I would say Daily S***! People like him are ruining the country. And that hussain haqqani is a paltoo janwar of America who does not say NO to americans, a loyal dog!

Daily Shit, no doubt about it.

Daily Bullsh!t!

Daily Times is upholding the principles of Democracy, Unbiased Journalism and Support for Secular Freedoms. Salman Taseer just happens to be its owners. The Daily Times staff are world class, foreign trained and highly qualified individuals. They are fighting the fight for secular democracy in Pakistan.

Please don’t spread this kind of mis-information about a patriotic institution of Pakistani Journalism. Actually, more Pakistani newspapers should be like The Daily Times!!! Maybe then we will be able to get out from under the thumb of the establishment.

Kashif Abbasi doesn’t understand Diplomacies and his logics are not pure. Did I mention 2 plus 2 is 4??

@TK
We people are very emotional hence lose our mind.
I agree what you said.

Though I consider it to be $hit, but I realize they have an audience and I am all for freedom of expression. They should have complete freedom to express their opinion. Let people be the judge.

Daily Times is upholding the principles of Democracy, Unbiased Journalism and Support for Secular Freedoms.

This matches the famous words uttered on this blog that “AZ is the leading the charge in the battle against the establishment.”

I take back what I said. Actually this trounces the words that “AZ is the leading the charge in the battle against the establishment.”

Now I am all for freedom of speech and expression, but these words…….. let me not say anything for fear of starting a useless battle.

I read all papers from Dawn, Jang to Express. Daily Times is the most biased and subjective paper in Pakistan. With a vengeance they go after anyone who dares to speak for an independent judiciary and independent foreign policy .

@Kruman: You’re welcome! hiyuk!

Daily Times journalists have a right to their opinions in a democracy, no? DT staff or Salman Taseer never physically attacked Supreme Court as Nawaz Sharif did so don’t judge them as if they are worst than NS. It seems if we like someone (NS in this instance) we forget their bigger sins but if we don’t like someone…how dare they expressed their opinion.

@TK

wat? hahahahahhahahah!! man you have cruel sense of irony.

“Maybe then we will be able to get out from under the thumb of the establishment. ”

hahahhahahahahha!! lolz!! oh my belly!! hahhhahahah!!
means ” Jang rahay or aman bhi ho”

I thought you should read the editorial they wrote! Your blah blah institution has harshly and maliciously targeted media persons and almost named them traitors. who would do this shameless act of yellow journalism rather than your sweet pants newspaper? Sir kashif Abbasi do know more about the manners of diplomacy rather than a corrupt govt officer -cum- NROized politician. Believe me, he better know about diplomacy!
Freedom of expression doesn’t means you start name calling and labeling other person as traitors and some security risk to the country as Mullahs do!
Kissing A** of Mush, ST,AZ is apart different from journalism sir! It really is different!

@yahya
wakeup dude! you just had a bad dream! You are comparing the newspaper of the buddy who has remained and is very close Mush who done such a marvelous job of scrutinizing the higher judiciary of Pakistan and arresting all top judiciary with NS? out of Mind? Drink some cold water. it would really help you

Below is from the DT link given above. Its not all bad;

Second Editorial: Curse of a bad law

Another boy has been sentenced to death and fine for blasphemy by a sessions court in Sialkot. The verdict came as the court was surrounded by zealots who want people immolated to their fanaticism. Like dozens of cases in the past, the judge had to hand out the maximum punishment to save his own life. Had the 2004 procedural amendment been observed which says that the case could be registered only after clearance from a senior police official? No.

The judge is not to blame. He could have been killed if he had freed the accused. This is justice through intimidation, and intimidation works right up to the High Court. The youth thus condemned will now rot on death row and become useless for his country, if not dangerous. According to pattern, he will be found innocent after seven or eight years by the Supreme Court. No blasphemer has been executed so far. But innocent people who go through the ordeal are hardly able to find normal footing in life again. *

This is what the editorial said- Quote “But when matters are in dispute between elected parties and in parliament, it is the duty of the media to remain impartial in order to allow the people to make their own judgements”.Quote Ends.

Who is Mr Editor (whoever he or she is) to say that it is the DUTY of media. Medias must be free, not controlled. Editors like you are disgrace to the Freedom of Press.

Typical example of journalism of a country under dictatoship which always try to pester the rulers.

