Dr. Shahid Masood has joined PTV as a Chairman as per multiple news sources.
ISLAMABAD: Jang Representative – Federal government has appointed Dr. Shahid Masood as the chairman of Pakistan Television Corporation. The Establishment division has sent out his appointment’s notification. This post will be in effect until further notice. Previously, this position was delegated to Federal Secretary of Information.
Link to Jang Daily
Link to Daily Times Article
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strange news, don’t know what to say!
You have got to be kidding me!!!
May be the govt. is trying to improve PTV
How can Shahid Masood improve PTV ? By introducing culture of interrupting people constantly ?
lol
This selection is NOT on merit rather loot from national resource. He should go and prove in hospital first.
I can’t wait till 4-man show does a skit on him chairing a PTV board meeting.. hahaha!
Though I gotta say, will he be able to maintain his “neutrality” ??
Reminds me of someone’s comment the other day: He’s a pipplya from the outside but MQM from the inside… maybe his appointment is part of the ‘mufaahimat’ between the two parties.. hehehe
I’m gonna miss poking fun at him .;)
Admin
Please list down/provide your sources of the news. Any link?
@ashahid,
Ticker on ARY One World.
@Aneeza
May be you dont like Dr. Shahid Massod, but many do. His research is always complete, and he doesnt take pressure from any side. He can improve PTV by making it unbiased. And if this news item is correct, im quite sure that’s why the govt. decided to lure him into this deal, just to show that they are trying to make the state owned channel independent
Independent Channel???
Dr. Shahid Masood is now effectively reporting to Rehman Malik, Hussain Haqqani and Zardari.
55 lakh per month baby!! way to go!
@rasheed have you seen his recent interviews with Rehman Malik, Hussain Haqqani ? i think he asked them tough questions,but yea maybe it might be attempt to tone him down abit, lets see if he can really improve PTV or just act as Zirdari’s mouth piece
After all his qaseeda singing abilities had a price.
/Saqib
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@TK thats not even 1lakh $ per month, what are other chairmans of state owned news channels getting?
is that APRIL …………………………… JOKING ????
Very difficult to say any thing. Dr SM has good relations with Hussain Haqqani and other PPP leaders including AZ.
HH may have some role in Dr SM degree from USA. Now it seems that finally he had decided to join the boat.
It is very difficult to remain neutral rather crtical of Govt. Lets see how he handels his new role.
Different qualities are required now and he may be avery successful CM .
Shocking socking, I lost one of my favorite anchors.
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Is there anyone who is not for sale!!!!!
@TK
“55 lakh per month baby!! way to go!”
Task given to him is to relax and keep quiet.
PTV here comes new Dr. Ahmed Shahid Masood Qureshi.
@Azad,
SM is still going to be reporting to Rehman Malik. Even the stupid most person cannot believe that PTV will be running on governments fund and blaming government on TV.
PZP regime have played the best card in their favor. They got rid of one of the top anchors from private channel and will also try to switch rural viewers to their side who only have antenna to watch TV transmissions.
I think Dr. Shahid Masood has joined Peoples Party ‘s pppppppppp TV
If he speaks bold in the same manners as he was used to on geo, then how long he ‘s gonn’a servive there ?
i think ptv should follow bbc model and dr shahid can be valuable asset. i am sure he must have but sth on contract regarding which sort of freedom he will get and if they try to tone him down he can always walk away with 5.5 million even more cauz of forced unemployment.
How come Dr. Shahid Masood be reporting to Rehman Malik or Hussain Haqqani. At the very most, he will have Sherry Rehman as Minister in charge. I guess if this news is correct then I am glad to hear this. If you want to make PTV gain some credibility, you need a person like Dr. Shahid Masood to fix it. I hope he will maintain his impartiality and continue his program on PTV global.
Probably we are being a bit unfair with Dr. SM. After all he is an anchor person employed by geo t.v and if he gets a better offer why he shouldn’t pick that up ? Its the job of politicians to make/break policies, what a t.v anchor has to do with this ? If I am working at IBM and gets a better offer from HP, I may consider to move there. If I have the right to switch jobs why doesn’t he has ?
I am not sure if he has joined ptv or not but even if he has then may be he can do something good for it.
QUESTION : Why Dr. Shahid Masood has joined a State Run TV channel (GOVT propaganda machine) when he can get a Top Job at any other independent TV channel?
ANSWER: If this news is true then SIMPLE,
PPP knew that he will be giving them a hard time
so a cunning person like Hussain Haqani and Rehman Malik asked him of HIS PRICE,
and what ever $$PRICE$$ he said, PPP said OK lets go with that.
Dont be surprised if its TRUE,,,,,,,,,,,,,
and STOP SKETCHING GOD out of ordinary people in a country where most of the people have a PRICE.
U STUPID AWAM !!!
btw i am also part of this awam…..
Chairman PTV is more of a political post as for technical/mangerial matters, MD PTV is enough to take care of.
IN NS 2nd tenure, Pervaiz Rasheed ws chairman PTV who is PMLN leader and not a journalist.
So i think, this chairmanship of PTV is not a job for anchor shahid masood, rather it will be used to counter current media campaign for awareness of common people.
First crack at the media, civil society is next and than the judges. Awaam kiss keth kee mooli hain!!
Again its the matter of choice. Perhaps everyone has some political inclination towards a party. If I want to have the right to be a supporter of Party A then I have to give the same right to you to choose your party with your free will. Whether ppp is bad or pml n is corrupt etc etc I guess its a useless debate. Every party comes with a good motto, its the people who run parties matter.
If Dr. SM is offered chairmanship of ptv why he shouldn’t take it ? Only because its ppp’s govt. Does it mean that if it happens to be pml n’s govt then it was ok to do so ? With all merits and demerits of pml n, I think Parvez Rashid sahib is still a good person. Will it make Dr. SM a bad guy by taking the same position but in ppp’s govt ?
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PTV is owned by the government, so how can Dr. Shahid stay neutral when he has now become part of the the government ? It just can not happen. Besides, this was probably done to shut him up. Let’s see what happens to the Bolta duo and to journalist like Ansar Abbasi, etc.
This is just like when President of Lahore Bar Ahsan BHONE decided to join as a judge and took oath under PCO. This was a shameful act. And the potential of this move is same as if Imran Khan decides today to join PPP or Etizaz Ahsen become senator of PPP or CJ Iftikhar decide to quit his movement.
Dr. Shahid is not an ordinary anchor person who just read what ever is given to him by Producer. He is a great wise man and does research for each of his episode.
Changing job, no doubt is his right as every body like to grow and grab the opportunity if it come along down the road. But the thing is does he change his ideology?
