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Well boo f***in hoo for Mr. President getting all outta joint cuz he can't see himself being criticized. Media is there to do the critical questioning, not to be all lovey dovey about facts. PTV does a very good job of that as it is. The fact of the matter is GEO/ARY/AAJ were doing an excellent job of broadening peoples' minds about what really is going on in the country. Chaudhries and co. couldn't tolerate that because they still live in 90's where Govt. gave the news, and channels issued them and people got the version they were 'meant' to hear/see. And it's because of this intolerant behavior that they to some point put Musharraf on the path to collision with his own ideology. I don't blame the guy entirely, i mean look around him. He's surrounded by illiterates. However, him being the military man and all, he should've taken independant decisions and kept the vision he came into power with, of empowering people through media.
Just look at the recent events, no matter how rowdy citizens get, police is not suppose to shove, drag, and most notably smack people around in public. I know some of you are quick to jump the wire and say 'oh look at this country, this and that' well....tell me of a single developed nation where such abuse is seen on camera. Infact politicians/policemen are made to behave when the cameras are around. Not in Pakland.....As for media, you say US/UK media corps. have to sign FCC. Yea they do sign something but it does not dictate how they're suppose to run their business, and what they can/cannot say. But their anchorship, independant sources, style and format of shows is never jeoperdized because all that comes under corporation policy, not FCC. So don't give me that b.s. about US/UK don't criticize the president, infact they go much further and yet not a single station is ever disrupted of service, let alone DISMANTLED.
Newsflash folks!!! This ain't over yet. Musharraf is just digging himself deeper in, who is he going to turn to for justice or media coverage if, ever, he's taken out of office due to say 'another coup'? GEO/ARY won't be around to hawk the news. His party allies sure as hell aren't gonna come bail him, or 'vote' him to be the president again because he's 'OH SO PERFECT FOR THE JOB'. He has just basically chocked his own brainchild, it won't be long before he loses external support as well. Just mark my word.

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Suhaib Honey, your original contention was:
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TV channels sign some government document inorder to air in USA.... to quote you:

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Any decent person with even matric level education in Pakistan would laugh his behind off at that!

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well like i said this is not to do with mush, its about geo.
and dnt tell me they were not biased, just read my post above on them.

btw. you have said mush has destoryed institutions, please enlighten me on which ones existed before mush came to power.
i guess people are angry with the emergancy but you need to think with an open mind, it was neccasery to get rid of the thief justice, and the sitaution will probably get better in the next few months when elections are done.
please open a new thread to discus this.

War on Free Media by dark forces of Mush Dictatorship and "enlightened moderation"

These are the same dark authoritarian forces of the musharraf military junta/dictatorship, that were advocating "enlightened moderation" and a " liberal free society". Yet these are the same dark forces that have acted like Hitler and Mussolini to destroy any free media that doesn't follow their authoritarian party line. They want to turn Geo into another PTV government progaganda outlet just like saddam hussain had Baghdad TV as his propaganda outlet.

These are the same authoritarian people who in 1971 divided pakistan's eastern wing because they wouldn't allow a Bengali to become a prime minister even though Bangali party won the 1970 election.

I hope GEO and ARY move their station to London so there won't be any pressure from musharraf dictatorship to shut GEO.

DOWN WITH MUSHARRAF DICTATORSHIP !!!


Dubai agrees to pull plug on Pakistani TV networks

LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) – Two Pakistani television networks that transmit from Dubai in United Arab Emirates were ordered off the air Friday at the request of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, officials from the networks said.
GEO-TV and ARY Digital offer a variety of programming, including news, entertainment, sports and music.

Both networks had been banned from Pakistan\'s cable television system – along with other networks, including CNN and BBC – since Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3.

This latest action prevents the two Pakistani networks from broadcasting worldwide via satellite.

\"This was basically our window to the world, GEO President Imran Aslan said. \"In Pakistan, we\'ve been shut down since the 3rd.\"

The action was not wholly unexpected, but surprising nevertheless, Aslan said.

