War on JANG

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Jang Group's petition filed in Supreme Court |  PFUJ,  APNEC petition

NEWS IN REVIEW

source:http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/spedition/waronjang/

February 1999

Feb. 10
Jang Group newsprint released, accounts unfrozen
SC adjourns hearing in Jang, PFUJ petitions
Walkouts in NWFP Assembly on arrest of MPA, press freedom
Govt condemned for biased attitude against press
New batch of journalists takes over at hunger-strike camp

Feb. 09	PRESS FREEDOM MARCH
KARACHI:Benazir Bhutto leading a massive press freedom march on Monday.–The News photo by Aijaz Hashmi	Massive press freedom march in Karachi Mir Shakil pleads SC to suspend notices against Jang Group Hearing of Jang Group’s plea today Newsmen pledge to uphold press freedom Benazir writes to HR groups on govt’s victimisation of Jang Group Overseas Pakistanis criticise govt for targeting Jang Group I am duty-bound to protect interests of Jang: Hameed All-party rally in favour of press freedom Journalists hold protest meeting, start hunger-strike PBC seeks to be impleaded in Jang Group petition	Various political parties brought out a rally to express solidarity with the journalists’ struggle against the government’s attitude towards Jang Group on Monday. The rally — led among others by PPP’s Benazir Bhutto and JI’s Prof Ghafoor Ahmed — is seen passing through I I Chundrigar Road. –The News photo by Aijaz Hashmi

Feb. 08

An inconvenient truth…

source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=100179 

Saturday, March 08, 2008
M P Bhandara

Various expressions such as ‘massive victory’, ‘crushing defeat’, ‘a clean sweep of President Musharraf’s allies’, ‘the nation rejects previous rulers’ and a slew of chest-thumping slogans have been used by the victors and the media to celebrate the electoral success of the PPP and the PML-N. Even the New York Times, on February 29 referred to the “overwhelming rejection of Musharraf’s party by the voters this month”; surprising since the Times has a reputation for scrupulous fidelity to facts. There is an inconvenient truth about this election and President Musharraf has pointed it out in his assertion that his allies have got more votes than his adversaries.

Let us consider the voting facts for a moment: According to the statistics of the Election Commission, the PML-Q and its allies, the MQM, the PML-F and the PPP-S received 10,844,233 votes. The PPP-P received 10,055,491 votes and the PML-N 6,240,343 votes. Therefore, the PML-Q and allies received 40 per cent of votes, the PPP-P 37 per cent and the PML-N 23 per cent of the 27.14M votes cast for the three major parties.

Nawaz Sharif: The Reality, Dictator or Democrat

source : http://pak1stanfirst.com/2008/01/04/nawaz-sharif-the-reality-dictator-or-democrat/

It was reported today that Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who is calling for restoration of Pre-November 2 Judiciary had harassed, Jasmine Manzoor, anchor for Business Plus TV when she was asking questions to the said. Nawaz Sharif lost his temper when asked routine questions about deals, etc, grabbed the tape and warned her that he would see how she left Raiwind if she aired it.

There was a press conference aired at 7:00 PM local time by Business Plus TV, in which Jasmine Manzoor and Rana Mubashir spoke about Nawaz Sharif’s behavior . It is also reported that ARY one world pulled out there story last minute when received threats.

(The Picture on the Right shows Nawaz sharif giving interview at his Raiwand Estate)

This is not just a question about Nawaz Sharif, rather it about the so called Leaders who call them selves democratic. There has been previous stories like these which had been reported.

It is also very much impressive of Mr.Sharif, Ex-Primer, that his fight is for restoration of Pre-November 2 Judiciary. There are many other concerns that has come up with respect to these democratic leaders.

Mr. Sharif also showed up at Geo News “Yak-jahti” camp and supported media’s independence. Where as the President Pervez Musharraf, an ex-Uniformed President and ex-Army General, allowed 57 television channels to open and broadcast news and current affairs. The question that you might see after looking at this video at youtube know as “President Pervez Musharraf vs. Syed Adnan Kakakhel”, one just keeps on thinking what is wrong here, dictator are democratic and democrats are dictators.

The question to ask is how and when will we have these norms in our so-called democratic leaders? And do we really need some dictator like Musharraf to teach them these norms?

Keeping National Interest First!