ISLAMABAD: Allegations against two senior journalists, The News Editor Investigation Ansar Abbasi and Geo TV Senior Anchor Kamran Khan, of being agents of CIA and Indian agency RAW by senior PPP leader Raja Riaz and other MPs have been widely denounced by all political parties and members of civil society including stalwarts of the PPP. The MQM said in a statement that to criticise was part of democracy. "Had the PPP alleged that a few journalists are running a negative campaign against the government, no Pakistani along with the MQM would have objected, but calling someone RAW and CIA agent is condemnable." "The PPP should avoid this sort of allegations otherwise confrontation might reach the point of no return," the statement said. PML-Q spokesman Kamil Ali Agha said it was below his level to comment on an allegation hurled by Raja Riaz of the PPP. "First Raja Riaz should himself clarify about his character and then hurl allegations on journalists who expose corruption," he added. Pervaiz Shaukat, president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, while condemning the allegations hurled by PPP leaders, said anybody could differ with the news published by a journalist, but calling someone an agent of RAW and CIA did not suit to any government. REFERENCE: PPP allegations against newsmen slammed by all By Usman Manzoor Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Zi Qad 11, 1431 A.H. http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-1428-PPP-allegations-against-newsmen-slammed-by-all
Hamid Mir and GEO TV had said that Pakistan has lost it Territory:)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX2OWWJtN4I
Capital Talk Sheikh Rasheed Fight With Hamid Mir
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-1PLqFy9QQ&feature=related
Capital Talk Hamid Mir Exposed by Sheikh Rasheed.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_TQR4is90&feature=related
In an unprecedented move, Punjab Assembly unanimously ratified a motion, placed before the House by PML-N member Sanaullah Masti Khel, against media on Friday, according to reports. Interestingly, no assembly member opposed the said motion. The assembly also condemned the programmes being aired casting aspersions on the MPAs. Earlier, some members of the assembly including the female members delivered fiery speeches in the House blaming generals- judges-journalists nexus conspiring against the democratic dispensation. On the other hand, the media persons, sitting in the gallery, immediately left Punjab Assembly and boycotted the proceedings. Later, the journalists held a peaceful demonstration outside the assembly. The journalists raised slogans against this gang up of the lawmakers against the media, set ablaze copies of resolution in protest and chanted slogans in front of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and members of Punjab assembly. REFERENCE: Why media is being targeted? http://www.thenews.com.pk/blog/blog_details.asp?id=713
GEO News report proves Ajmal Kasab is Pakistani
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQrI4WPTSUE&feature=related
Truth about Ajmal Kasab
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hoxa8c648E&feature=related
RAWALPINDI: In the Geo News programme 'Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Saath,' the host Kamran Khan has expressed surprise that after having failed to nab killers of thousands of people, the government had identified Indian agents in the country. And it was Senior Minister in the Punjab cabinet Raja Riaz who had made the disclosure. He claimed that it was a conspiracy against democracy and also against the party that had been confronting the establishment, he said. Kamran Khan, however, reminded that in Pakistan establishment means Army. And according to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani the government not only enjoyed best of relations with it but also had been moving ahead with it shoulder to shoulder. Gilani had made these claims while addressing the nation the other day and during those moments he was accompanied at the dais by important members of the PPP. Kamran Khan reminded that Raja Riaz, contrary to Gilani, claims from the floor of the Punjab Assembly that PPP had been confronting the establishment or the Army. Raja Riaz's views with regard to Army are well known. On December 24, 2009 he had told the media that PPP had never succumbed to dictators or the Generals. It's difficult to digest as whether PPP had become anti-state or the Jang Group and Geo, Kamran Khan said. He said the Jang Group and Geo had been pin pointing as to who had plundered the national wealth and where it had taken place? Where merit had been flouted and where poor people are being killed just because of the incompetent government. He said it was a well-thought and well-conceived plan and Jang and Geo had fallen victim to it. REFERENCE: After failing to nab killers, govt finds Indian agents: Kamran News Desk Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Zi Qad 11, 1431 A.H. http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-1426-After-failing-to-nab-killers-govt-finds-Indian-agents-Kamran
Credibility of Ansar Abbasi and Sources of Ansar Abbasi is being revealed by his own colleague i.e. Nazir Naji.
