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Posts Tagged ‘PTV’

Baffled Dr. Shahid Masood

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Dr. Shahid Masood is going through same strange terrains and learning to his great pains the real semantics of hefty salary and lush perks, quite soon after assuming the duties as the Managing Director of state-controlled Pakistan Television, which only state sees and believes.
After the faux pas of Prime Minister speech, some people were fired […]



Dr. Shahid Masood Finds a Whipping Boy

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

There is a very famous statement of Punjabi which roughly translates in English like this “Those who were actually doing it , ran and those who were just taking a bath, got in trouble.” That was what happened with Deputy Managing Director of Pakistan Television, Shahid Mehmood Nadeem.
Shahid Nadeem was sacked by the newly appointed […]



Here is Dr. Shahid Masood’s Price : Kon Tha Kahan Chala Gaya

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Every man has his price. My price is 1000 comment on this posts, and the price on which Dr. Shahid Masood sold his neutral and principled independent journalistic career is obnoxiously ugly and astonishing:
The letter of the Establishment Division bearing No 1/64/2008-E-6, dated June 30, 2008, says that:
Dr. Shahid Masood would get:

Would get Rs 700,000 […]



There is a limit to every resistance

By 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, […]



Fraudulent Mobile Calls

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Misc

This is to inform you all that Please beware of fraudulent calls. Certain group of people who give u impression that they are calling from Jazz (Mobilink) and there was a lucky draw being showed on PTV ( or some other channel) and he has won cash prize of Rs 5 lakh or Rs 10 […]



Geo TV Channel : Anarchy or Awareness?

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jan 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The old news is that Geo TV channel has resumed its “controlled” broadcasts along with other channels like ARYONEWORLD AND AAJ TV. When the channels were banned, and especially the GEO channel, people divided over the issue. Some supporting the ban wholeheartedly, and some rejecting it vehemently.
Some were vociferously in the support of the […]



PTV vs Private TV Channels

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 4th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

In my childhood we watch PTV because the only channel was available to watch. The only channel which tell about the budget speech, natioanl and international news, roits, figure of killings, progress of government etc etc.
Pir Sahib of Pigaro was the first person who installed dish anteena on his roof. It was a news […]