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Pandora Box of Television in Pakistan

Shahnawaz Farooqui   Feb 21, 2007   interacts: 246

How can dozens of TV channels run profitably in a country, where the total volume of the advertising industry is not more that six to

Western Media’s War on Pakistan

Moeed Pirzada   Apr 22, 2004   interacts: 185

The single most important contribution at this stage would be to develop a blueprint for a 'School of Modern Media Sciences', in other words an

My SAARC Diary

Farzana Versey   Jan 6, 2004   interacts: 178

The Indian journalists in Pakistan have been behaving as though they are in a mela with candy floss in their hands. Everything looks pink and

A Sign of Things To Come?

Omar R Quraishi   Apr 28, 2004   interacts: 143

What is extraordinary is that this programme was shown on PTV. A few years ago something like this would have been unimaginable.

Teasing or Torture?

Bina Shah   Nov 6, 2002   interacts: 82

both men and women are equal losers when it comes to sexual harassment in our country

A Comparison of Fashion

Omar R Quraishi   Nov 2, 2002   interacts: 82

I thought this would be a great chance to go see and judge where our fashion industry stood compared to India’s

Dodging Pakistani Sleuths to Cover a War and a Coup

Jawed Naqvi   Aug 25, 2007   interacts: 202

Are there Indian journalist who could come anywhere near the blunt posers that are hurled by Pakistani journalists to people in authority?

Acidity - Novellete Part I

Nadeem F Paracha   Sep 29, 2003   interacts: 19

A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis

Acidity - Novellete Part III (final)

Nadeem F Paracha   Oct 31, 2003   interacts: 54

A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis

Pakistani Media to Face Wrath of the Government

Saeed Minhas   Jun 5, 2007   interacts: 164

Eleven new amendments have been introduced in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), which would help the Musharaff regime to control the electronic media

Last Rites: An Evening at a Pak/Indian Show-biz Award Ceremony

Nadeem F Paracha   Jul 24, 2004   interacts: 33

The ceremony begins. But no. First eighty-two TV commercials of the seventy-seven corporate companies that have sponsored and co-sponsored and co-co-sponsored and co-co-co-sponsored the ceremony.

I, Consumer

farheen zehra   Jan 5, 2007   interacts: 135

Whether it is marriage, job or just looking pretty-you need to be fair. A great value to promote in a country where the vast majority

How Free is ’free?’

Beena Sarwar   Jul 18, 2005   interacts: 63

The Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's August 11, 1947 speech to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, in which he talked about freedom of religion, is no

A Whiter Shade of Green

Nadeem F Paracha   Aug 8, 2005   interacts: 72

If I have never written a single word against Musharaf then I have neither written a single word for Musharaf either. Until now. Right now.

Thus Fare Fake Democracies

Shafqat Mahmood   May 11, 2005   interacts: 92

This government has gone completely bananas. On World Press Freedom Day, it chose to thrash journalists in Islamabad and Lahore.

Media under siege in Pakistan

Mazhar Mazhar   May 13, 2007   interacts: 131

At least 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in clashes when suspended chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry arrived

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