@Aneeza don’t hurt people, we still love him and will wait and see how he performs there. Like @ establishment said If he tried to change the culture of PTV and remain critical on bad moves of present government I would praise him for that but if he tried to go along with the wind and become spokesperson for PPP then I would say he is a traitor and LOTA
But honestly speaking, I am SAD. This brought another session for depression for me
@niazbhatti,
u r solla anay such BUT remember Pervaiz Rashid was a well known PMLN member and never tried to sell his image as a independent world known political analyst who portrays to be unbiased and claims to be the savior of Pakistani Journalism ……………………. like Dr. Shahid Masood……………. !!!
LOL…..
when news came about him at Harvard, I was the few one here at this forum who said that “its Ivey League American Mentality to pick people from Third World Countries and groom them for self interests”
nothing against Dr. Masood, BUT i done like him taking this job …….afterall this nation deserves better than this……. no more NAZIR NAJI and NUSRAT JAVED…………..!!! and now Dr. Masood
@niazbhatii
point is not of chairmanship under ppp or pmln.
point is of HYPOCRACY…..
Pervaiz Rashid was openly on PMLn side and paid the price after 12 october.
Immediate task on PTV is to counter the campaign of lawyers and long march media campaign………now this guy dr shahid had been presenting himself as champion of free media and showing support for laweyrs movemet stance………..so dont u think his U turn will expose his reality.
thats really very strange
just another rumor, made as headline by pkpolitics
@GM
wait my dear, he just joined, joining is not hypocrisy. Let him do some sins then we will all bash him
I don’t understand this “neutrality” thing! In fact I don’t believe in it. One can be fair or unfair but most of time it is impossible to be neutral unless you are an outsider.
Everybody knows that Dr. SM has been previously associated with People’s Student Federation like Nusrat Javed, but they have been very fair in their analysis and that’s the reason people respect them.
I hope now PTV will improve its news and current affiar programs because DR SM is very talented person.
One thing to understand, once Musharaf would leave, Judges will come back ( which is eventually happen soon, according to the multiple news), people are not going to follow this politics soap opera with the same interest. So Dr. SM did the right thing to accept the big offer, after all he has to feed his family and want to move higher in his life just like everybody else.
Just imagine if PPP managed to Buy-Out, Himid Meer, Kamran Khan, Talat Husain, Mushtaq Minhas and Kashif Abbasi, Where this movement for free judiciary go.
And I am afraid that is going to happen soon. Sub Bakaoo mall hain.
I don’t remember who said but some one did———-Pakistani to paisay kay budlay apni maan bhee sell ker daitay hain——-I was so pissed off with those comments but I think was it true??
Joke is on Shahid Masood, the so called icon of anti-establishment jouranalism has joined the establishment. Now he is going to sing praises of Zardari?
This PTV should be privatized immediately. A complete waste of taxpayayers money. Look at its ugly logo, thay have not changed or modified it since its inception, it symbolises the past, relic of a propagandist,shameful past. It should be buried along with the Martial Laws it used to support.
@ Immediate task on PTV is to counter the campaign of lawyers and long march media campaign………now this guy dr shahid had been presenting himself as champion of free media and showing support for laweyrs movemet stance………..so dont u think his U turn will expose his reality.
1- How can you say with certainty that he will curb lawyers movement ?
2- Do you think that along with 50 other independent channels one Dr. SM will be able to make a dent in the movement ? If so then such a movement should be abandoned who can’t tackle one person. (Although it survived against organized agencies).
3- Why we always wanna see the dark side of picture. Lets wait and see, I am keeping my fingers crossed.
For 55lakh per month, evem pkpolitics will consider a change
If accepting a position during ppp’s govt is a sign of hypo then I guess Chief Justice should also wait for pml n’s rule otherwise he may also get the medal of hypoc …. .I know you probably say that but cj post is not a political post but then who appoints supreme court’s judges ? Do they get appointed without any political parties willingness or advice etc ?
what even musharraf could not do – zardari has done it – he has put a price on Shahid Masood and he has been bought. Shame on Shahid Masood. You know basically as a nation its a shame to call ourselves a nation – we have no principles or rules at all – but its good at least now we know the real Shahid Masood.
As I said earlier that with passage of time and esp when Musharraf would be long gone – people would remember him with nostalgia as he would appear to be an angel when compared with Zardari and company.
I know I am asking for a very impossible thing – I think there people should try to bridge differences between PML N Q Musharraf and CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry because Zardari and company would be far more ruthless and dangerous because they are LIARS. At least Q league was not a liar and they say howsoever wrong what they believe in heart but this Zardari and company are MUNAFIQS and they say one thing and do other thing. They are corrupt and liars.
@ c hussain very well said… 100% truth …..
Yes I am also not in the favor of Chief Justice becoming political…….
but why I favor him….???
SIMPLE: yes he took oath under PCO ……. ( i condemn it)
but now he is our only hope to get back on track….and we need to giver him some credit for “saying the right thing”….. remember even AQK also said that CJ did what he wasnt able to do…………..
plus its the current GOVT n I blame both PMLN and PPP who have forced him to come in open to fight for his bread and butter……….. so dnt blame him. ur father would have done the same for your Dinnerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@niazbhatii
no one said that he will be successful to curb lawyers movement. and PTV is already working on these lines but unsuccessfully.
@niazbhatti,
Proofs of hypocrisy:
- Musharraf’s close ally and Federal Minister Salman Taseer gifted post of Punjab Governor. This is a heavy investment to bring Salman’s TV Channel and newspapers to PPP side.
- Qatil’s League’s senior leader and ex-Chief Minister Watto joins PPP along with several politicians
- PPP killers MQM and Musharraf’s closest allies also gifted with posts in cabinet in Sindh Assembly.
- Champion of 17th Amendment Maulana Diesel given position in cabinet by PPP.
…. and the list of hypocrisy goes on daily basis.
inna lillah i wa inna ilaih i rajioon!
Justice wajeehudin in his press conference warned the media that the campaign to buy it has started. now that politicians have realized that free media is a reality of pakistan they cannot change they are going to buy em out one by one.
I think this is the beginning of the end, good bye Geo , Aaj ,Ary .hello fox news
@ Rasheed
Good points and I agree to all of them but how they prove that Dr. SM is a hypo ?
All those people/parties you mentioned above are known thieves.
Let us give Dr. sahib some time and let him show first what he has in his basket and then say something about it.
Secondly if we start blame game then is there anyone who can escape from an allegation ? (IK probably one exception but people do blame him for supporting mushe in the beginning).
SO many conspiracy theories here, let the guy do somethign on PTV first. iF he didnt sell out to the all powerful mush and co., why would he sell out to zardari. I am sure the govt has done this to revamp PTV< and its image, and nothing else. And I am also sure that SM wil continue being unbiased as he always is
@niaz,
Dr. Shahid Masood himself said in Geo TV during emergency crisis that he is not against Musharraf, but he is going to criticize every government to expose their wrong doings. How can he expose any wrong doings of his employer? Can any true journalist be on payroll of government instead of a pure media group?
