By Sarmad Ali
Islamabad July 9 (http://www.pakdestiny.com) While property tycoon Riaz Malik has exposed a good number of anchors and journalists for receiving favours worth millions of rupees from him, some of them and others are also on pay roll of the political parties and the establishment to further their agenda.
According to sources, a PML-N senator distributes Rs2 million monthly among the selective beat reporters of the PML-N and journalists on desk in Islamabad and Lahore. Similarly, an adviser to President Zardari also distributes Rs2.5 million among the selective PPP beat reporters in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore.
Besides, the PML-N has also given a flat each in Sharja to anchors Javed Chaudhry, Hamid Mir and Kamran Khan and journalist Pervaiz Bashir. You will notice these four journalists never do an ‘anti-PMLN’ program, and the reason is quite understandable.
Mubashir Lucman is most successful anchor in terms of receiving favours and monthly from almost all mainstream parties except the PML-N of whom he is a sworn enemy. He is also a favourite anchor of the establishment ready to further its agenda for ‘handsome bucks’.
Aftab Iqbal has received a precious piece of land on Badian Road from a wealthy political party of Lahore. He is constructing a farm house there.
Muhammad Malick is a known sympathizer of the PML-N for his past favours.
The question is whether these journalists are corrupt or the politicians and establishment that bribe them. (http://www.pakdestiny.com)
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The good thing is independent judiciary. The second good thing is independent Media. Forums are available for exposing and punishing the corrupt. The challenge is the ownership of Pakistan – that an ordinary citizen has to stand and take.
totally agreed!
Ownership of Pakistan is a real question among all Pakistani who has / had power of making any kind of corruption.
No doubt every one taking or giving bribe is / was/ shall be corrupt.
But how we can move forward with these people. We never have any authority to punish everybody. So what would be the way forward ?
We need some thing special, out of the box thinking !
Can the whole nation forgive every one and start new Pakistan with a spirit that no one shall do such activities next time ?
If anyone would find to do such activities again then an offensive action should be taken like sentence of death minimum !
This is relatively minor compared to what Express and Geo are doing, that is becoming puppets in the hands of the Americans.
First Express News. What started off as “hooking” Geo on American funding through VOA telecasts has now shifted to Express News. Once Express News becomes hooked the Americans are likely to take it to the next stage as they did to Geo (discussed below).
Since the last two months or so I have been seeing these small segments on Geo, titled ‘Zara Sochiay’ (Just Think). This segment normally exalts modern education as the panacea for all ills of Pakistani society. I had a hunch that this was financed by the Americans since this is what they are trying to push in Pakistan. Also Geo when it does such public interest programming, is likely to put the “Jeem” (for Geo) cartoon character in such programs. Jeem is missing in Zara Sochiay which led me to think that it was program paid for by the Americans. No problems so far.
However something alarming happened a few days ago. In the fresh Zara Sochiay program now the popular couplet “Pakistan kaa matlab kiyaa – La Illaha Illallah” has been modified to “Pakistan kaa matlab kiyaa – Taleem bus aur kiyaa”. This is a serious development and a clear attempt to erase the Islamic Identity link between Pakistaniyat and Islam.
The above is an alarming trend which needs to be checked and very loudly decried at all for a including PEMRA. Hopefully by highlighting it on PAKDESTINY, the general public should become aware of this attempt to erase the Islamic identity in our thinking. And finally it reflects poorly on Geo (and Express News) to become parties to the American designs for money.