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Posts Tagged ‘Geo’

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 […]



Geo TV Reporter Approaches a 13-Year for Sex?

By Saleem Khan • Jul 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics

A Pakistani American Journalist Mr. Syed Haider K. Zaidi (pen name: Nayyar Zaidi), Washington correspondent or Washington Bureau Chief of Pakistan’s Geo News TV, The News International (English newspaper) and Daily Jang (Urdu newspaper) was arrested by the US FBI and the Police on March 20/ 2008 in Ohio, USA, on sex crimes charges.
He is […]



There is a limit to every resistance

By Capt(R)Dr Razahaider • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

If I perceive and analyze the above criteria of resistance and force, in the conventional and traditional controversy of government functionaries and our so called resistor as retaliator, whether it may be any dick and harry, limitation of resistance will always be observed.



Dr Shahid Masood Sold Himself as Chairman PTV

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Though there is nothing inherently bad in accepting the government job or specifically becoming the chairman of state-owned Pakistan Television, but when you see the whole scheme of things, the appointment of Dr. Shahid Masood, the anchorperson of renowned GEO News TV talk show “Meray Mutabiq” as the new chairman of the Pakistan Television reeks, […]



Brunch with Bushra

By Dawar Naqvi • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
This is what my close friend told me after watching TV program broadcasted by GEO TV “Brunch with Bushra”
in which MQM Chief Altaf Hussain was the guest.
 
My friend lives in USA for a long time.
He was almost hopeless for the future […]



Rashid Qureshi, Where is Merit in the Army Then?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Lt Gen (R) Jamshaid Gulzar Kiyani on the Geo TV programme ‘Meray Mutabiq’ has done some stunning revelation about the Pervez Musharraf, the retired general who became President of Pakistan in full uniform through a pack of lotas and turncoats, and wants to stick to the throne no matter how much mud is slung on […]



Empire strikes-back on the media!

By ALE-Xpressed • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

All the channels and newspapers in the country have received a notice from the authorities saying they should not show the snapshot or news of any deposed judge before prior permission. Any talk shows or discussions on the Judicial crisis or the deposed judges have been banned.
The empire strikes back again on media attacking with […]



Breaking News Mania on T.V Channels

By Amna Gilani • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Importance of free media cannot be denied and it cannot be questioned in raising awareness among the masses. Pakistan has seen, in recent years, an explosion in the private media channels and the way they have break the shackles of state-owned PTV is marvelous and commendable.
Where these channels have succeeded in enkindling cognizance in the […]



Racism rules in Pakistan

By Tazeen • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I quoted Cowasjee in one of my previous posts where he said that unless a leader who has iman and insaniyat springs up from somewhere, we will remain a failing state.
I came across another gem since then, Peshawar High Court Bar Association’s President Latif Afridi was caught on Geo saying that “If it is demanded […]



Media Owes It’s Freedom to Musharraf

By Gul Raiz • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Whatever you say about President General (r) Pervez Musharraf, but you cannot refute the fact that the media gained an unprecedented freedom in his era. He was abused face to face by the belligerent anchors and journalists and he never tried to ban them.
Yes he did ban the channels and the anchorpersons, but only after […]