There is a large part of Pakistani nation who build their opinions based on words of Dr. Shahid Masood. Now he will make policies of PTV or even host some programs where he will follow the government policies.
For example, tomorrow if he start saying that food is more important issue that justice and government should solve food crisis before even thinking of restoring judiciary, then many Pakistanis will think the same, which could cool down the lawyers movement.
actually it’s pretty much bribing him to get him off the air.. afaiac !! He won’t be making any noises now… oh well.. I’m gonna miss his annoying intonations.
@c hussain
What you have described is what the ZPP (Zardari’s people’s party) folks call politics, when it is actually munafiqat.
@TK,
Paisa bolta hai. May be he was shown lots of Benjamins and he could no longer resist it.
guys money wont be more than 7-10lakh, I personally know a recent MD PTV he was getting 5 lakh plus house and a car.
why dont you guys give credit to PPP for appointing one of its biggest critics for a very important post. If they make mistakes in future this move can be dangerous for them butt still they took this risk.
Despite all these biased comments i think this is another move towards free media in Pakistan.
“”why dont you guys give credit to PPP for appointing one of its biggest critics for a very important post.”"”
no they wont
beacuse they are bloody Bias against PPP.
@jamil,
Even top Junails and DOGar court judges are not getting more than 2 lakh per month. But the main catch for them are the free “plots” in Islamabad that they can sell for Crore (Rs. 10 million) each.
rasheed
Generals and Judges come under the Govt Pay Scal.
while MD PTV is a head of a semi Govt organizations.
like MD PIA
Like PCB Chairman
media in pakistan is still not mature, there are some good journalist and anchors but media groups are crap frankly speaking. only Ajj tv owners are a bit professional.
dr shahid and hamid mir are both Guzara. specially when they ask follow up questions, they tend to forget what they were talking about and jump to another topic, which is a bit childish for a good journalist. I think they dont prepare questions before interviews and just try to go with the flow….
come on.
People think {i though i dnt agree} that they are the most professional Journalists.
as far as media Groups are concverned JANG GROUP is the most Richest organization of pakistan.
@Awais,
The point I am trying to tell is that you can make more money at the end if you are in good books of the present government, and source of money is not only salary.
It is a crystal clear professional conflict of interest for a journalist working on government payroll. All of us love Dr. SM based on his journalist profession, not as a chairman of a government institute.
It is fine if he chooses to manage a government institute, but he should put his journalist profession on hold and just run the PTV without trying to influence the public opinions.
We should leave the opinion building job to pure journalists who are not running on government payroll.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Either he has lost his mind or PTV is going to under go a HUGE change!!!
rasheed
isnt it a bias of you that you regard a person as ‘professional Journalist’ and as soon as he is made a Chairman of a Govt institute he becomes Unprofessional and bad!
@Awais
MD PTV is a different post and yousaf baig is MD of PTV??
chairman PIA is Ahmed Mukhtar….appointed by defence minister Ahmed Mukhtar..
its we who say Dr SM is neither Professional nor independent irrespective he works on GEO/ARY/PTV.
I still dont understand why cant they make PTV a complete autonomous organization?
GM
you didnt got my point i think.
i said MD PTV and MD PIA/Chairman PIA are the heads of semi Government organizations.
and their pays are not in the rank of Usual government ranks.
Now all those who had a go on me when I said something about Hamid Mir and Shahid Masood ,should eat their own sh@t.
Its money my Friend.
simple.
democrat
i totally agree
when all these people were paraising Dr Shahid Masood for his ‘independence’ and ‘professional Journalistic attitude’ .
when we said he is none of these all those try to bash us saying we are Bias.
now where are those!
I dnt think so Govt SHOULD Make him the chairman of PTV. Specially a person who has been suspected to connections with ISI.
No one should question SM and Hamid Mir’s integrity, either they just dont prepare enough for their shows or as an anchor they have limited abilities.
SHOULD NOT MAKE HIM A CHAIRMAN
Also they are to close to politicians, civil and military elite. You must have heard Dr shahid was sitting with zardari etc or hamid mir meet this military or civilian guy. I mean as an independent journalist they should be really careful. These meetings should be only linked to an interview or press conference!!!
The problem with us pakistanis is that we are too emotional and want to see everything through our lenses. This guy has accepted (if its true) a very challenging and risky position and has put his credibility at stake which he earned in a very hard way under lot of duress and stress, being fired a number of times from different channels (especially the one which is showing this ticker). If you guys think he is after this money then you better keep your record straight. He can earn a number of time more money by just keeping his previous job as a royal college senior surgeon (may be C Hussain can speculate on his expected salary there).
I can’t imagine that he will take this job without any pre-conditions attached which should include complete editorial freedom and no govt pressure on any issue. My respect for PPP will start going up (which had started eroding after AZ flip-flops) if thats the case.
Guys hold your guns and don’t get emotiional.
why are my comments being censored
@bechari awam
well said..
jamil
thats wrong if you think that independent Journalist should not have contacts/Friendships with the Politicians/others.
Friendship is something different.
one must be independent in it s analysis.
there having lot of LEFTIST Journalists who has been independent.
there has been so many muslims Journalists who are independent instead of having Belief!
bechari-awam
come on a ‘royal college senior suregon’ earns about 4-7 Lakh per month in ENGLAND
he is earling more than that in GEO at present
Assalam-o-Alaikum,
How it could be possible for Dr.Shahid Masood to accept this offer to become the PTV Chairman in this present political setup. I am sure we must have an another individual who also have the same name in Pakistan.
Dr. Shahid Masood can never let all of us down………. I really mean that. I am 100 % sure that this is wrong information may be circulated by Major General (Retd.) Rashid Qureshi.
Well I Analyze the situation sans reading any above comments:
1. If he did by choice, he wanted to gain further popularity of his views. In that way he might start his own program on ptv. And his reach could be ten fold through the more reliable terrestrial network of PTV.
2. If he did not do it by choice, then he might forced to do this by PPP. Geo also might have been forced to let him go at the expense pf fair competition and getting a licence for the english television channel.
3. In the end, probably both scenarios discussed in point 1 and point 2 might be relevant. I mean somehow dr. shahid masood might have thought that what choice now do I have. If Geo lets me go, and I wont go back to ARY then lets end up at PTV. Although he had a choice for Aaj TV. Well lost of gossip for the day……
well don e dr shahid masood ,good decision we need people like him to support govt on issues like tribal areas , i salute govt to take stand against usa in tribal areas . and balichistan as well
This news is been confirmed by Jang
http://jang.com.pk/jang/may2008-daily/31-05-2008/main4.htm
Another great choice by PPP government after Shoaib Suddle’s appointment as IG Sindh! Dr. Masood’s style is annoying but he is definitely not a PP yes man.
