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Monthly Archives: September 2018

Analysis: Challenges of freeing state-run media

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ON a sultry June afternoon during the early 1980s, all hell broke loose at the PTV headquarters. Brig Salik, press secretary to then president Ziaul Haq, was frantically looking for Agha Nasir, the channel’s managing director. Since he was not available, Salik told the second most senior official that the missing MD of PTV should […]


Give us three months to perform, Imran asks media

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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday asked the media to give the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government time to settle in before being judged for its actions. “Give us three months before criticising our performance,” the prime minister said while talking to a select group of senior journalists at the Prime Minister House. The prime minister […]