\"We uplink from Dubai, never having had a license to uplink from Pakistan,\" he said. \"Dubai is a media city which seemed to be a haven and a sanctuary.\"

Aslan said network officials have been in discussions with Pakistani government officials and \"it seemed very obvious that they were going to do this. We were ready for it to a certain extent.\"

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your post hardly makes any sense.

i said the channels have to sign a CoC in usa, please show me how its proven nonsense????????????

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The CJ suspended the chief commisioner of the police and not sacked him. The law states that officials must act within the law. It is a criminal offence for police officials to use beyond reasonable force against the general public.

If the CJ abused his position then Mushy should present the evidence before a court of law.

The CJ is entitled to promote Judges as the COAS is entitled to promote Generals. Although even on this issue he needs to get the rubber stamp of the President in order to do that.

Let me again repeat the people are not terrorist just because an agency says that someone is. They need to have evidence and then need to present it to the Court. If they have no evidence then the cannot simply label people as terrorists.

There is no ban on construction activity. However if laws of been broken by land grabbers then the Court can take action against them and ask them to stop the construction pending the settlement of the case.

Why would "Mushy haters" want to defend the ban on Geo?

I really have no time for ignorant fools like you. Pakistan is in trouble if it produces people like you.

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No honey, you keep repeating like a parrot...TV channels in the US **DO NOT **sign any governmnet CoC, or XyZ....it would be considered a breach of their basic fundamental rights.

Now thats how civil societies function, alien to you certainly having grown up in Gujjar Khan!

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here's the thing. Geo disappeared today and I turn on PTV and there is ajeeb-o-ghreeb type anchor person Mujhaaed Khan lol and the news headlines that he's reading. all of a sudden in swat today 100 "shidat pasand" died. short clips of mush and somoro are shown, laughing, everything is shown kosher in the country followed by the early 90's music video of Ali Haider's Zalim Nazroon Se. very nice.

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I will keep it short. When Mushy came people supported him and welcomed him. He has done some good but instead of continuing to move forward he is starting to move backwards. People believed him when he said Pakistan first, but now people now its all hanging onto power by any mean and nothing to do with Pakistan. There are thousands of people out there that could do a better job than Mushy. He is not indispensable. His role should have been to create a system so that Pakistan could break away from the recurring cycle of dictatorships, be it military or civilian and he has failed. He is even going back on the few good things that he did do.

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Dont forget this freedom your talking about was infact given to these people by the so called dictator.

Whats so hard to understand.....
Free media doesn mean that you spread lies and turn your own nation against your gov ...just for the sake of ratings....
The example of Geo is just like " ASTEEN KA SANMP".
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This should be a lesson for other networks .

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oh yeah, big lesson. this one was closed down next one to spread lies about the dictator and his dictatorship will have their dictator style.

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yeah after the dictator is done handing out gov't posts to his sheeda talli type friends like free candy, the channels will come back on. no one to question his decisions and creat a big fuss. Dr. Evil type plan. Somebody get him a Dr. Evil costume.

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^^ Do what now???
Dude hosla rakho , take a deep breath and then talk...so that you can make some sense.

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[mod]stalker and suhaib, please discuss civilly without making it into a quarrel. all the relevant points you're making dont involve calling each other 2 year olds and whatnot.[/mod]

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You mean just like President suspended CJ on 9th March but media and supporters of CJ were calling that sacking, just to score points and abuse government? *

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The law states that officials must act within the law. It is a criminal offence for police officials to use beyond reasonable force against the general public.
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Yes, and it is also criminal offence for a Chief Justice (or any judge) to do nepotism, corruption, misuse of power, misconduct behaviour when performing duty, use facilities more than entitlement, etc ... and when government initiates reference in SJC, use brother judge to stop that reference. [Result of such activities is that in the end, instead of sending reference to SJC, government sacks such judges].

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If the CJ abused his position then Mushy should present the evidence before a court of law.
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Well, that is what he tried on 9th March, he send reference to Supreme Judicial council (where there are only judges) with evidences, but before SJC could get along with investigations, SC judges stopped SJC to investigate, without yet giving reasons.

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The CJ is entitled to promote Judges as the COAS is entitled to promote Generals. Although even on this issue he needs to get the rubber stamp of the President in order to do that.
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You are wrong. Only president is entitled to promote judges on recommendation of Prime Minister and consultation of CJ. CJ is not an appointing authority for judges neither authority in promotions. Actually, if Prime minister and President wants, they can even by-pass CJ recommendation.