It shows PP has the courage to appoint people on merit (relatively speaking).
We will see how much he going to critisize PPP or its policies the way he did in merey mutabiq, this decesion looks like a bribe to shutt his mouth against govt. & he accpets it…strange…
He was a Piplia anyway so he got where he wanted to. he always supports Zardari so now got rewarded for that
give him chance to prove a point.im sure he will be neutral even on ptv.
It is hard to believe – BUT it might be good business move from PPP government and PTV. Since now a days folks from Pak Watan are interested in only political TalkShows and he might bring more advertisements and viewers to PTV. Other than that still PTV drama is superior then any private networks
I cant beleive this. I am worried about Dr. Shahid, I dont know what the establishment/Govt. will do with Dr. Shahid. Because i cant expect good from Govt. for the great people like Dr. Shahid, Dr. Qadeer, Imran Khan etc.
If Dr. Shahid made a deal with Zardari, than everybody will start hate him.
he was always a sell out
Zardai mentioned that soon PTV will be an independent channel.
I think Zardai offered Dr.Shahid an opportunity and to accept a challenge to change PTV immage.
Just my observation,
Regards,
Munir Hussain
I can not believe it
PTV should be made an independant entity like NPR (or BBC).
One of the few good moves by the PPP govt so far.
well done Mr saleh zafir —–well done .
http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/may2008-daily/31-05-2008/main4.htm
I can not believe this!
Ohhh My God!!!
Dr. Shahid will never be able to erase this ‘dhubba’ from his face- he has been politicized forever!!! As I wrote a few days ago that he is PPPilyya from outside and MQMwalla from inside – I’m glad my statement proved right so fast
Plus this proves the point why he gave so much importance to Najam Sethi on this shows lately!!!
I have no doubt left that Hamid Mir has been compromised by Zardari too! Read this latest articles and you would notice his soft stance towards Zardari…. Hamid Mir also portrays agenda of Zardari on CJ Restoration i.e. to fix term to 4 or 5 years.
Here is what Zardari and Co. doing…
1) Buy time on judges restoration so that awam gets sick of this thorny issue and slowly start moving away from CJ Chaudhary’s demand. Constitution Package’s 62 points would never get approved by a single party.
2) During that time slowly flat out ‘thorny’ ancher men. So far Zardari and Co. have succeeded in flattening out Dr. Shaid Masood, Hamid Mir, Shaheen Subhai. Najam Sethi of the Daily Times was already in their pocket.
Rest to go: Bota Pakistan Duo, Ansar Abbasi, Rauf Klasara, Haroon Rasheed, Javaid Chaoudhary.
Javeed Chaudhary… impossible
Bolta pakistan …. possible
Ansar Abbasi ….. can be emotionally blackmailed
Rauf Klaasra ….. very possible
Haroon Rashid…. Dont know…
May be Dr.Shahid Masood got tired of abiding by GEO policy ( 100% Pro Nawaz Sharif ) also he does not want to lie any more. Congratulation and thank you Dr.Masood , you are keeping the spirit of true journalism alive.
Don’t be astonished. It is a deliberate move. Recall Dr SM’s last few programmes. He is the only person keeping Benazir’s issue alive- a thing very irritating to Rahman Malik and Co. He has been offered to be quite. Dr SM appointment is linked with the assasination of Benazir Bhutto. He talked and he was approached. And Dr SM knew it well. Good luck
@j.a.g
are u from army’s jag branch…
by the way ur last comment was BS
This is a very sad news. Dr Shahid Masood has been manipulated by Zardari.He is his friendand got the reward but at the cost of his journalistic ethocs. Very sad I did not think that Dr.Shahid was also availableforsale like other shameless once BB loyalists nowlicking Zardari’s feet. True colours of human beings we have witnessed during the past 5 months.
Good decision by PPP Ns government.
A news that is ignored by media and Bhutto haters:
Akram Sheikh a Lawyer Movement Leader broke the boycott of PCO judges by presenting in favour of NS SS duo in front Election Tribunal.
Sheikh sahib claimed to be representing the ‘Civil Society’.
NBS SS made proxy representation in front of PCO judges. What a bunch of hypocrites.
@jag,
You did not reply to your lies about $35,000 hotel.
Secondly, Pakistani nation has progressed and they are getting out of their shells of Pro-NS, Pro-PPP, Pro-Xyz etc. Media and People are now smart enough to appreciate or follow parties based on issues and their stance/actions rather than the face of their leader or their sacrifices.
If tomorrow PMLN turns against restoration of judiciary, then Geo will also become anti-Nawaz Sharif, because it is very very difficult for media to take anti-popular stance in this age of competition.
guys stop this nonsense he accepted job for pakistan tv not indian tv , give him chance may be he will remain neutral and support govt on issue to issue, and criticize govt on some issues as well
55 lakh ??????? Are you serious – Its over a million dollar a year – And most likely no or almost no taxes – Its unbelievable. A country where per capitca income is less than 1000 dollars / yr and Govt. spends this much in governance – no wonder every politician wants to spend millions of rupees to contest elctions—- Sorry state of Affairs – SAD SAD SAD
I still can’t believe it – Its probably a typo- its most likely 55 lakh a year or 5 lakh per month–
@ Jamil, why you expect every one to speak your language, I am not a sheep to follows the hurd , i listen , i see and i make up my mind, set my own directions. Also I just checked with Dorchester London, three nights most expensive suite US$ 9800.
@malik123,
Please stop your nonsense.
Dr. Shahid will be on Government payroll and it will be pure conflict of interest as “Dr. Shahid will be Government”
It will be unethical for Dr. SM to speak against his own employer. Since he will be a party himself in the media game, he is now morally bound to shut up and not try to influence public opinion.
@jag,
Please stop your propaganda.
Here is link to Jang article of 2 million per night:
http://jang.com.pk/jang/feb2008-daily/04-02-2008/col9.htm
Here is an article that shows the rates for Royal Penthouse at Dorchester.
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article2320293.ece
@jag http://www.dorchesterhotel.com/rooms_suites/rates.html
prices starts from 850 pounds to 6500 pounds per night , klaisra is exagaratting to 14500 pounds
this website is so biased and anti ppp, even they criticize right decisions, ppp appointed one of independnt journalist to improve ptv, people are still moaning,
what will happen if ppp appoints rehmat afridi, frontier post editor on this post
@malik123,
This has been discussed in Pakistani senate too after senators were shocked to see the bill.
It was reported in Jang but I could not find it. Check the following article:
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Musharrafs-Rs-21-lac-a-night-hotel-bill-irks-Senators/278582/
Pakistani Senators have questioned President Pervez Musharraf’s fat hotel bill of Rs 63 lakh during his recent three-day visit to Britain, saying it caused a deep hole for the state exchequer.
