By Iram Salim
(Pakdestiny.com) The ‘sad’ part of banning Dr Shahid Mmasood by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) episode is the ARY News and its anchors like Arshad Sharif are chiding Pemra days and nights for banning ‘stalwart anchor’ despite the fact he remained completely controversial throughout his career.
Dr Shahid Masood commonly known “Dr Death” after he did controversial programs on ‘End of the World’. Later he joined PTV as its managing director. Once he was removed from the post and he reportedly received six-month salary and other perks in advance. Later he showed his ‘professionalism’ and launched scathing rather filthy criticism on Zardari and company for booting him out of PTV. Geo was his favourite destination that time because it used to target Zardari on daily basis.
Later he was shown the door from the Geo News and after finding refuge in one private news channel and another he finally was pardoned by Salman Iqbal, CEO ARY, for ditching the channel. He was taken on board recently by the ARY.
Now it is shameful to see Arshad Sharif like anchors to take on Absar Alam, who no doubt is the PML-N journalist, for his love for ‘Dr Death’ sorry… Shahid Masood.
The ARY should better wait for the court decision on its petition challenging Pemra ban instead of blindly and foolishly making pathetic Masood a champion journalist and urging journalist bodies to take sides with him.
LAST Week PEMRA said “Dr Shahid Masood alleged — in a programme aired on June 22 — that the son of the Sindh High Court chief justice was kidnapped because the chief justice took a bribe and then did not make good on his promises.”
According to Pemra, a show-cause notice was issued on July 19 and the channel was given seven days to respond, but the reply received on July 23 was “unprofessional” and no apology was tendered.
The statement issued by the electronic media watchdog said the case was referred to its Council of Complaints in Karachi and the channel’s representatives were asked to appear before it on August 4.
“On the date of the hearing, the channel sought an adjournment and council granted adjournment for another seven days,” the statement said, adding “but the representative of the channel neither tendered any apology for the serious allegation nor presented a satisfactory reply.”
Under the law, Dr Shahid Masood and his channel reserve the right to appeal the authority’s decision before the high court or the Supreme Court within five days.
ARY News has also posted a statement from its counsel, Advocate Moinuddin, on its website. In it, the counsel notes that Pemra’s decision was apparently taken in haste and “may have some mala fide intent”.
Mr Moinuddin also contended that Pemra did not consider their adjournment plea. “We could have gone to Islamabad to plead our case, but that chance was not provided to us.”
The advocate also expressed surprise that the Pemra order was not signed by any authority, but rather was simply endorsed by the council of complaints.
In a statement posted on their website, Dr Shahid Masood has asked: “What [could] anyone do if the government [had] misconstrued his statement in the programme”, adding that the government must clearly say what was objectionable in the programme, which stirred up a “hornet’s nest”. – Pak Destiny
Tamam media ko ekk hona paray ga ajj Dr shahid masood ki zaban band hoe ha.kal in ki jaga ap b ho skty hyn..plz Dr shahid masood ka sath dy kyun k WO such boltay hyn.Tamam media ekk ho
45 din ka ban is par hemesha k lye ban hona chahye black mailer
Yes qayamat postpone…. Warna dr. Shahab ko sunn ky lagtaa bs qayamat is about to happen
Dr.Shahid Masood dear Sir we love u Bcz u r a True Muslim
They are paid by goon PML.n.So they’ve no minds of their own.SHAMEFUL behaviour.
PEMRA is acting as it is a gangster … everyone has the right to speak , they r insane …. they r acting as Firoon that whoever opposes them shall be slaughtered , this isnt fair
Dr. Shahid Masood is a senior journilist.He always speak turth
He is not lefafa sahafi.like Hamid mir Javed chudhry saleem bukhari nusrat javed Najam sethi Garadia farooqi and Absar Alam.Shame on pemra and nalike leage.
ڈاکٹر شاہد مسعود پر 45 دن کی میڈیا بندش ہماری بلڈ پریشر اور ڈپریشن کی ادویات کی فروخت کم کرنے کی سازش ہے۔ ادویہ ساز کمپنیاں
باالکل جھوٹا ہے بغیر تصدیق کے *** ہے کہتا تھا پینتیس پنکچر کی کیسٹ خود سنی ہے جبکہ اسکا وجود ہی نہیں تھا جب عارف نظامی نے ریحام خان اور عمران خان کی شادی کی خبر بریک کی تو ان پر چڑھ ڈوڑا کہتا تھا میں ناشتہ عمران کے ساتھ کرتا ہوں دو دن بعد سب نے شادی کی تقریب ٹی وی پر دیکھ لی اس سے اتنا نہ ہوا کہ عارف نظامی سے معافی مانگ لیتا
اس کا مطلب ہے، شاہد مسعود پی ٹی آئی کا ترجمان ہے
Aamir liaquat ka program to 3 din k lya ban na Kar sakay Dr.sahab k program ko ban kardya well-done pemra
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This story is very biased. You should have confined yourself to facts. Comments within a story shows your bias, damaging your credibility.