Everyone has right freedom of expression but people like Salman Taseer has no right to give us a lecture on Democracy, Patriotism, rule of law, unbiased journalism and objectivity, impartiality, etc. he is playing the double role, he was care taker minister when BB had lost her life in a tragic incident but he was silent, now he has become loyal worker, and jiala of PPP and does salute to BB’s struggle for democracy, hype of hypocrisy, how he can give us lecture on principles? Man like this, who has no character, has no right to teach us-Pakistani nation. Moreover, if he and his editorial team believe in objectivity /impartiality, then they must give a lesson to their TV channel Business Plus host, Jasmeen Manzoor, she has a very clear and obvious prejudice/ bias against PML-N and deals with the representatives of PML-N in a very cruel, unethical, rough and ill-manner way. She always shouts on guests and does not give him a chance to complete their reply or argument. She interrupts continuously and distracts the attention of the speaker as well as audience. Her facial expressions are also so disgusting. She plays a typical UN parh Laraka Woman role rather than a TV show host/ anchor or journalist. She always biased in her comments and questions which reflect her impartiality/objectivity very well. She behaves PPP Leaders and their reps with pure fluttery, other wise she does not behaves like an impartial journalist/ anchor person, even like a civilized woman. So Mr Salman Taseer and his fellows should take notice and teach her on the subject” impartial/objective journalism” which they are offering free of cost to other journalists/ TV anchors. Charity begins at home.

By raising this issues, pkpolitics has done exactly what it SHOULDN’T have done i.e. give importance / regard to non-sense people of daily times. The best thing should have been to ignore this thing altogether. Now, people who have never logged on to daily times website in their lives, would have checked out the daily times article. Resulting in high traffic and false conclusion on part of daily times people that they are being read by vast majority of people.
The fact that its being run by Salman Taseer is enough to know about the caliber of this new paper. Leave this issue and get some thing better to discuss.

Daily Times is not only Daily Sh!t, it is also a thief. It stole the pictures of a famous Pakistani photographer Fayyaz Ahmad and is refusing to pay any compensation.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/pakistaniphotographers/discuss/72157604365705638/

Down With Taseer /Sethiand Crappy Daily Times…

Pakistan is now in a battle like stage where two forces are coming against each other.One force is wishes of people of Pakistan that are anti US, now believe in rule of law, and seriously want o get rid of typical ruling mafia.Other force is establishment that is surely pro US,very strong and organised as compare to people’s power and in an open way are being supported by western forces.Daily times has now joins this team after its owner is announced as governor of Punjab.
This battle is producing exreme friction on national platforms ensuing instablity and economical crises.

I asked myself if I would be happy to live in a country fair for a few including myself and a life of misery for the rest as logically offered by the today’s powerful. I swear I heard a cry ‘Shame on you’.

When Najam Saithi arrested in previous Nawaz Sharif Government, there was a direct call from US State Department to release immediately and this is on the record.
Actually, combination of Najam Saithi and Salman Taseer is very effective compound of US state funded journalist and MI6(UK intelligence agency) agent. They are supporting US and Mush agenda regard of Judiciary.
dam shiittttt on these liberal extremist.
Actually we are suffering from relegious and liberal extremist. Donon es mulk ko dabo dain ge…..

Daily Times (Salman Taseer and Najam Sathi) are fully capable and deserve to speak at this tone. The reason is before 18th Feb. 2008, they had only Musharraf at their back but now additionally they have got support of 160 million people in the shape of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari.

160 Million people should think whether they gave Mr. Zardari such a mandate or not?

Best reply to this shittttt newspaper…
http://jang.com.pk/jang/jun2008-daily/25-06-2008/col6.htm

i will burn 1000 copies of Daily Times soon i get back to my country just to prove that how ordinary people dislike Mushraf and Zardari ….and there is no any capibality of Najam Shati and this F>U>>ing sumalan taseer ….We hate such type of persons

GA Hamid mir, & Talat hussain, Mushtaq minhas, Nusrat javed, Kashif abbasi.( I dont know wat 2 say about Dr. Shahid masood…….)
Waisay yarron No body watches or reads their( Salan taseer & co) shit then Y R we bringing them to limelight.
I remember 1 month back one of our freind ( i think londonstonian) wrote about ahmed qureshi who i had never heard off B4 that. This only serves their henious motives!!!!!!

Guys come on think up some ways you can help these anchors, lawyers, pkpolitics, overseas Pakistanis Nazwaz Sharif, Javed Hashmi, Imran Khan, Aitezaz Ahsan, Mehmood Achakzai, Ex Servicemen, Civil society and ordinary people putting up a fight against imperialist agenda to subjugate us on the pretext of terror.

The journalistic credentials of Najam Sethi and Ejaz Haider are in tatters. There was a time when people used to look forward to Najam Sethi’s analysis, but now he has become so predictable in his low-quality defence of Pervez Musharraf that people are not bothered.

Salman Taseer may be paying him well, but he has irreparably damaged his journalistic credibility.

We could at least use some civil language. There are better ways to criticising DT’s coverage.

Daily Times has a viewpoint of its own but the problem, in my opinion is not that they have it, but it’s their hypocritical stance. They themselves are clearly biased in favour of certain measures but criticise others for their leanings.