Musharraf, who undertook a 10-day tour of the European countries last month, stayed in a royal suite of an expensive hotel near Hyde Park in London. His three-day stay cost Rs 63 lakh.
Senator Azam Swati of the Islamic alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) informed the upper house of Parliament through a point of order yesterday that the hotel the President stayed in charged Rs 63 lakh for three nights or Rs 21 lakh a night.
@malik123 / jag,
The hotel rate list has the “Royal Suite” missing, but the above article confirms that Mush stayed in Royal Suite.
@rasheed
i gave you even website link , you are still not believing it, you believe in this third class journalist , who knows nothing about london,
@malik123,
“this website is so biased and anti ppp, even they criticize right decisions, ppp appointed one of independnt journalist to improve ptv, people are still moaning,
what will happen if ppp appoints rehmat afridi, frontier post editor on this post”.
First of all, if you are Pro-PPP, why are you defending Musharraf’s hotel bill? As far as I know PPP suffered too much under Mush and PPP workers should hate Mush.
Secondly, I did not see anything bias in the news reported by pkpolitics that SM joined PTV? The commentators are free to express what they think is right or wrong.
@malik123,
The link you gave me has “Royal Suite” missing and your Rauf Klasra is 3rd class reporter because he criticized both Musharraf and MQM. It seems you support Mush/MQM more than PPP and just BS’ing here.
The following link shows the rate:
Royal Suite = £17,625 = $35,250 = Rs. 2.2 Million
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article2320293.ece
@rasheed
i am not supporting mush at all , i am rectifying mistake by media , that there is nothing call royal suite and i am not pro ppp as well , i am against all these politicians including nawaz sharif, imran , zardari , they are all so rich and careless about public, you know nawaz sharif got flats on park lane, most expensive road in europe where you can only take lease of property , you can not buy it free hold, same goes with bb and imran khan as well
musharaf son is doing partnership with prince talal one of the biggest share holder in citi bank ,all these generals are corrupt
@malik123,
First you deny about Musharraf’s hotel bill. When you don’t have answer, you start criticizing NS Park Lane apartment which he bought when he was not even in politics.
Before you move forward, first accept that you did pure BS without knowing the facts and now trying to divert the heat to other politicians in pure MQM style.
In a country where the blueprint of the Nuclear Technology could be sold to Korea, Iran and Syria, what is objectionable if the talk show hosts like Shahid Masood, Talaat Husain, Kamran, Hamid Mir, Nusrat Javed, Minhas…………sell their expertise and art to Al-jazeera, Zee TV or Sony, for a reasonable salary?
I guess even Shah Rukh Khan would accept to perform in a Punjabi or Pushto movie, if he gets the rate according to his demand and status.
just just start blaming when you guys dont know any details.
exactly in the same manner, people like you started blaming “Dr Shahid Masood has put a price tag on himself and left ARY for a better sallary”
he had to come up and say it all on tv that he never left ARY, he was fired because of huge government pressure at that time on ARY administration.
i am sure he will clarify his position now as well.
Just dont blame when you guys do not have details!
@TK
“55 lakh per month baby!! way to go!”
is there ANY credible source for what you have said?
Serving foreign interests previously with PPP’s help and assistance to screw the previous govt..
now serving current govt. coz PPP is part of it..
its so f’ing obvious.. its crazy..
its very good to see dr shahid at PTV
he can do more after joining…………..
HALLAH BOL
@ javedsheikh
what a sick comment, utterly waste of space,
“In a country where the blueprint of the Nuclear Technology could be sold to Korea, Iran and Syria, what is objectionable if the talk show hosts like Shahid Masood ……………”
Did not you read that Dr. Qadeer statement that he was forced to make the confession and he was not involved in the proliferation of Nuclear Technology.
And even if Dr. Qadeer or Pakistan did transfer the Nuclear Technology, then so what. Can’t you see how America and UK transferred Atomic Technology to The Terrorist Country ISRAEL.
And how America deceived Jewish scientist Einstein and his atomic theory by using it against Japan in WWII.
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Dr. Shahid is still doing the Meray Mutabiq, I don’t know till when, and I request you everyone that we shouldn’t Prejudge Dr. Shahid integrity, if he had to sell himself, he could had done it ages ago.
In this age of competition, every news channel is looking for a celebrity figure to sell their air time, and if he Dr. Shahid is been picked by PTV then so what, good for him.
Some made a pathetic comment that he is a good mate of Hussain Haqani and that’s why he is been pursuaded to join PTV and be the Spin Doctor for PPP. I am sorry but that’s very far fetched especially if any had seen the Dr. Shahid hosting Hussain Haqani earlier in his show.
Hussain Haqani, seems not to far away from Neo-con or an ‘Enlightened Moderator’ where as Dr. Shahid more or less anti-capitalist and humanist.
come on
have you seen when he was speechless in front of Hussain Haqqani.
and was having no answer to his questions.
and the comments he {HH} passed about him.
“dr Sahab Maslla yeh hai kay aaap samjajhtay hein duniya ail puppets ka tamashaaa hai aur amrika bhitha oper say dorian hilata rehata hai while this is not true”
“And even if Dr. Qadeer or Pakistan did transfer the Nuclear Technology, then so what”
so what?
do you think its nothing to sell some one a Nuclear bomb?
Imagines he would have sold this to Mullahs of lal Masjid they must have used that in Rawalpindi, Islambabad, Karachi or Lahore/
Why do u guys criticizing the Dr. Shahids move to join PTV…
PTV is our state television and we love to see it at better position than now. Lets pray he can do it with hard work and honesty. Lets see if he dont compromises his principals of fair journalism.
Shaz
why dnt you give the credit to the GOVT who brought a person of a credibility {atleast according to most of the peoples opinion here although i dnt agree with it}
to PTV.
I m waiting no one had said him a “LOTTA” or “Deal”
if any Politician or anyone from PPP would have done this would have been called as “LOTTA OR AS DEAL”
@Awais
I appreciate this move from Govt, provided they are really sincere in uplifting the standard of PTV
biggest test of SM, lets see if he becomes PUPPET or MARD-HAQ
Shaz
why do you think that GOVT doesnt want to uplift the standard of PTV.
I think PPP GOVT sincerely want PTV to come to better standards against the Private media.
