Pandora Box of Television in Pakistan
Shahnawaz Farooqui Feb 21, 2007 interacts: 246How 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: 185The 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: 178The 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: 143What 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: 82both 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: 82I 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: 202Are 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: 19A 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: 54A 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: 164Eleven 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: 33The 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: 135Whether 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: 63The 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: 72If 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: 92This 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