The media in every developed country espouses certain ideals. Take the UK, Germany, France, USA…don’t we have examples of the NYT, New Yorker Magazine endorsing certain presidential candidates? Don’t we see the Guardian and the Independent push for more centrist, leftist policies?

A certain tilt one way is inevitable. It’s the reporting which has to remain factual. Opinion needs to be separate but you can’t strip it completely of any sort of a bias.

@Rehan

Rehan, even though we cant completely protect freedom of the media or protect journalists from harm we can keep trying to highlight the dangers or threats toward them and condemn any effort to stifle them. Remember Pakistan is a country where at least 22 journalists have been killed for their work, many have been beaten and of course we know they have been banned and threatened. So vigilance is very critical. But This will also mean allowing those journalists we do not trust or agree with to openly keep doing what they do. In that case, readers will vote whether they choose to subscribe to those papers, watch those programs or read those articles. But let me assure you there are many of us who do monitor these issues and express concern to media watch dogs etc immediately when something looks threatening or a journalist is threatened overtly or covertly, subtley as is being done in DT article or Naji’s piece labelling these journalists as broadcast terrorists. Please contact the Committee to Protect Journalists or Reporters without Borders if you ever feel that something is worth worrying about. They will investigate it first and then sound the alarm. thank you.

I must say Daily Shit!

the Daily Times attack on TV anchors and Naji types are following the Fox News, neo-con blue print of character assasination and labelling this or that journalist as jihadis or terrorists to discredit them. Even Haqqani’s tactics to show Kashif Abbasi as “weak on condemning terrrorism” is really laughable in a country where this present govt is already deeply unpopular and the level of awareness is growing exponentially. Unlike the Bush years where Bush counted on the word “terror” to make Americans cower and condemn anything which the Bushies and Fox News attacked and where the population is deeply ignorant! In all their infinite wisdom they havent quite figured out that their effort at attack via spin is backfiring statement by statement, interview by interview, article by article. They desperately need PR help!

Every paper has bias. DT’s is anti-Nawaz, thanks to N Sethi’s ‘chitroll’ by Nawaz’s goons. DT’s anti-Nawaz bias automatically makes it pro-MQM, pro-Mushie and pro-AZ, and anti-Lawyers…

@Tomcat111

When was this chitroll of N Sethi??
As per Mush’s book, In the line of fire, N Sethi was taken in protective custody by army on his orders when federal govt wanted to make him accountable for the BS he had uttered in a visit to India (just like Altaf Kalia did).

@GM

I don’t know and don’t care what Mushie says, but I do remember Sethi’s account how he was dragged out of bed and physically abused. According to him it was the Army/ISI who got him released. Whether his ‘chitroll’ was justified or not, probably it was; but here I recounted it to explain why they are what they are.

Just FYI, I am not on good books of DT either. : )

Salaman Taseer was certainly beaten up in Nawaz’s period on account of him participating in PPP agitations. This I heard on Geo as well and I think by N Sethi himself. However both N Sethi and Taseer invited Nawaz on the inauguration of one of their media ventures (can’t remember which one) so on the surface all three tried to show business as usual but it could be that Taseer held some bad blood, quite justifiably if Nawaz’s goons beat him up, and may be some of what DT writes now is as a result.

Problem is Nawaz wanted to beat up every one in his days including the Chief Justice of SC. This did not help I think.

TK your very argument defies the logic that you are supporting. You are saying it is ok for daily times to say that Kashif Abbasi and Hamid Mir are wrong but not ok for us to criticize Daily times?. What kind of twisted freedom of speech is this?. Daily times propogates the extreme left wing ideology and it happens to be the one propogated by Musharraf and his buddy Salman Taseer. The vast majority of Pakistanis are moderates and conservatives and not liberal extremists that Daily Times thinks they are.

@pkelections

not sure exactly what tk was arguing for…but my understanding was/is…that Kashif abassi (and i like the guy) was ill prepared and not sophitiscated enough to deal with the likes of haqqani…(despicable as i think he is) a master of the art of rhetoric. (but which does not qualify him as likable by default.)

kshif abassi was not grilling the ‘manufactured politicians’…he was dealing with one who has honed his argumentative skills…logic…sharpened his claws…over the years…and in the west.

i still cant find any sympathy for the way haqqani ridiculed kashif abassi…but i am more angry at kashif…for not being prepared. to deal with a b*itch with a brain that can spin at will…(read the Oriely of FOXistan).

@kafka

If I would have been in Kashif’s place, regardless of level of my preparation, I would have allowed Haqqani to rudely intrupt me time and again. If Haqqani was bent on proving he is a jerk then why not let him dig his grave even deeply? Though I agree Kashif seemed to be little intimidated.

we all are with u KASHIF!As far as ZABA TASEER sahab is concern,nobody reads his bull shit!

Sorry its ZABAN TASEEER!