Jang Group Journalists declaring each other Agent - 1 (Capital Talk 5th Nov 2009)
URL: http://youtu.be/6-OxcQhbRNE
Jang Group Journalists declaring each other Agent - 2 (Capital Talk 5th Nov 2009)
URL: http://youtu.be/5mooEXfaT9w
Jang Group Journalists declaring each other Agent - 3 (Capital Talk 5th Nov 2009)
Jang Group Journalists declaring each other Agent - 3 (Capital Talk 5th Nov 2009)
Jang Group Journalists declaring each other Agent - 4 (Capital Talk 5th Nov 2009)
URL: http://youtu.be/jdsDXJ-dhuw
LAHORE: Following some heated arguments between the PML-N and the PPP MPAs over corruption scandals, the PPP parliamentary leader and Senior Minister Raja Riaz, speaking on a point of order, started criticising Daily Jang, Geo News and its senior reporters including Kamran Khan and Ansar Abbasi. The PPP minister claimed that Kamran Khan, the famous Geo TV anchorperson, presented 560 news stories solely on President Asif Zardari, mainly to target him. He alleged that Ansar Abbasi was also working on the same agenda, i.e. to weaken democracy in Pakistan. He termed both the senior journalists ‘Indian agents’. He said for the last two-and-a-half years, the PPP leadership was being targeted by the media and these journalists, though the coalition government wanted to strengthen democracy. At this point, no one from the house, especially from the PML-N, rose to defend the Jang Group, Geo News and senior journalists. Raja Riaz also claimed that the PPP leaders were ready to appear before the courts whether they are summoned in the morning, afternoon or in the evening. The entire PPP camp comprising Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, IT Minister Farooq Ghurki, Revenue Minister Haji Ishaq and all other members thumped desk in support of Raja Riaz’ remarks against Jang and Geo. REFERENCE: PPP rulers catch journalist agents of America, India! Updated at: 0931 PST, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 http://geo.tv/10-19-2010/73082.htm
PPP's Leadership About Indian Agent - 19 October 2010 - 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTQom6Sj3hY
GEO TV colloborates with the Voice of America, which is an official news arm of the government of the United States. Yet, GEO claims to be indpendent and objective.
As per a note blogger "Cafe Pyala"
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Guess who was spotted on November 9 in Washington D.C. at a reception for American and Pakistani media personnel thrown by US AfPak ambassador Richard Holbrooke's media assistant Ashley Bommer? Mir Ibrahim Rehman, scion of the house of Jang and CEO of the Geo TV Network. He walked in with The Friday Times editor and Dunya TV's Najam Sethi but stayed long after Sethi left the party.
Mir Ibrahim Rehman (c) at his master's convocation earlier this year
Mir Ibrahim (MIR) apparently jetted in for a mysterious three-day visit to the US, during which, our sources say, the main objective was to convince the US administration that Geo was neither anti-US nor anti-democracy, the line being peddled by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government. MIR also wished to gather official American support for the Jang Groupagainst the PPP boycott of the group as an instance of an assault on freedom of the media.
Our sources claim that MIR did not find too much traction among US officials against the idea of a media boycott, perhaps because the Obama administration itself has a similar boycott against Fox News (albeit without the shoe-throwing rent-a-demos and vile grafitti scrawlsagainst Fox News owners). However, what is particularly interesting about the Jang Group's attempts to woo the American establishment is the fact that there has been apparently a lot of discussion within the US government about whether it should support and even subsidize a media group that has no qualms about running shrill propaganda against the US, and sometimes even promoting a pro-Taliban line. In particular, Hamid Mir's contribution to whipping up Blackwater hysteria in Pakistan, Ansar Abbasi's rants about Western puppets, and the space given to nutjobs such as Zaid Hamid (Aag TV) and Ahmad Quraishi (Aag TV and The News) have apparently raised quite a few eyebrows in the US administration.
The Americans have reason to be upset with the Jang Group, and MIR has reasons to find their upset unsettling. The running of the banal American propaganda Voice of America (VoA) programme Khabron Se Aagay[Beyond the Headlines] as an 'advertorial' on Geo since 2005 has netted the Jang Group and its owners, by some accounts, millions of US taxpayer dollars. Although the exact 'compensation package' doled out to Geo by the US government is still secret, it should be noted that the deal between Geo and VoA was mediated during the Bush-Musharraf era by the then Information Secretary Anwar Mahmood and advertising whiz-kid Asif Salahuddin, the latter of whom is reputed not to touch 'small' deals. Apparently, part of MIR's discussions with the US administration included those on the future of the Geo-VoA deal.
Incidentally, while Najam Sethi was ostensibly in the US for medical check-ups and may have been present at the Bommer reception only coincidentally, as we have reported in the past, he too has been trying to persuade American-backed NGOs to fund a new 'liberal' channel to be headed by him.
Coming back to MIR, it seems that more than American upset, a potential threat of withdrawal of lucrative financial support may be the trigger for a panic at the Jang Group. As they say, bullshit may walk but it's money that talks. I have a strong feeling that you may well see the (media) house line shifting very soon. If you suddenly begin to miss the casual anti-US vitriol in the group's publications and on Geo, you'll know why. REFERENCE: Money Talks TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010 http://cafepyala.blogspot.com/2010/11/money-talks.html
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Mughal
ReplyDeleteIt looks you are also being paid by some media group to write against Jan groups.
They are the old champs of journalism in Pakistan.They got boosters injection during zia regime when they had god relations with Nawaz and his CO.They got lot of opportunities via Nawaz led govts that turned them giants of Pakistan.There are many journalist who left Geo and picked another channel never raised any objection against its credibility on national interests.Yes they are typical businessmen and I am sure business men can even never recognized their parents if something like that would affect their business profit and that is what they do in their ventures .
Prove your allegation and also try to explore the whole blog because if am being paid by someone to write against the Jang Group then who is paying me to write against Dawn, ARY ONE and Express News.
