Areeba Roshan Pakistani Media On foot step of China model

Areeba Roshan

 2k18/MC/31 BS-III

 Newspaper and Magazine Production

Translation: Urdu to English

پاکستان بھی سعودی اور چینی ماڈل پر عمل پیرا؟

عمل پیرا؟

طلعت حسین

Your opinion is independent until you are far from the details, you have restrictions on your facts, your research considered as correct, but make sure to watch out the result which you have derived from your research. This undemocratic and systematic privacy crosses all boundaries and on the record incidents, statements, recorded facts become no go areas.

That is why those people are not allowed to do press conferences who werepressurize to change their political commitments, and nor they were allowed to make any statements who were lock up in jail on inconsiderable excuses in these type of incidents verbal actions are also not allowed. Reporting which is based on truth cover up by a shuttlecock burqa to hide the truth. Censorship is not just one and a half but it includes dozens of topics and it would be waste of time to discuss it here.

This growing aggressiveness over facts and real events is supported by those troy horses that have been sowed in the media industry from the start and whose job is to fall behind those who have courage to disagree with the government  on their decisions based on facts (I am not taking anyone’s name?As a journalist, in the age of censorship this our new habit to do multi sides journalism).

Government and organization ambassador no longer react to the warnings and gossips instead of them their dogs do their job they shredtheir jaws and spread their claws and run behind those who tries to speak the truth. Me and my family, young children we all have become the target itself of media studios who act like a stuntman whose job is to ruin the person’s image. I’ve tried to complain about these propagandas but no one listens my complain. When we tried to contact FIA so we get to know that they have no power to find the source who starts to flash flood this trash.

Obviously, this hate brigade and their hired media gorillas fulfill their owner’s wishes. Their owners not only hire them but also ask them to do shameful and sinful acts and their hired gorillas do it for them.

Now if we talk about media institutions censorships which main example is that it is elastic. At the time of emergencies and difficulties it reaches at the top (Emergencies and crisis which they created by their own) and it fades when nothing else is happening. Although the most threatening part of this censorship is its power and its impacts it starts by extracting the editorial power and its reaches on peak when its start giving the warnings to terminate their job.

Most of the time its your own fellow worker who are trying to survivesomehow they managed to enforce themselves into the system and whoever tries to come across them they have to face loneliness in their office then. Its pillars extend from social media to personal life to professional work but the most sad and aching thing is this that the owners are also don’t try to control it.

But the truth is that the owners (or some people) transfer all the burden on the journalists. When they are being told that their business now will be stop, their families will be followed, and the work which they have been doing since ages will be destroyed and the media empires will be deployed for the honest thugs, therefore its difficult to fight a war against such things.

Shutdown of channels, interference in newspaper transfer, numbering of channels on cable networks, ETC they are some common strategies of wrist bending. But the more dangerous are those inner mechanism which can damage the financial media institutions.

The wars which I have fought on editorial basis have absolutely no concern with the institution of editorial policies but it was about the pressure on the media owners and this same pressure extended to the reporting and to the research.

In normal situations and in such tough conditions the courts and parliament parties are the source for support and justice. But sadly these doors are not in the direction of justice they only open with one side key: if you are with us, or if you are not with us. You have to become their puppet to get a justice for yourself.

By being and acting as a neutral and then finding a place for legal analysis is a type of sin which have no forgiveness. And well the new model for media’s freedom gives preference to entertainment and to the light topics news. On one level the Saudi and Chinese type media controls talks are happening openly just like it was not acting up since the beginning. The only hope left in this dark situation is that people already know everything what is being censored whether its not a completedetails but still people have idea that what is going on behind the curtains.

This environment of fear, this environment of injustice is spread all over around the people and that time is not so far when the truth will be openly exposed and the secret of Pakistan will be exposed completely for that reason the research for cover up the facts are still continues.

بلوچستانمیں ’سرکاریاشتہاراتبطورسنسرشپکے

ہتھیار ‘

In BBC Urdu series you will get to see on daily basis media and social media censorship issues in Pakistan and any media field related person will be going to tell us the issues and problems with the censorship issue. Read today Quetta RoznamaIntekhab’s editor Anwar Sajidis opinion.

In the situation of the country the owners of the newspaper and other workers are pressedself censorship on themselves so that they not have to face security issues. Security issue from everywhere. For example there are war lords, there is extremism as well, there is gang war as well, there are institutions as well. So just to stay safe from all this they are running their work in a scared manner.

The pressure is from everywhere, the non-state institutions wants that the publish news should be of their choice because they are competitors of each other. So the institution doesn’t want that their newsshould publish they want that only government’s views should be publish. So this type of pressure is going on and its going since 2006.

Here news agencies are contacted through satellite phones and they are warned, informed about news, and share their views with them. Through these news agencies their views reach out to the newspaper. But just from when the national action plan has come and the court given their decisions regarding this. So then the newspaper are not publishing the views of people who are extremist.

So now only one sided, means only official’s point of views is keep hidden, so you can now think that the Balochistan’s Newspaper is the official newspaper. Means provincial and federal government activities have just become their bend out. Apart from this they publish international news. Now the news in the newspaper is no more according to the hopes of people.

The pressure of states comes in the form of advertisements. Balochistan is not a commercial or business place. Here the newspaper’s only source of income is government advertisements. So that’s why (newspaper owners and editors) are oblige to do government advertisements because they are depend on these advertisements because of these advertisements these (newspaper) lives depends. So thelife of these newspaper is in the hands of government.

In Balochistan the social development has been stopped. Journalism is also a part of this social development. So instead of its development, its moving backwards. There is no concept of independence.

There are so many ways to deal with this pressure and censorship. In Pakistan so many times the undemocratic periods have come. In that time these governments have learned a way and that is government advertisements. They use government advertisements as a weapon for censorship.

Balochistan is an undeveloped province and there is no business and industries. So the governments use government advertisement as a weapon and they publish and restrict the news of their choice.

The problem is that in this situation because of one sided news theyinvestigate against extremist journalist. Majority of journalists have been killed in Balochistan. Till now no one has investigated that who was behind these murders. The journalists here are helpless and the they are working on newspapers in the environment of fear.

'منطقیسوچرکھنادراصلسازشہے'

War Lords most of the time has stopped the delivering of newspapers. He did not allow the buses for transport newspapers and tells agents to stop the distribution of the newspapers. Non state institutions also boycott the newspapers which means that in their presence the newspaper can’t be deliver in that areas. And the same situation is of state institutions. The viewpoint was same of both state and non-state institution regarding newspapers, means warnings, bullying and threats.

In the time period of Zia-Ul-Haq as martial law was imposed so the censorship was imposed as well. And whatever it is now it is unannounced. Now work is done through advices. An instruction or order come through which newspapers make their policies. This also called self censorship which newspapers apply on themselves. This way is a little bit different then martial law.

The journalism in the Balochistan is collectively taking its last breath. Means it is in ICU. And doctors are not trying to save it which is government. Government and its institutions are not playing a role to save and encourage the journalism. They have no other role instead of delivering government advertisements.

In this situation the Balochistan newspapers have no hopes for people. And the people are also unaware to the state conditions (regarding whom the news is published) People are unaware from its state, from its institutions and from journalism as well and are in a very deep disappointment.