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Posts Tagged ‘Geo’

Gilani Goes Zardari

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The short order and the detailed judgement of the Supreme Court has at least done one favor to the political horizon of Pakistan. It has told all of who care where the premier Yousuf Raza Gilani stands. Those who were speculating about rifts between President and the Prime Minister should know better now.
The columnists and [...]



Media Wars: Geo Zardari Party

By Dil Nawaz • Jan 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

President Zardari’s struggles against a ‘belligerent’ Geo News seems very strange,if seen in isolation. Supposedly Geo News is working for ‘freedom of expression’ previously against a dictator and now against a democratically elected president. Geo and its parent Jang group are well versed in judging the ‘trend of the time’.
Zardari is unpopular due his alleged [...]



Awaz-e-Dost, American Propaganda Through SMS

By Sharafat • Jan 14th, 2010 • Category: Technology

So get ready to receive some pro-American non-sense to be propagated through the text messages on your cell phone. The point man of Obama or the American viceroy to Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has met with the telecom operators according to a TV report and has struck a deal with the the telco gurus and has [...]



Close Down GEO and Everything Will be Fine

By Gul Raiz • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Honestly, if you don’t watch GEO Television, everything seems so routine and normal in the country and you don’t get bouts of frustration and agony and you don’t shudder that Pakistan will be no more in coming some weeks or the country won’t be engulfed in the civil war and we will be cutting each [...]



Kuch Maza Nahin Aya

By Irfan Waheed • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Nobody has been arressted,  nobody has been summoned to court, even the Exit Control List is nowhere to be seen and there is lots of confusion about this very issue and  infact the secretary of interior has been suspended along with some FIA officials as they barred the defense minister Ahmad Mukhtar from going to [...]



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 [...]



GEO Banned

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the last week of November 2009, the transmissions of GEO concerning ‘Merey Mutabiq’ of Dr Shahid Masood were banned allegedly on the pretext that propaganda against the presidency was being sent on air without due scrutiny, care and caution. The presidency team considered that the media had mislead the general public with disinformation on [...]



Has GEO failed to Overhaul the Government?

By zulfiqar • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Since the election of President Asif Ali Zardari as the president of Pakistan, some elements in media (95% of them from GEO and Jang group) has used every medium from paper to electronic to bash at the government. There one point agenda was not to topple the government but to replace President and some of [...]



Shoaib Bhutta Versus Jang and GEO

By Sharafat • Nov 26th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Arrest warrants have been issued against Shoaib Bhutta, the publisher of a local newspaper, over leveling allegations on Jang Group and Geo television network, Geo news reported on Thursday morning.
According to sources, Shoaid Bhutta accused Jang Group of being partial in supporting movement of judges’ restoration while, Jang Group sources had denied the allegations, terming [...]



Zardari Comes Hard at GEO and MQM

By Altaf Khan • Nov 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

President Asif Ali Zardari has at last broken his silence and has slammed hard at the media and the MQM, his ever-irking ally in the government. He has made public appearance after such a long time in Sindh, in the so-called powerbase of the Pakistan People’s Party.
He directly hit the GEO televison network and specifically [...]