Adil Najam
News is that GEO Network is closing down. I hope the news is a false alarm, but I am told that this has been announced on Geo TV itself. An email making the rounds from someone at GEO itself reads:
At this moment we here at Geo are extremely SAD as Geo network is forced to shut down due to Govt pressure on UAE our base country.
Insha Allah we will fight. We are proud that the management of Jang Group never made compromise and prefer to fight till death.
I would rather wait to hear more details and to see reaction to this from the government, from the people of Pakistan and also the rest of the world before I comment in detail. But my first reaction is, yet again, one of disgust. The things that we coudl have been most proud of in recent years and months – an assertive judiciary, a free media – are being snatched away one by one. I hope it turns out not to be so. But if so, then who next?
Original Post (Nov. 4, 2007):
The emergency declared by Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday was not surprising. But that does not make it any less disturbing. Amongst the many unspeakable actions that have resulted from this is a clampdown on the media, especially the electronic news media. In response, GEO News has made the audio stream of its transmissions available on line.
You can listen to GEO News by clicking on image below.
Windows Media Player or VLC is required to play this live audio.
you can also watch geo at http://pakistanvision.com
I hear the gov. side again as always they have nothing to offer but liers and crooks.
Mush has gathered mentally sick people around him.
Live video of GEO News is available at the following site:
http://www.forumpakistan.com/geo-tv-online.html
Enough Saab or Sahiba?
Thanks for your comments, I accept your criticisms. My defence is only that I am trying to get as many different people on ATP and other forums to visit Other Pakistan so they can help me in creating an’other’ Pakistan. My intentions are only to help change Pakistan, thus I agree at times it must be extremely boring to see me plug my website endlessly on ATP.
However you are obviously ignorant in knowing that ATP has many different visitors every day and thus my approach normally works. I couldnt give a toss about web stats or anything of the sort, I just need to expose the Other Pakistan vision to as many people as I can and ATP is one route to achieving that. My aim is to get Pakistanis inside and outside of Pakistan to work together to improve Pakistan, it may be a waste of time, it may annoy some people but the aim is a sincere one- to create a TRUE LAND OF THE PURE.
But I guess I have upset you no end and I apologise unreservedly to you and any other ATP friends who have yawned at another diatribe from me. Unfortunately (or fortunately whichever side my ATP friends are on!) it will continue as my aims are to serve Pakistan in whatever way I can, period.
Maaf karna ATP friends especially my dear friend ‘Enough’
Feimanallah
Wasim
Thanks for the Geo Audio link. Have been glued to it.
Just heard something very intersting there. There is an IT revolution that is styming govt efforts entirely.
Yesterday was the day that the HIGHEST NUBMBER of SMS messages were sent. On average 10 per phone. This was announced by the Mobile phone companies. What is happening is that cell phones and SMSs are taking over where the TV channels have left. There is a NEW NEWS NETWORK in Pakistan. It is the SMS News Network and this the govt cannot block!