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Massaging the official message

Mushahid Hussain is just doing his job. He stands out because he is a former journalist defending a government that is hounding the press. Pakistan's Information Minister Mushahid

By Khaled Ahmed

/ 31 May 1999

The news of a kidnapping

The house of Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin, the couple who run The Friday Times newsweekly out of Lahore, was invaded on 8 May by men claiming to be from

By Rehan Ansari

/ 31 May 1999

Move over BTV

Bangladeshis may just get to see real television. Privately run. When Ekushey Television (ETV) begins transmission on 16 December 1999, it will be the first private sector terrestrial TV station

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 31 May 1999

Bhutan.net

Better late than never. Bhutan has finally lifted its ban on television and the Internet. On 2 June, the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) begins its television network, while Druknet goes

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1999

JANG’S WAR

That a conflict was simmering between the Nawaz Sharif government and the Jang Group of Newspapers, became known to die Pakistani public only after Front-page announcements in two of the

By Zaigham Khan

/ 28 Feb 1999

Theatre of the people

SAFDAR HASHMI (1954-1989) There are still ways to produce art and social commentary without having to be routed through the media monopolised by Big Business. On 1 January 1999, theatre

By Vijay Prashad

/ 31 Dec 1998

BUGLE CALL

For the past two months the Sri Lankan government, using the state media, has been trying to pull off the impossible. They have been projecting the terrible losses suffered by

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Nov 1998

Poorest Poor

It took the worst floods of the century to bring Bangladesh back into the spotlight of the international media. The sight of so much water just couldn´t be ignored,

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

Deconstructing Gita

Gita Danuwar (above) was sold in Bombay by a cousin. After nine years, she is back in her home village near Kathmandu. Although she has HIV, Gita hoes her terrace

By John Frederick

/ 30 Sep 1998

Good ink for bad blood

The vernacular idiom expresses emotion far better than it does reason. Indian and Pakistani media were state-dominated to begin with. Since most of the population is not yet literate, it

By Khaled Ahmed

/ 31 Jul 1998

Television for conflict resolution

Afdhel Aziz proposes a television programme which may help relieve the ethnic tension in Sri Lanka. The apathy among many Sri Lankans towards the country´s ethnic conflict is obvious.

By Afdhel Aziz

/ 31 Mar 1998

Zamir Niazi: “They want a Pravda”

Zamir in Urdu means conscience, and since his hook Press in Chains (Karachi Press Club, 1986) came out, Zamir Niazi has been the voice of conscience of the Pakistani press,

By Hasan Zaidi

/ 28 Feb 1998