Pakistan

Aftab Iqbal, the current host of the political-humour talk show Khabarnaak on GEO News, has come up with further controversial comments about Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) and Imran Khan. He said that he sees only two major political parties on the political stage of Pakistan in the next election and those two parties are Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz). According to him, PTI has no future amongst these political stalwarts anymore and that it has lost its charm and ...

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In the earlier days, when there was only one television channel, that too state-run, PTV, everything was according to what the government wanted to present as, whether the ruling government was that of a civilian elected democratically or of a dictator reigning through a military coup. PTV was the government’s mouth piece and a source of state propaganda and still continues to play that role. Till the electronic media remained dominant with the sole monopoly of PTV, everything in Pakistan was green, ...

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Marvi Memon is someone who earlier supported ex-President Pervez Musharraf because her father, Nisar Memon was the Information and Broadcasting Minister for the years 2002 and 2007. Musharraf said that at one point in time Marvi used to consider him as her godfather in politics and characterized her parting ways from his side as a “characterless act”. He could have said that she demonstrated lack of political acumen by shifting parties, but he straightly went after her character and said that she ...

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On February 25, Pakistan Peoples Party’s by-poll candidate, Waheeda Shah Bukhari was caught on a video-tape made by a by-stander in the act of slapping and assaulting two ladies workers of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) inside the polling station in Tando Mohammad Khan. One of the victims was the assistant officer Habiba Memon and the other was Shagufta Memon. She reportedly also slapped another by-stander who was an aged woman. To the entire nation, she has proven her worthlessness and ...

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Kim Barker was formerly the South Asian correspondent for the Chicago Tribune who resided in New Delhi and covered India, Pakistan and Afghanistan political affairs. She is also a writer and a speaker about issues she covers in her journalistic assignments. Currently she is the Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and does freelance work at various reputable publications. She can be contacted here.

After the Mumbai Attacks in 2008, she wanted to go to Faridkot. ...

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Kamran Shahid proved his lack of hosting skills on his show Front Line which airs through Express News and showed that he has no journalism ethics whatsoever when he allowed Barrister Saif Ali Khan (of All Pakistan Muslim League) and Talal Akbar Bugti (of Jamhoori Wattan Party) to go on bickering and did nothing to stop them. It seemed as though he did not care about the topic he had asked these people to comment ...

Updated 22-Feb-2012 at 06:16 PM by Sidrah Zaheer

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Recently, Aftab Iqbal has made a joke on Haroon ur Rasheed, who is a well-known Pakistani columnist and intellectual, in the usual get-up role played by Mir Mohammad Ali in Khabarnaak. What came as an irony is that his character was talking about the nation not bothering to read Naseem Hijazi’s books any more.

It then turned to the ...

Updated 21-Feb-2012 at 09:37 AM by Sidrah Zaheer

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