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At #10, Ainak Wala Jin – PTV, anyone growing in the 90’s in Pakistan was addicted to this program. Targeted towards children it was based on "Alif-Laila", something like the Harry Potter of Pakistan in the 90’s.

February 21, 2009
Blow Daddy

You seem to like wars, son. Yes. I like to watch them on TV. But real wars are fought outside the TV, son. Really? How is that possible? What sort of a war is that?

December 19, 2008
The Magician

In long flowing saris, sporting mangal-sootar and sindoor these angelic bahus are seen suffering, sacrificing, being victimized in short everything a sane and normal woman would never do.
Where only one Najam Sethi was picked up under the Sharif regime, over the past eight years, dozens have been picked up and tortured by Pakistan’s secret agencies.

October 14, 2007
Where's the news?

The so-called "movement against Musharraf" and the unfolding "democratic revolution" seems like a shrinking reality no bigger than a 26-inch TV screen.
Are the Pakistani and Muslim community here in America ready for raunchy American teenage humor?
The traditional media is mutating into something that normal users havent really picked up on yet, what’s going on?
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 seven billion rupees?
These shows are fired by sensationalism. Unless a complete 24 hour day can be shown, editing will ensure that the mundane will be subdued and the dramatic will be blown out of proportion. Contestants have complained that their personalities have appeared

November 19, 2005
Culture Cloning

The scariest picture the media presented of the cultural invasion of Pakistan five years back was a little child singing “Aati kya khandala” in the streets
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