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Let me again repeat the people are not terrorist just because an agency says that someone is. They need to have evidence and then need to present it to the Court. If they have no evidence then the cannot simply label people as terrorists.
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Again wrong. Terrorists do not have written on their forehead that they are terrorists. Actually word terrorist is misleading, as anyone fighting the state within state could be called terrorist while those fighting the state may consider that terrorist their hero.

Nevertheless, law enforcement agencies (or intelligence agencies) get their information from various sources, including word of mouth, intelligence report comming from outside the country, or even just sight. Hence, if by any chance a case related to terrorist goes to court, judges should accept the words of agencies and trust them (unless there is reason to believe that someone in agency is involved in personal dispute with person accused of terrorism).

If case regarding terrorists come to court where personal grudge of anyone in agency is not involved (that victim can prove in court), but whole agency as institution is involved in believing a person to be terrorist, than judges should accept that person as wanted terrorist. If judge have problem in accepting that, then they should resign and if not, such judges should get sacked.

[Actually words of state police and agencies even in western countries weigh a lot where justice is much better than third world countries. For instance, in UK if 2 policemen give verbal evidence against someone in court, that is taken as enough evidential proof by judges to convict a person guilty].

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There is no ban on construction activity. However if laws of been broken by land grabbers then the Court can take action against them and ask them to stop the construction pending the settlement of the case.
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Well, land grabbing itself is against the law and state, as administrator of all lands and land uses, do not have to go to court to reclaim grabbed lands. Records of ownership of all states are with state and not court. If someone grabbed land, then state has right to reclaim that without going to court. If anyone thinks that they are wronged than they have to go to court and prove that they are wronged by state in court.

If state would be required to go to court to reclaim grabbed lands than state would be just going to court all day and would be doing no work. Just imagine, state want to build footpath in an area where people have encroached the road, so to reclaim those encroachments to build footpath, government would need to go to court all day against house owners who encroached, before they can start building footpath. That would be ridiculous situation for any state.

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Why would "Mushy haters" want to defend the ban on Geo?
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I do not know who you mean 'Mushy haters', but as far as I am concerned, I would like to defend ban on GEO news services and political biased programs, because they were full of lies and were spreading misinformation, that is harmful for any country. Read my last post on this thread for some examples I gave.

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I really have no time for ignorant fools like you. Pakistan is in trouble if it produces people like you.
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Now that word ignorant is also debatable, as you might think I may be ignorant or for that matter, Suhaib is ignorant, but for us it could be other way round. As for country is in trouble, you are right, and we believe that all these corrupt politicians and gigolo from west trying to be Mullah is making all the troubles.*

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he suspended the chief commisioner of police and appointed his son in the position and you actully belived he was suspended and not sacked, this is not what the law says.
you have completly lost it.

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Than PTV is bias too why no one closes it down? And why it was necessary to get rid of CJ? Because he was expected to rule that MUSH is not eligible? Tum lougoun ko aisi baat kurtey zara sharam nahi atti?

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Go get you facts right first than talk

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The dictator has clearly lost all his marbles. Is he now going to stop people in Pakistan from accessing for instance BBC and CNN websites? There's no way he can stop all information

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Dekho Sir. I can even be convinced GEO is devil's advocate. Maan liya. Now give me an answer on:
Why would you on one hand /tolerate) support the propaganda of Musharraf and on the other hand go against the views and opinion of a TV Station, who is a newbie to two major words freedom and media?
NOw I'll give you the answer:
Coz you are blindly backing Musharraf on all his actions, no matter what their impact maybe. Musharraf lied the day he had his speech (on the very first day of emergency), Musharraf lied when he said he will have fast results on the KHI bombings on the very day BB arrived, Musharraf lied when he said he will not allow anarchy to take over his country, Musharraf lied when he said he is fighting a war on terror, Musharraf lies as soon as he opens his mouth.
Mr Masood lied, how many times?
Maybe, Its not even on how many lies have been told. It's about, who can (now) save our country from more disaster. Certainly not him any more, with his weakenend support from the West. I'll call for NEXT!