Posted on: 31-01-08 12:27:29
The work Paki is offensive to some Pakistanis. Please don't use that. I have deleted you post, please re-post again.
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Fair enough BL, I will take your word.
Coming to the post, there are tv channels in India that show desi political satire. Really funny. Saw some fo them last month.
BTW, why pakistani comedians have to come to India to perform? Oh, I forgot. No jokes allowed in pakistan as the media is remote controlled by the men in uniform.
DIO
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Originally posted by fahad
The media is quiet free in Pakistan and in India which claims to be a democratic state, you won't find even a single channel where people are allowed to joke about Indian government.
In Pakistan their are more than 20 channels and we have many discussion channels
"Geo TV, the country's largest and perhaps most popular news channel, was the last one to be allowed to go back on air.
But the restored Geo News transmissions are without their leading news anchors.
Hamid Mir is one of them. "As far as Pakistani media is concerned we are still under emergency rule," says Mr Mir.
"All the news anchors, including myself, who are still banned from doing their programmes, are those who questioned Gen Musharraf and that is why we are still not being allowed to go on air.
"We have not been banned by the state of Pakistan but just one individual whose name is General Musharraf. "We have not been banned by the state of Pakistan but just one individual whose name is General Musharraf. If anyone believes media is free here they must be fooling themselves," Mr Mir argues.
Read in full http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7222820.stm