@Admin can you please upload Jasmine Manzoor vs Mumtaz Bhutto shown on Buisness plus on Friday night? I am sure this program will not be shown again courtesy SALMAN TASEER.
what does shahid masood know about public broadcasting??? the PTV that once was…had progressive intellectuals like aslam azhar, zia mohieuddin, shoaib hashmi, fahd zaidi, and the list goes…
i think dr. masood has bitten off more then he can chew. but then how much worse can PTV get…??
sigh…
“this nation can even sell their mothers for money”
is he proving it right
my faith in cheif justice also getting weak
everyone is for sale
everybody whant money because , AAta, petrole, elecricity, etc
i have written some weeks ago also that Musharraf tried to use force to shut the mouths oif media and that Policy did not work..as politicians plas better then generals so zaradri famous corrupt politician of Pakistan knows the power of money and from last 4-5 weeks PPP was trying to shut the mouths of media by incentives ….well 5.5 million pak rupees for Dr. to become chairman PTV is not bad offer ..and everyone has some price and Dr`s price is 5.5 million Pak rupees..
actually now Dr will not open his mouth may be he will tell stories (he is a good story teller) when PPP Govt. will be gone as General Qayuum (steel Mill ) and other people of Musharraf`s team are telling…
Dr. is a part of Govt now and if he remains there for one years that means about 66 million pak rupees and after one year you can say this was bad, this was not good..i was against this, that..bla bla…not a bad strategy… let us see what Nusrat javed (for his utmost efforts for PPP) get and this idiot hamad Mir is always ready to lick the balls of zaradri…they will get their share also very soon
Alas !
Puhnci wahein pe khaak jahan ka khameer tha.
This is the end of SM as we know it,
Many people in the industry always drew the similarities between SM and late Khalil Malik.
FJ
@ My dear kash218,
Money makes the mare go.
I am sure, this time your approach and response could be the same.
Lets see where NJ fits into the situation
Shahid Masood has long term ambitions. This is the first step. Next would be to run for senate election and become Senator or become ambassador like Maleeha Lodhi or Wajid Shamsul Hassan or Hussain Haqani who were nothing but third rate journalists.
Guys remember there used to be one journalist by name of Azhsr Sohail in BB last goverment – he used to come on TV and tell stories about opposition – he was called Ainak Wala Jin.
Shahid Masood would be another Ainak wala Jin or Azhar Lodhi of Zia fame
Dr shahid might take this assisgnment till the good bye of Mush as zardari is assigning the job of humiliating mush to different men as he cant do this thing personally due to his under hand deals with US.That could be a reason that he offered this job to him.But saying that Dr shahid could make equation with corrupt characters like rehman, zardari,haqani ,farooqi who are actually running the govt affairs seems to me quite impossible,some how if it happens then I would again blame myself of not recognising the person properly.
if this news is true it proves that in pakistan everyone is For Sale only the price matters.What a ridiculous and treacherous.So called torchbearer of anti establishment flag is now decided to prostrate himself infront of time-serving bufoons and charlatans like zardari and his ilk.You cannot believe anyone in pakistan. There is adage that “”Pakistan mainh sub chalta hai” .It is proved again
Dr shahid masood should not be joining PTV for little bit more money or authority. He is one of the most best anchor and Geo audience would definitely miss him. Moreover, his talent will be lost in PTV as no one watches PTV any more (not for news at least). Dr. Shahid will not be able to maintain his neutrailty when he would have to work under government’s censored channel. DONT GO DR. SHAHID. I DIDNT KNOW YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE AS WELL! ASK GEO TO RAISE YOUR PAY IF THATS WHAT YOU WANT.
Dr. Shahid’s new programme on PTV will be
SARKAAR KAY MUTABIQ….
NJ is next… let me guess
Head of APP
OR
Just foriegn tours will be enough for him….
“Dr. Shahid’s new programme on PTV will be
SARKAAR KAY MUTABIQ….”
No he will start a similar show like Nadia Khan show on PTV, with the coffee cup in hand with new shalwar qameez in every show.
just like TK came in and said ’55lakh baby!’ out of no where without ANY source at all. just fkin assumption, nothing more than that.
lets see what happens next. atleast wait for his programme tonight! why are you guys so irrational. the way you just start blaming and saying all kind of unwarranted stuff without any ground or logic is pathetic!
@power2rule: The sky is blue..!!! YOU KNOW the sky is blue.. but you want us to believe it is mauve! You and your rationality!!!!
2 plus 2 equals 4 don’t you know that? what the hell? when will people start talking some sense around here? if G equals Q then 2 – 2 plus 34 euqlas forty seven! and 47 plus 8 equals 55 !
HOW DARE YOU SAY I DON”T HAVE PAROOOF!!! ????
It is very simple! you just need to see it! PTV is the national TV station, they play many parrogurrams, they also broadcast news…
how can you deny all these truths? PTV also has the letters P, T and V in their name! Right in the name dude! How can you even deny that what I’m saying is NOT TRUE? english has 73 alphabets! more proof that english is the language spoken by English people! ipso facto, Musharraf is the best president we had and Mshahid Masood must be the avatar of the 2nd incarnation of kalki!
It’s not
computerrocket science people!!!I don’t know what is the problem if some body changes his job. Every one including us in this forum strive for a better pay and life.
Let us see if he will be biased in favour of Govt. while working with PTV.
well i shall be really happy if PPP can send Nusrat javed on foriegn tours and make him some mouth piece of Govt. atleast his veil of an independent Journalist will be revoved and a mean Piplioya Jiayala will appear from inside…
It is obvious that Shahid Masood has joined PTV for the sake of money. He was getting Rs 1.4m per month (as per former minister of state for information Tariq Azeem’s info revealed to media persons in a frank chat some time last year) from Geo Network. God knows how much he would be getting from PTV. But what is sure is that he has not been roped in to make PTV competitive. As a public service broadcasting, PTV has its role already cut out to serve a limited agenda. Weaning Dr Masood away from Geo would help the government silence a voice that ranlked them too much at times. Money talks!
Dr. SM will not be anchoring any more dears, he is the chairman and will control everything going on air from PTV network. Good way to shut him up…..
The post of PTV chairman has hitherto been ceremonial with the real powers wielded by the MD who is currently Yousuf Beg Mirza. It would be interesting to see how the two square up in the event of their trying to dictate the channel’s routine programming/policy
STOP SKETCHING GOD out of ordinary people in a country where most of the people have a PRICE.
U STUPID AWAM !!!
btw i am also part of this awam…..
Is GEO working on the web???
money has power..its ideal to be a hero of people and get 5-6 million per month as well…
well done SM..
Yousaf Baig Mirza is in hot waters because apparently Sherry Rehman hates him and I don’t blame her because this stupid man must have flirted with her before she became his minister and now its time for her to kick his butt. YBM is establishment’s man though he is related to Nwaz Sharif through wives but he was desperate to join PTV while in Geo and Mushy accepted him through some big ‘purchi’. Only if he could wait for a few more months.
@ wattoo
Chairman PTV will not be ceremonial post any more.
I heard Yousaf baig mirza is going back to GEO.
I would say despite all the reservations, we should give him a chance a little. So I suggest to hold your views tentatively for the time being. Everything would come in daylight in a month or two.
