should Be Controlled by Government

By Altaf Khan • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

All the private media channels including GEO, ARYONEWORLD, Express, AAJ, DAWN and others have become mouth pieces of terrorists.
Just switch on any TV. You hear:

A Blast has been heard in Peshawar.
Then for five minutes it flashes.
Then live coverage starts from the blast spot.
They broadcast dead bodies, crying people, blood, and injured people.
They telecast live collapsing [...]



Kashif Abassi : Where are You

By Sumaira Bajwa • Aug 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Along with Dr. Shahid Masood, Hamid Mir, Talat Hussain, and Javed Chaudhry, one of the most famous and sought after anchorperson in the Pakistani private media is Kashif Abbassi. A graduate of Barani Institute of Information Technology, UAAR, Rawalpindi, Kashif belongs to a wealthy and strong background, but his fame comes from his intrepid and [...]



Private TV Channels’ Corruption

By Gul Raiz • Jul 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Flip on any private T.V channel and you would get a load of self-righteous crap about honesty, truth, transparency and rule of law. Watch any news or talk show and you would see anchorpersons dressing down the politicians and other people. Making a mountain out of a molehill is what these channels are doing in [...]



Pakistani Media:Spreading Awareness or Vulgarity?

By Danyhasan • Feb 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Since the last few months there have been intense debates on whether the electronic media is becoming a monster or not. Certain people are propogating the opinion that the media is playing a destructive role for the society. They claim that in the days of dictatorship it calls for democracy and later tries to [...]



Media Intellectuals

By The Pakistani Spectator • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Many Pakistani intellectuals often write in news paper in much interesting way or speak in talk show on TV channels with much eloquence on many topic ,some of which can be , though, termed as of- repeated one However the views of most of them about these topics hardly [...]



Media is Encouraging Terrorism and Violence

By Rohail Butt • Nov 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A small blast occurred at the Imam Bargah in Peshawar and 4 people were injured slightly and there was petty property loss. When I switched on the television, all the electronic private channels including GEO, ARYONEWORLD, AAJ, HUM, Waqt, Express, Samaa and others were projecting that as all hell was broke loose in Peshawar and [...]



Profit From the Meltdown

By The Pakistani Spectator • Oct 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

As I sit writing these lines in New York, on this October day, fall weather is upon us. The view outside my window is a curious mixture of an early (native) “Indian Summer”, as well as autumn. Much of the shrubbery in my backyard nature preserve has already turned red, with some shades of green [...]



Increase in Robberies

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Due to the baseless rumors that the banks are going bankrupt and they are about to clamp down on the lockers of the people and will freeze the accounts for an unspecific period of time has created a panic and many a people have withdrawn their money and valuables from the banks and have put [...]



GEO NEWS CASTER - Sana Tariq IN DUBAI

By Amna Gilani • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Nowadays, some apparantly family pictures of Sana Tariq, a former newscaster and host of GEO television and now attached with ARYONEWORLD network are circulating through the emails. These pictures doesn’t contain any explicit nudity, rather they are just seems to be a family pictures, which seem to be stolen from the family of Sana. Even [...]