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Breaking News: Num starring Fawwad Khan will be aired from Geo. Hun dasso!!!
mei ne dramo ki baat nhi ki thi, Ramadan transmission :p
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Pakistan TV show gives away babies
If a needy child finds loving parents I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Pakistan’s Aamir Liaquat Hussain gives away babies
By Rob Crilly
Pakistan’s television wars have plumbed new depths in the battle for Ramadan ratings with the country’s most controversial presenter giving away abandoned babies on his prime-time show.
Aamir Liaquat Hussain has presented two babies to childless couples so far during Islam’s holy month.
His show’s heady mix of charity, piety and kitsch has made it a hit with viewers but also attracted accusations that he is using religion to generate headlines.
In an episode broadcast last week, Mr Hussain shocked the studio audience by promising the gift of a baby. “This is the beautiful girl who was thrown on a pile of garbage by somebody. See how beautiful and innocent she is,” he said, showing a baby girl to the camera.
He then introduced a shell-shocked couple who were handed the child by the head of a charity that rescues abandoned babies. The tearful wife described the child as a “gift of Ramadan” before her husband described their frustration at not being able to have children.
“These 14 years were full of hardships, people asked to go for second marriage but I remained patient and also asked my wife to be patient,” he said.
The spectacle was repeated for a second time this week.
The babies were presented by Muhammad Ramzan Chhipa, who runs the Chhipa Welfare Association.
“We have lots of babies that are just abandoned, left in the garbage or other dirty places,” he said. “Often we just find the bodies so our message that we make is to tell people to bring their babies to us, don’t just leave them.”
He declined to discuss how the couples were vetted but said they had previously approached his organisation to adopt children.
Pakistan’s raucous talk shows have huge followings. Controversy is never far away. One TV anchor was sacked after she patrolled Karachi parks, hunting down young couples on illicit rendezvous without chaperones. Another generated headlines by barging into suspected brothels. The battle for viewers is most intense during Ramadan. Last year Veena Malik - a model perhaps best known for posing nude in an Indian magazine - hosted a rival show, which featured an exorcism. Another programme showed the live conversion of a Hindu to Islam.
Mr Hussain’s Amaan Ramazan, broadcast by Geo, is by far the most popular - despite frequent accusations that the presenter uses the show to publicise extremist causes. In 2008 he was the host of a programme in which Muslim clerics denounced members of the minority Ahmadi sect, saying they deserved to die. For 12 hours a day during the month of Ramadan he prowls his studio, singing, praying or holding cookery demonstrations in a show described approvingly by some as an “Islamic version of The Price is Right”.
Prizes - ranging from tubs of cooking oil to plots of land, motorcycles and now babies - are showered on an audience drawn from Pakistan’s less fortunate.
Viewers call in to donate money around the clock.
Bina Shah, a writer based in Karachi where the programme is filmed, said the stunts came down to a simple calculation of ratings and advertising revenues in a hugely competitive market.
“It just speaks to the commercialisation of everything in Pakistani society including religion,” she said. “And giving away the baby stunt on television was the worst violation of media ethics I can think of.”
Producers of the show could not be reached for comment due to their marathon broadcasts.
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Wasn't GEO the same channel that made George ka Pakistan and other such creatively done shows? This is just cheap entertainment for people.
And if it's ratings that eggs them forward, then this is more of a sign of how despicable the population in Pakistan has become.
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What's wrong is that there is a procedure for adopting babies, couple have to be judged if they are suitable. Handing babies as gifts is pathetic.
Indeed he is Jaahil online.
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If a needy child finds loving parents I don't see anything wrong with that.
I will agree with you, but as Iconoclast pointed out, a procedure to adopt babies is already in place in the country. I hope that procedure would have been followed before officially handing over the babies to childless couples.
On a second thought, I understand everyone knows that babies could be adopted from official orphanages and from other NGOs working in the country. I wonder why childless couples would come to this show to adopt babies on air?
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He should've started this new tradition by adopting one baby himself.
