Media Watch column is meant to offer commentary on the affairs of the media.
FEATUREDWith the budget having been presented – a historical first time a government has presented a budget for a sixth time during a tenure, with arguments both for and against – there<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/29/on-the-budget/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDA senior official of the country’s most powerful institution recently accepted the called the demands of a disturbingly burgeoning rights’ movement as genuine and said so at a gathering of 25 to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/29/the-elephant-in-the-room-wants-to-sit-on-you/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDArshad Sharif isn’t exactly a Matiullah Jan. The man isn’t known for his aversion to seeing military men step out of bounds. What happened in Rawalpindi the other day, however, was enough<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/29/defenders-on-airspace-and-illegally-parked-vehicles/" title="Read more" >...</a>
A strange occurrence plays over the print media every year on the 21st of November. The date is the death anniversary of the great Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate, whose work on
FEATUREDYou may or may not have noticed it. Slowly and gradually, Geo, once the mightiest titan amongst the Pakistani news channels, has been eased out of the selection that your local cable<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/06/media-watch-first-they-came-for-geo/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThis column has been used in the past to describe how in mature democracies with a strong culture of free speech, the judges can be criticised endlessly. And this is not just talking about criticism o
FEATUREDA “trial” that was watched most eagerly. The Supreme Court taking on Dr Shahid Masood in response to his scandalous set of revelations regarding the tragic Kasur rape-murder case.Initially, pare
FEATUREDIt was uncomfortable viewing. But then, that’s a given when it comes to Waqt News’ Matiullah Jan. The man pulls no punches and has a reputation for being very blunt when it comes to his
FEATUREDHe was always given to hyperbole. Naturally, Shoaib Shaikh, the middle-class kid from Faisalabad didn’t found a humongous and shady diploma mill on the basis of calling a spade a spade. No,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/03/11/delusions-of-grandeur-4/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDIn the good bad old days of the terrible nineties - a decade that is held up as some sort of standard adjective of depravity that the political class should avoid - allegations of corruption by the po
FEATUREDOur man Wajahat S Khan — Waj Bro to those close to him — is angry. Angry and he can’t take it anymore.Now one doesn’t know what actually happened, but, if we were to put two and two toget
UncategorizedDon’t let the Wedding Industrial Complex fool you; even under the best of circumstances, ones wedding day isn’t “the happiest day of your life.” Nerves are at play and everyone is extremely hi
