Tag: Media
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Different Flavors of Public Protest in India and Pakistan
Indians and Pakistanis are discussing the leadership crisis in their respective countries, but for different reasons and with different implications. India’s inability to wield influence on the world stage is being blamed on the lack of good leadership. In Pakistan, people feel that the political leaders have failed to instill confidence and provide direction when…
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Discussion with one of the UniLever’s Reality Show particpants, an eye witness to Saad Khan’s tragic death
This report was posted by Fahad Siddiqui the admin from the Facebook Group Say NO to Reality Shows As promised, we are now publishing a conversation with one of the contestants / eyewitness of the Clear Man show. For confidentiality purpose we can not disclose the names of the people who were involved in this…
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PakSatire rips on Unilever & Mindshare on Saad Khan’s Death
PakSatire takes a jab at UniLever and Mindshare to say
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Important questions regarding the death of Saad Khan during Unilever’s Clear Men reality show
Farrukh Ahmed, a fellow blogger and a close friend of Saad Khan has drafted a more detailed report on the the tragic death of Saad Khan during the recording of a Unilever Reality Show in Thailand – he asks some pertinent questions which need to be answered Unchained / Farrukh’s Blog: As a representative of…
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Rehman Malik [Dakait] had a head bounty Rs. 50 Lakh – Jang News fumbles another news item
It seems that the Jang Group [the leading Urdu news paper in Pakistan] is getting a little rustic around the edges of news reporting, a few days back it had inadvertently made Twitter as a Microsoft blog and more recently it has fumbled another hilarious blunder on the local front. The blunder comes when a…
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“Microsoft Blog called Twitter” DDoS’d – Jang
Today at 8:00pm Pakistan Time Twitter.com service went offline due to a massive DDoS attack on its servers. DDoS attacks are an attempt to make a website inaccessible by technically overloading the servers with millions of instantaneous requests from hundreds of computers scattered across the world. Twitter a very popular suffered this attack and was…
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PEMRA Blocks Dawn TV’s show We Are Soldiers
Late Friday night I received a couple of SMS’s alerting me that PEMRA had suddenly pulled and banned a much popular military show called ‘We Are Soldiers’ off-air. This news came a day before the episode on Special Services Group and Marines was to be aired on Saturday at 7:05 pm, but according to a…
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Nazir Naji caught Abusing Journalist
Ahmad Noorani, a senior editor of The News from Islamabad while investigating a story regarding illegal allotment of plots to some journalists by the federal government calls up Nazir Haji on Friday 17th April later Nazir Haji calls back Ahmed Noorani twice and gets a mouthful of profanity, in response I must applaud Ahmed Noorani…
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Press Conference at KPC against the Vandalism @ Arts Council [4:30pm] | Shanaakht
Press Conference at Karachi Press Club Vandalism @ ArtsCouncil Karachi Press Club, 4:30pm – TODAY (Mon 13 April 09) BE THERE ! You need to do ALL of the following: Come to the Press Conference at Karachi Press Club (KPC) at 4:30 pm, sit in the audience and watch the panel reading out the Statement…
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An evening on Media and Activism – Goethe Institute, Karachi | 7th April
AN EVENING ON MEDIA AND ACTIVISM DATE: 07 April 2009, TIME: 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm LOCATION: Goethe Institute, Karachi Do media and activism always go together. How does an activist media fill the gaps. How do the new technologies fit in this picture. What does this increased access to information mean for our complex…
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Presdient Zardari orders GEO shutdown: Letter by MIR
Geo News, Pakistan’s highest viewership TV channel, is not being seen by most of the country due to orders by President Zardari. Orders have been given to all cable operators to shut down GEO News transmission and or to place the channel towards the end of the cable frequency where most of the TV sets…
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PTA Blocks websites with Salman Taseer’s pictures ‘Harmful for the integrity of the Country’
Its being reported that PTA has recently blocked six specific URL’s in Pakistan deeming them “harmful for the integrity of the country“. These websites are blocked for carrying a certain set of pictures containing Salman Taseer, The Governor of Punjab & his family. The PTA is said to have complied upon the request from the…
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Kashif Abbasi – Impact of talk shows in creating Political Awarness in Pakistan
Kashif Abbasi, from ARY One World was invited to an interview with ABN Chicago to discuss the role of Political Talk shows in creating Political Awareness among the Pakistani masses. It is definitely worth listening at least to the first hour of the show [audio:ABNKashifAbbasi.mp3] Direct Download The discussion was to revolve around the following…
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10 lessons all Pakistanis must learn
Guest Post by Hassan Baig “Mulk khud hi chalta rehay ga” (approximate translation: the country doesn’t need our contribution to thrive) is a sentence many Pakistanis are prone to saying. I confess that till a few years ago, I myself was confident of this misleading notion. Misleading and dangerous – especially in today’s volatile climate.…
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Finally we are breathing
Guest Blog by Farrah K Raja When I came across” Teeth Maestro” I thought well how healthy my teeth are? The answer is always the same the one which Cinderella’s step mom used to get from the mirror. I do not believe in cosmetic surgery or going under knife so I do not spend much…