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He should've started this new tradition by adopting one baby himself.
yar baby ka hi kuch khayal kar lo.
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ohh i forgot we can not afford another amir liaqat
gud call:k:
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What's wrong is that there is a procedure for adopting babies, couple have to be judged if they are suitable. Handing babies as gifts is pathetic.
Indeed he is Jaahil online.
I don't really agree with much of what he says or preaches, but here he is doing more than just giving away babies...he is highlighting a social problem, and encouraging people to adopt. Is it unethical? Maybe, but adopted baby is better than dead baby discarded in trash.
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Can't believe ppl stand up for him
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anybody have a video?I would like to know, if there was any difference in how he handed out the baby and how he hands out other stuff (cell phone, motorcycle,clothes etc)
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I don't really agree with much of what he says or preaches, but here he is doing more than just giving away babies...he is highlighting a social problem, and encouraging people to adopt. Is it unethical? Maybe, but adopted baby is better than dead baby discarded in trash.
He can highlight the social problem by inviting the people involved in taking care of the babies, social workers, people who have adopted to his show and spreading the word. He does not need to do this rang baazi of handing over babies like prizes.
How can you say that if those babies were not handed over to couples in his show they would have ended up dead.
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....How can you say that if those babies were not handed over to couples in his show they would have ended up dead.
Well, they might... if he holds them for a while longer.
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How can you say that if those babies were not handed over to couples in his show they would have ended up dead.
This is from the article posted above:
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The babies were presented by Muhammad Ramzan Chhipa, who runs the Chhipa Welfare Association.
"We have lots of babies that are just abandoned, left in the garbage or other dirty places," he said. "Often we just find the bodies so our message that we make is to tell people to bring their babies to us, don't just leave them."
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What's wrong is that there is a procedure for adopting babies, couple have to be judged if they are suitable. Handing babies as gifts is pathetic.
Indeed he is Jaahil online.
To play the devil's advocate......I think that the TV show was most certainly preceded by that procedure you are talking about, and that it was all predetermined....and that the scene created on the tv show was just for ratings.
Chippa is a very reliable, and huge welfare organization. It doesnt rival Edhi in size, but it is huge nonetheless. Edhi center has a very strict system of adoption, and Im pretty sure Chippa follows similar rules and regulations.
Im no fan of Amir Liaquat, and I think that his quest for ratings is just plain stupid....but I do believe that proper adoption procedures must have been followed....and the couple in question must have been interviewed and vetted in advance.
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To play the devil's advocate......I think that the TV show was most certainly preceded by that procedure you are talking about, and that it was all predetermined....and that the scene created on the tv show was just for ratings.
Chippa is a very reliable, and huge welfare organization. It doesnt rival Edhi in size, but it is huge nonetheless. Edhi center has a very strict system of adoption, and Im pretty sure Chippa follows similar rules and regulations.
Im no fan of Amir Liaquat, and I think that his quest for ratings is just plain stupid....but I do believe that proper adoption procedures must have been followed....and the couple in question must have been interviewed and vetted in advance.
Thats the thing, if such procedure was followed, it should've been made absolutely clear during the show or Geo should've issued a statement by now. Frankly speaking, this is the most important aspect of adoption process which needed to be highlighted along with everything else.
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Thats the thing, if such procedure was followed, it should've been made absolutely clear during the show or Geo should've issued a statement by now. Frankly speaking, this is the most important aspect of adoption process which needed to be highlighted along with everything else.
But that would lose the 'shock appeal', and with it, ratings. Geo is a ratings hungry channel that will go to any lengths to achieve them.
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yeh mqm chaap molvi se aap kya expect kar saktay hain. is ghatya insaan ko siwaay galyon ko aor kya aata hay. I am surprised that how people tolerate this low lying charachter, watch and listen to him on TV. is ki bad shakal dekhtay hi isay 100 jootay marnay ko jee chahita hay.
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He's the new faik-ul-islaam, anday day ya bachay aapko is say kya? some people worship him like they worship their peers