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.
South Asian Earthquake: Don’t care… or don’t know?
Beena Sarwar Nov 13, 2005 interacts: 63The few reports trickling in from the earthquake zone remain blips in the overall media radar.
Fox off!
Nadeem F Paracha Jun 12, 2007 interacts: 92What is sicker? State brutality or the brutality being turned into a sensational slide show by the channels to improve their ratings and attract viewrship?
The Directors’ Cut
Nadeem F Paracha Sep 26, 2003 interacts: 14the advent of all the ARYs, Geos, Indus Visions, IMs, Uni-Pluses and whatnot, has paved the way for a string of new directors/producers in Pakistani
The FM Boom
Beena Sarwar Sep 21, 2004 interacts: 6So what does this mean for Pakistan? After all, most FM stations just dish out ‘ear candy’ - easy listening, music hits, recipes, chit chat...
Media: The more things change...
Beena Sarwar Nov 30, 2007 interacts: 77
Where only one Najam Sethi was picked up under the Sharif regime, over the past eight years, dozens have been
Acidity - Novellete Part II
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 6, 2003 interacts: 20A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis
Bernard Lewis and the Neocon view of Islam
William Dalrymple Oct 7, 2007 interacts: 7Lewis has had such a profound influence that according to the Wall Street Journal, “the Lewis doctrine, in effect, had become US policy”.
Pakistani Twist to “Aliens in America” TV Series
Ras Siddiqui Sep 30, 2007 interacts: 58
Are the Pakistani and Muslim community here in America ready for raunchy American teenage humor?
Local Liberal Dribble
Nadeem F Paracha Jun 24, 2008 interacts: 89
I think it's time we start addressing irrationally-charged matters like religious fanaticism as a psychological issue rather than an intellectual
Uproar over a Cartoon?
Nauman Nisar May 15, 2005 interacts: 53Why so much uproar over an editorial cartoon? Why is it considered derogatory and why are the Pakistanis so offended?
Magic of metaphors : Op-Ed Journey of Thomas Friedman
Anand Patwardhan Oct 14, 2007 interacts: 53What is common between Detroit, Toyota, Jack Kevorkian, Mileage Standards and Assisted Suicide? Who would see such disparate elements as connected? Thomas Friedman!
The Holy Mind Blow
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 16, 2005 interacts: 27This new “liberal” lot. They have done more to give the mullahs the space to continue playing havoc with the country’s sociology and politics than
Is Decline of the Fourth-Estate Here and Happening?
Mahesh Prabhu Mar 7, 2008 interacts: 58Distinguished Editor and Author of our times M J Akbar is removed from the Chairmanship of 'The Asian Age' and 'Deccan Chronicle'.
Lady Reporter
Beena Sarwar Dec 26, 2004 interacts: 19There is no simple answer to the question that people (mostly foreigners) often ask: how does it feel ‘to be a woman journalist in Pakistan’?
Enduring Operation Freedom
Shahid Mahmood Dec 2, 2003 interacts: 43The work documented American knee-jerk reprisals since September 11th.
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