Editors Get a Seat at Pakistan’s Top Table
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on April 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
An article by Amanda Hodge of the The Australian newspaper published on April 15 quoted my Huffington Post article about the appointment of two of Pakistan’s veteran journalists Arif Nizami and Najam Sethi in the caretaker governments in Pakistan and wondered if their appointment would end censorship in Pakistan, including lifting the ban on The Baloch … Read more
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Pakistan’s Walter Cronkite Heads the Regional Government
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on April 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar Pakistan’s two mainstream political parties, the Pakistan People’s Party (P.P.P.) and the Pakistan Muslim League (P.M.L.-Nawaz), agreed to appointrenowned journalist Najam Sethi as the caretaker chief minister of the country’s largest province of the Punjab. Earlier, the two parties had nearly disappointed their followers over failing to reach consensus on the appointment of a caretaker prime … Read more
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Moderates killed in Pakistan’s ‘soft coup’
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 24, 2012 · 1 Comment
(NOTE: The internationally acclaimed war correspondent Christina Lamb of the Sunday Times, London, interviewed me for her following article about the increasing attacks on moderate and progressive elements in Pakistan. I am reproducing the piece here for your reading as you will have no access to the original article until you are a subscriber to … Read more
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Honoring Journalists
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 14, 2010 · 1 Comment
I was interviewed by a radio journalist-cum-student this morning to give an analogy of the media in the US and Pakistan. I said everyone in the US was currently predicting about the death of newspapers whereas in the developing countries like Pakistan and India, print journalism was not dying any time soon. In spite of … Read more
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What Happened in New Delhi conference?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on February 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar “I really don’t understand your (Pakistani) people,” regretted this Indian journalist fellow who was also one of the organizers of the recently held India-Pakistan conference: A roadmap towards peace in New Delhi. It was a tea break. Both of us walked slowly out of the conference hall of India International Center … Read more
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Revisiting the Che Guevara-like Days of Baloch Resistance Movement with Asad Rahman
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on October 19, 2009 · 34 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Guerilla movements in Balochistan have always been romanticized by young men who aspire to overthrow the domineering elite and bring revolutions. Taking to the hills for the rights of the Baloch fatherland is what has placed many Baloch governors, princes and tribal chiefs at irremovable positions in the annals of the … Read more
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Boots, guns, tanks now come to Daily Balochistan Express/ Azadi
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 21, 2009 · 5 Comments
<img By Malik Siraj Akbar “I told the forces deployed outside my office that I was a journalist not a “terrorist”,” recalls Rashid Baloch [name changed], a reporter affiliated with Quetta-based daily Balochistan Express. Rashid, 25, was on his way for the morning shift at the newspaper office located a few hundred meters away from … Read more
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DAILY TIMES EDITORIAL: And now drones for Balochistan?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
EDITORIAL: And now drones for Balochistan? No one in Pakistan will support the reported plans in Washington to extend American drone attacks from the Tribal Areas to the already disturbed province of Balochistan. The Foreign Office in Islamabad has dismissed the news about the broadening of attacks published in the New York Times as speculation, … Read more
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Baloch protest against ‘Talibanisation’
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Editorial: Daily Times Tuesday, January 06, 2009 The Balochistan National Party (BNP) Information Secretary and former senator Mr Sanaullah Baloch told Daily Times on Sunday that “supporters” of the Taliban had “captured land worth Rs2 billion in the eastern and western parts of Quetta” to “undermine the Baloch nationalist movement”. He accused the government of … Read more
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Defending the Media – By Najam Sethi
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on July 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Before you start reading the below given editorial of The Friday Times, I think the best thing for the Pakistani media to express solidarity with Daily Aaj Kal would be to reproduce the controversial cartoon in all the Pakistani newspapers on the Danish model. We have to take such bold initiatives if we are determined … Read more
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