ReplyDeleteThat is my point that who is paying you to write against them on the basis of changing scenario of Pakistan political structure.If this media groups are working on anti state basis , they cant change the mental approach of illiterate class.
ReplyDeleteWhy you not write against media group of Salman taseer, mian amir or PTV which is completely showing opposite picture of what govt is doing actually.
You are ex IB and ex PPP worker,you have lot of material available to highlight their high profile mismanagement and corruption.Even now Agosta submarines corruption deals are ready to show the true picture of Bhutto and Navy joint venture of high profile corruption.I am sure you would have worked on that scandal as all officers and PPP officals were karachi residents at that moment.
In your last topics you have completely focused on Jang groups and that is just creating monotonous effect as you are being paid by some group.
In our chaos like situation every body is tumbling or having somersaults of ideas and presentation and it is same situation with media group but you pick those who are popular in projecting problems of common people and that is why these are popular.So your observation doesn't look very effective
Again, you have raised a false allegation [that too without any proof] that I am being paid by a media group to write against Jang Group of Newspapers and I would request you again and again to go through my blog and click the Labels of Daily Dawn, Hameed Haroon, ARYONE, Express News, etc.etc. and your wild allegations will vanish in thin air. Yes, I am proud to be an Ex. IB Official and you are not telling an State Secret because it is boldly written on this blog and on my facebook profile with complete details.
ReplyDeleteKindly provide any evidence which compelled you to write that I am an EX-PPP Worker and do click the Label "Tikka Khan" before declaring me a PPP Jiyala.
If you would closely read what I have written then you may note that I have only used the published material not State Secret or Classified Government Documents.
By the way I am least bothered whether you or anybody else [even PPP Wallahs] don't like my posts.
Lest I forget, I have many posts on US Central Intelligence therefore kindly tell as to who is payingme to write against CIA or US Military Industrial Complex.
Ms Nazia & Mr. Amir,
ReplyDeleteI am a new visitor on this blog through a websearch couple of hours ago. I have read your conversation and have a bird eye view of blogs by Mr. Amir. I would say the work done by Amir sb should be appreciated by an unbiased reader.
He is posting only published material which can be challenged if someone has solid proof. Merely saying that he is being paid by someone without any proof is useless. On the other hand we are observing that one of the reason of today's uncertain economic & political situation is irresponsible media of Pakistan.And they are misusing their liberty and gaining power for their interests.
Mr. Amir,
Keep it up this great job as a whistleblower.
Ms Nazia & Mr. Amir,
ReplyDeleteI am a new visitor on this blog through a websearch couple of hours ago. I have read your conversation and have a bird eye view of blogs by Mr. Amir. I would say the work done by Amir sb should be appreciated by an unbiased reader.
He is posting only published material which can be challenged if someone has solid proof. Merely saying that he is being paid by someone without any proof is useless. On the other hand we are observing that one of the reason of today's uncertain economic & political situation is irresponsible media of Pakistan.And they are misusing their liberty and gaining power for their interests.
Mr. Amir,
Keep it up this great job as a whistleblower.
Mughal
ReplyDeleteI am not ex employee of an investigating and reporting agency who give you proof of words.
If I am not wrong enough in any last discussion you have many times declared that you are real jiyala of PPP.
He might be your dummy but I am sure you declare it many times in some comments.
You pick the news of your choice and then deduct what you want to assume in your theory.If you have some conclusive observations as per your experience or personal observation then it worth otherwise your objections like that that journalist are lying ,is quite weak argument through your pick of some news.
I would give you an example that majority public followed the trend.
In bhutto regime Chinese leadership had inspired the world so people followed and praised that way of governance.Even China transformed its image as giant of world through communism but same theme was failed in muslim country.So the journalist who at that moments praised mao tung ideology was not lying but present you a picture or personal observation through present conclusions.
So your repetitive word of" lies" for highly professional people might be wrong only give impression of your negative attitude.nothing more than it.
What kind of proof I can give you if ansar abbassi or Talat take Uturn in their work.They are working under some organization as people work under private groups.
Just go back to past and remember that Clinton when once stayed for few hours in Islamabad never allowed Musharraf as dictator to come and shake hand with him.That was reason Tarar was sent to welcome him but in few month after 911, it was US president who ws sending invitation of white house to our military dictator.
Working person cant work in rigid and dead end ways.They have to change or find ways to go ahead and get stronger positions in working setup.
Prove that any of such journalist get foreign passport or heavy bribes for creating anarchy in state matters through their work.
Mr or ms pagee.
ReplyDeleteIf you are praising mughal 's job then you have no flying bird's view on his pick and drop articles.You have surely caliber of landed bird in search of food of thought and dip deeply to generate praise like that.Nobody is misusing its power as all private groups are working in very difficult situation in this worst law and order situation.Get the data after police men, journalists are on top of hit list of killers and mafias who are creating terror of taliban culture around us for many years.
Mughal is not whistle blower but trying to behave like loud speaker of our mullah's mosque.I mean focusing his efforts on wrong side of system.
Read his words"
By the way I am least bothered whether you or anybody else [even PPP Wallahs] don't like my posts".
just showing his rigidity to approve his work under his self made criteria.