Re: 75 tv channels to be operative by year-end: Durrani
Can you please ask your friend journalists that if ‘Musharraf government’ had not allowed this mushrooming of media, would they be still employed or without mushrooming of medias, would your friend Journalists have been unemployed suicide bombers, bombing innocents?
I hope that this does not happened to your ‘Journalist friends’ what use to happen to journalists like ‘Hamid Mir’ of Geo before President Musharraf came to power and brought tolerant culture:
Mir joined the Daily Jang](Daily Jang - Wikipedia) (Lahore) in 1987 and worked there as sub-editor, reporter, feature writer and edition in charge. In 1994, he broke the submarines purchase scandal in Daily Jang. Some close friends of Asif Zardari (husband of then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto) were involved in that scandal, along with some Navy officials. Mir lost his job the day his article was published.
In 1996, Mir became the editor of the Daily Pakistan Islamabad, making him the youngest editor of any national Urdu newspaper in the history of Pakistani journalism. He lost his job again in 1997, when he wrote an article in the Daily Pakistan about the alleged corruption of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Or well, I hope that this does not happened to your journalist friends what happened to Rahman Malik, published in Guardian:
[Note: what is mentioned in British Newspaper ‘Guardian’ is quite respectable and accurate. Guardian is not one of those corrupt and immoral Pakistani Media outlets where most Media owners, Journalists, Anchors, Program Presenters, Comparers are immoral corrupts, to whom anyone can throw bone to get them write or present whatever that person wants, regardless of that being true or not. IN UK, if anyone writes or presents (on TV or any media) something wrong, they go to jail].
Search for the millions Sharif 'stole' | World news | The Guardian
They tortured Rehman Malik by placing his hands and feet on ice for up to an hour at a time at a ‘safe house’ in Islamabad. Three years on, he still has trouble feeling sensations in his palms and soles from the punishment, meted out in black masks, by Nawaz Sharif’s heavies.
His neck, too, bears the painful crick from a year spent in solitary confinement in a tiny cell at Rawalpindi’s Adila jail with a brick wrapped in newspapers for a pillow. Malik, in mortal fear of convicted terrorists and official hatchet men, found his monthly half-hour visit from his seven-year-old son his single comfort.
Three times following his arrest in November 1996 the courts ordered Malik’s release. Each time he was re-arrested on trumped up charges until, after 12 months of humiliation, the Pakistani Supreme Court itself ruled his detention illegal.
Malik’s crime? To have been the deputy head of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Pakistan’s equivalent of the FBI, investigating allegations of massive corruption by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his family and cronies.