Exposing Black Sheep in Pakistani Media

Source: pkpolitics.com

Author: Dr. Akram Khan

Similar to a few black sheep in Lawyers Community in Pakistan like Shareefuddin Pirzada, Malik Qayyum and Naeem Bukhari, there are a few media entities that play the same part as these notorious characters.

Daily Times Newspaper and Business Plus TV Channel:

Salman Taseer, the owner of this media group is close friend of President (i) Mushrarraf and also serving as a Minister in interim government. His TV Channel was the first one that got back on air immediately after the Emergency+ of 3rd November 2007, while other channels were facing crackdowns by Musharraf regime.

He was a well known leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and decided to side with Musharraf to serve mutual business and media interests.

Najam Sethi:

Najam is considered as a champion of yellow journalism in English print and electronic media. A pseudo intellectual who has always been used by the establishment for planting their stories in the media for the purpose of disinformation, twisting/distorting facts and diverting attention of people from real issues. Najam Sethi runs his weekly newspaper Friday Times and actively write in Daily Times.

The team that went to the United States to defend the illegal acts of Musharraf after emergency+ could not find anything in Pakistani Media to support them except an article written by Najam Sethi against deposed Judges.

Nazir Naji:

Nazir Naji is considered to be the Urdu version of Najam Sethi. With under metric education and working as a columnist, he claims himself as a lobbyist and is well known for spreading negative journalism. He is also known as a LOTA in journalists community for frequently switching sides.

After the events of 12th May 2007 in Karachi, Nazir Naji was the only journalist who defended the actions of MQM in the Pakistani Media.

Saleem Shezad

Saleem is the bureau chief of Asia Times in Pakistan and the the only lucky reporter who receives emails from terrorist groups claiming responsibility of attacks. Click here for more on Saleem Shahzad …

It is extremely important that everyone knows about these black sheep so that we can counter their strategy to hamper the movement of lawyers and civil society for restoration of judiciary and for upholding the rule of law in Pakistan.

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More need to Resist and Protest against the newly imposed Martial Law, than ever

It was the blackest day of Pakistan's history, the act of imposing Martial Law (i would say it Martial Law rather emergency because it is imposed by the Chief of Army Staff not even by the President, if it were the emergency then it would had been imposed by the Prime Minister) is a ridiculous act of its kind. Because in the past all such kind of actions were taken against the 'civil governments' whereas in this setup, the Army Chief was also the President (since 8 years not from a short period of time), the Prime Minister was undoubtedly a puppet and he himself was the one and only Ruler. The text of Declaration of Emergency Rule which ends by saying that "the constitution is in 'abeyance' - which, in effect means that martial law has been imposed, although there is not a heavy security presence on the streets."

All those reasons that he spoke about, in his "Mere Aziz Hum-Watno", were in fact the points of charge-sheet of his failures during his Dictatorship since 8 years and mainly after becoming the "Front Line State" in the so called "War on Terror" after Nine Eleven. In short, the whole speech was nothing except "I", "Me" and "Myself". For Example
I thought blah blah blah
I decided blah blah blah
I want blah blah blah
I wont allow blah blah blah
I did blah blah blah
I will do blah blah blah
My Rule, My Command, My Authority blah blah blah
Still he insists that it was a Democratic Government ? I ask where was the "Government" ? It had been a one man show since the 12 October 1999. This blatant attack on civil right was part of the statement that "I will remain". In his address he said "Inaction at this moment is suicide for Pakistan and I cannot allow this country to commit suicide." Who the hell are you ? You don't have the legitimacy to allow or disallow anything, no one elected you to do that. Especially when you plan to cease the basic civil rights, suspend the constitution and arrest the judiciary by deciding on your own (or by just consulting the "chorr" commanders).

Humorously he thinks that he is part of the solution, infact he is part of the problem. "I suspect that Pakistan's sovereignty is in danger unless timely action is taken," he said (in his address). Thats exactly what we believe (not only suspect) that Pakistan's sovereignty is in danger if Military remained in rule and Mush didn't stepped out. BBC quoted "He insisted his decisions were made for the benefit of Pakistan".

The main target is the judiciary which is accused of interfering in government policy and weakening the struggle against terrorism, what a pathetic joke is this. He wants to install puppets in judiciary, also. Thats why he dismissed Chief Justice. More than 15 Judges from Supreme court and more than 60 Judges from all the four High courts refused to take oath under PCO. In Sindh, almost all the members of that bench which was hearing the 12 May Case and also the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court, were not even invited to take oath !!!

So please please stand up to resist and protest against this shameful act of a self centered man. The future of our generations is at stake. Don't think that its only the job of political parties or the legal community, we are also part of it. Enough is enough, we had been silent since long and gave Mush a reason to say that the silent majority support his policies and decisions. So please don't become part of his crimes anymore. Do what ever you can to remove this system which has been embarrassing us all the time.

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