As an anchorperson, he wasn’t that bad as the this thread seems to suggest. Our anchorperson can’t be angel. The important question that we should ask ourself is can we maintain high moral standards as we are expecting or demanding from Shahid Masood?
If yes, it is good thing. Then we have every reason to be optimist about future of Pakistan. If not, we should try to met the standards we preach; otherwise we are munafiq too.
TO keep the mouth SHUT , MOGAMBO has given Dr. SHAHID MASOOD Compliments by offering him CHairmanship of PTV.
at least one will be minus from a panel of critics.(truth speakers)
Next will be NJ
MOGAMBO KHUS HUA
There is a point to note that the Gov. appointed a person who always talked against government and this should be appreciated.
Rgards,
MH
zanda bad…………………….
it is the same professionalism to which our politicians, bureacracy and all those who could sell them well in this market oriented economey are addicted, this brand of materialistically based professionalism knows no limits of so called self styled morality…………..
dr shahid is also no exception, whether he does not have a right to execute his lofty ideals through a biggest network of pakistan, he is not interested in money, his only priorty is to reach to the maximum viewers so that he would be better placed to dissiminate his views to those who donot have access to cable networks in pakistan……………..
be sure this is only bonafide act with an intent to broaden the spectrum of change and it has nothing to do with monetory adventages attached with this post, as he already has subatantial resources………
anyhow our nation has no option to realise that his intention is as honest as that of whole servants(politicians,bureacracy) of this powerful nations……..
so iam the first to submit his arguement….are u not????????
now you people MUST CALL it a ‘deal’ as well.
@ JavedSheikh
You not even worth to reply, and you don’t have any explaination what I wrote, you lack substance in your thinking. Need to read more mate !!!
@ Awais
“dr Sahab Maslla yeh hai kay aaap samjajhtay hein duniya ail puppets ka tamashaaa hai aur amrika bhitha oper say dorian hilata rehata hai while this is not true”
So, you don’t think America is not behaving like the policeman of the whole world and number of Neo-cons are running the world from Bangkok to Bogata with their puppets like Musharraf, Shah Fahad, Hussni Mubarak, Alvero Uribe and the list goes on……………….
And you believing what HH said, you having a laugh, you come up with any two supporter excluding you who could support HH and deny Dr. Shahid approach.
and the other thing which you of course you could never know, that USA is the only country which is been declared TERRORIST Country by INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, for its support CONTRA (Right wing ) forces in Nicaragua against a democratic elected government, and that’s as recent as June 1986. 11 Judges out of 15 ruled against USA and told her to pay US $ 12 billion reparations but USA never did.
America has attacked more than 100 countries directly or indirectly after the WWII.
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Regarding your sick comment about if Nuclear weapons were sold to the Mullas and they used it in Karachi, or Lahore.
What a preposterous argument, how old are you ? there were 68 suicide bomb blast in Pakistan in 2007 and thousands of people died.
There are people dying everday in Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sri Lanka, bcoz there is no JUSTICE, and no justice no peace.
Listen we have to talk to the extremists or fundamentalists or what ever you call it, there is no other way, TRY TO KNOW WHY THEY WANT TO KILL OTHERS. Its a universal law of nature every action creates equal and opposing REACTION.
At least India has learned after losing the life of their two elected Prime Ministers that people always take revenge when their beloved one’s are killed. I’m utterly shameful to see that you seemed haven’ learned anything from this knowledge flowing website. Alas
Why this Dinosaur PTV is not privatized,boggles the mind. Look at its role during Musharaf’s time. This Channel was hijacked and abused by the Fauji. This has always been the case. Now it is Zardari’s turn.
Who is footing the bill? of Course, bechari tax dainy waali Awam.
This PTV is a shemeful saga in our journalistic history. Get rid of it.
how credible is this news?
This was carried by yesterday’s Jang online edition as well
@ Ibnrazi
http://express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?newsID=1100416896&Date=20080531&Issue=NP_LHE
link to Jang and dailyTimes is already given in above post. i guess, u havnt bothered to read it.
Thanks @GM
this is one part…the other part is ‘has SM accepted?”
he is not a civil servant so he is not obliged to accept. Any news about that?
@ibnrazi
Jang ( his current employer group) is saying , official notofication has been issued, it is NOT saying that he has been offered.
BTW….wats surprising abt it?
wat u were expecting from dr. shahid?
@GM
nothing…just making sure…
so much is said/written these days – it is better to be sure..
thanks for your help…
geo has interrupted SM’s interview with Aijaz ul-Haq and is showing live coverage of the CJ’s event…
Aijaz was making some interesting comments about the working of the PML Q and the previous gov…
@TK
“HOW DARE YOU SAY I DON”T HAVE PAROOOF!!! ????”
i would love to see if you have ANY proof behind that statement
“55 lakh per month baby!! way to go!”
please enlighten me if there is ANY credible source based on which you made this statement and if there isnt any then stop making anymore pathetic and baseless comments. thanks
indeed 2 2 = 4 is no rocket science.
but 55lakh! either that IS a fact or it is NOT! there is no in between my friend. you just cannot distort facts.
?? ??? ??? ??? ???? ????? ??? ???? ???
Don’t waste your time, he has actually joined PPP not PTV.
Now he is going to sing praises of Mohtarma Shaheed Sahiba etc. etc.
He is also going to make sure we know that NRO stands for National Refinery of Oil products.
He is also going to make sure we know the real Zardari, the honest uncorrupted,visionary,champion of judges cause, a true defender of the constitution. Not the one we know, a corrupt,compromised,shady dealer wheeler, who has hijacked the PPP alongwith his Wali -Ahad.
These are his immediate areas of concern right now.
we will see. period.
If this is true. We’ll have to wait to see how he’s gonna do independent analyzes on PTV or PPTV (GPTV).
if he can’t, it would be really hard to trust any media person in the future.
It is good to listen that any competent person is going to be the chairman of PTV.
Surely he will work hard to improve this dead channel and to revive it.
BUT!!!
the Question is!!!
Will he remain NEUTRAL ????
Every one has a price. They are for sale, when the PRICE IS RIGHT. Zardari and Co: found Dr. Shahid Masood. Why these foreign trained doctors are so cheap shots.
Now he should stop Mere Mutabaq and Start Govt ke Mutabaq
Shows that everyone has a price. AZ found a way to silence Dr. SM.
Money Matters. First in ARY. more pay took him to GEO. Now more pay with more authorities then PTV. Now Meray mutabiq will be Musharaf Mutabiq
Shahid Masood yeah AWAM tumhara ahtasab karay gi….
Amazing
Fantastic if its true
how Govt can pit on its foot
bcz he is an idependent observer/analyst/jounalist
how he can support govt policy in PTV
Dr.Shahid plz dont sell your faith.
@ komal_malik
‘Every one has a price…………………………’
What is your price then ??????? care to answer (I’m sorry but you forced me ask this, i’m not trying to be rude. )
I can’t work out why we Pakitani’s are so cynical, always see the flip side, glass empty situation.
Read little about Dr. Shahid, if he had to get to his price, he could have get it long time ago, to be the SPIN DOCTOR of Musharraf Englightened moderation.
I’m not pleading for Dr. Shahid and neither I’m related to him, but again You don’t get respect but you have to earn it.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t criticize media, no one is above the law but you have to come up with some substance. Any one can read my replys to JavedSheikh and Awais in the same thread.
and see how PATHETIC and negative their understanding of the matter is.
I think Doc set a new record for going from ‘Hero’ to ‘Zero’…
Ofcourse shocking, but…
Anchors can come and go, we can have many SMs as long as jang-group is not sold, as long as there is competition in media.
He will fail if he takes govt. side. I dont think he is that silly.
i dont kow what is the fuss about?
Why cant he join PTV or any other channle?
this is his career and do you expect him to ask YOU before he decides
poor man hasnt done anything yet and everyone is like as if he has already started doing horrible things
why cant PTV have a reasinable chairman?
or you want ptv to be always achired by a nasty person?
let him work and if we see that he is not reasonable, then we can criticize him
PPP offered this position to him to defame him in the future. PPP would make the Ptv news network do some really big mistake and make the world beleive that it was done on the orders of Dr. Shahid masood as he was the chairman.
Aik tu hamari qaum har cheez beleive kar leti hay.
@goshi
Due to martial law rule of more than 40 years, dictatorial behavior is part of our genes. We want people to act by our desires. Anyone who disagree or hold different view is immediately labelled traitor, kafir, raw mosad CIA agent, or even ignorant.
It will require a serious effort to cleanse this attitude and bring tolerence and patience to listen in our society, if it existed!
Hi
It was shocking to Know that Dr shahid masood has become chairman PTV because the person ever criticize the channel .Now I want to ask to Dr shahid that should we expect that the first second and third headlines in PTV news will not always about president ,prime minister & other wazirs but it will some thing about the garib, mazloom Pakistani awam
He might be left with two common options to select from!!
As a learned researcher and bold anchor he has opted for best, .. Jeo aur Jene do …
Good Move, Dr.Shahid we need people like you to fix bureaucracy. All those crying about he sold his self have to stop looking everything through the eyes of hatred.
God Bless Pakistan.
is there any way to get hold of DR SM , I am puzzled , hecannot do what hehid , hemust be under lot of pressure to do that , if any one has an information as to why he quit GEO and went with PTV , vow.
“YOU TOO BRUTUS” ? ALAS
I agree, SM has let down a lot of people. Pakistani society needed him in Geo News at this juncture, more than ever before.
Dr. Shahid Masood has a right to get a better job! Do you know how much milk costs these days? he has to drink 2 glasses everyday, malaai wala.
Stop whining.. you people are just jealous of his progress…
@Kruman
Should SM ask you first before sending his resume for a job?
Please guys don’t be so jealous of Shaid Masood’s progrees to top job of PTV. He is a free person and mature enough to make his own decisions. Good luck to SM
No surprise about Shahid Masood–anybody who has met the man in person (like myself) knows that he is nothing but an opportunist.
Here are some facts about Shahid masood:
He got his UK nationality based on asylum (fake or real–who knows??);
he is a medical doctor and not a PH D as he lets on. He probably could not clear his residency so went into something else. Nothing wrong with that–except that all those books he has on his shelves–he’s probably never read a single one.
When I met him–long time ago–before he had his show–he argued with me that Jinnah was not Muslim but Parsi–i kid you not!! That’s how abysmal his knowledge is–and people thought he was patriotic–I never understood that.
Anyway, I suppose one day true colours are shown. I never saw him as anything other than another Bill O’Reily!
Very very strange news. But I am a big big supporter of Dr. Shahid. I am sure there must be a good explanation for this or either this news is not true. what he has done , no one has ever dared to do in the history of Pakistan. There’s truth in each & every word he says. A phoney or a hypocrite cannot incarnate himself into an angel this way. Dr. Shahid Masood is original & sincere, my heart & mind agree.
Uzma , 100 % agree with each and everything you said , but my concern and biggest fear is what if he was trapped by AZ just for him to come to
pakistan and may now be in some torture cell , who knows , there is a very dangerous game is on , far beyond our imagination .I think itis very
unfortunate and selfish on our part that we have completly forgotten
this hero , no one at this forum is bothered and every one is acting revolutionary, but not finding out if he is safe , if someone has seen him and to make sure not in any trouble , may be the admin can do this task , but i am very worried and our politicians are satan , can expect anything from ,they are not from this world , please initiate something and lets not focus on this that his salary is 50lks , he is a premium item, he is worth
millions and billions.
adm what is mean by moderation ?
adm what is the significance of this red star sign on the left ?
Dr Shahid Masood is a friend and my old college mate. He was very knowledgeable and good at discussions. He graduated from Sindh Medical College Karachi and then worked in surgical unit II JPMC karachi. I have no problem if he joins PTV. Whats wrong with that? We pakistanis have a problem. we make heros and zeros in seconds without knowing the person fully. we forget that No one is perfect in this world and we can’t dictate people we like what to do. They have their free will to do what they want. I trust shahid and wish him good luck in his endeavors.
@shahab
there is a term used for politicians when they jump ships, particularly when the join ruling party………’LOTA’
shouldnt this apply to Dr SM now….so can we call him Dr SM Lota?
shakir meghni, thanks for supporting my views. Its a shame that most of the pakistanis don’t have a good eye (pehchaan) for who is good & who is evil. Thats the main reason for where we r right now. Its such a shame that millions of people would go after shaitans like Altaf hussain, PPP but very few r with the right people like Imran Khan. “Khuda us qom ki halat nahi badalta jo khud apni halat na badalna chahti ho”
As long as this issue of dr. Shahid is concerned, we should better wait for him to come out himself and explain this weird news. I am sure there must be an explanation for this unbelievable news.
@ Malek,
there is a term used for politicians when they jump ships, particularly when the join ruling party………’LOTA’
So you think its the floor crossing if he joins state owned channel? So you think he was on opposition side and not a neutral anchor? If you think that way then whats the musharraf’s and his allies’ fault? They also think most anchors are anti government and not neutral.
There will be many who can successfully replace him. All that he was doing was revealing the flip flop of the political parties. Since all of us know how Pakistan is full of corrupt and dishonest politicians and army generals, every Tom, Dick and Harry can bring them to light.
i think dr will bring a positive change in ptv …we all will miss him but…ptv needs desparately improvement… coz in pak mostly ppl watch ptv not geo … n they cant read newspapers …so they hav to rely on ptv… so its good decesion taken by dr shahid…we all wish him alll the best…
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