Nehal Fatima Arbab سندھی میڈیامزاحمت، چلینجزاورآپشنز۔1 Eng

Nehal Fatima Arbab

2K18/MC/116

BS III

سندھی میڈیامزاحمت، چلینجزاورآپشنز۔۔۔۔1

Sindhi Media Resistance, Challenges and Options

By Sohail Sangi

 Nowadays electronic media (tv channels) are out of a source in many cities of Sindh. Because of this, the attitude of people is the same as mainstream media carried with the people of Sindh and issues of Sindh 3 decades ago. Recent the reason behind the boycott was a freedom March for Nationalist party called Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, which took place in the country's media city Karachi on 23rd March, but it didn't succeed in making a place for mainstream media.

These national activists wanted to create the whole world and the state of Pakistan to the Sindh's deprivations and issues to denounce, but due to some pressure, it was not possible because of some reason. The large section of Sindh confessed the mainstream media "irresponsible" and biased, in which comments on social media also played a vital role and boycotted these channels unannounced.

In the east Pakistan when the lava of deprivation was on cooking. The mainstream was playing the same role as before, the past newspapers in the library don't even show a single sign of any movement going on in somewhere in the past or people were abhorrence to use the slogans for sperate Homeland, the example of this attitude is also can be seen in Baluchistan nowadays and they've maintained this attitude with them, but if we talk about Sindh the situation is quite different here because the Sindhi language is available here in written form. The existence of the dynamic media in the Sindhi language is also available in three genres audio, video, and text. Including social media activism. It is worth mentioning that in Sindh even this era the electronic media and used for entertainment and the text media is used for information.

According to the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, there are currently 23 Sindhi newspapers published. According to the report of Pakistan peace studies, there is a total of 142 regular newspapers in Pakistan. It means 16% of the newspapers are in the Sindhi language. Including rural and urban populations of Sindh in total similarly makes a 24% population of Pakistan.

Although in Sindh Urdu, Sindh and English are the major languages in Sindh, containing published newspapers. Urdu media is considered conservative, centralist, storytelling, reactionary, and sensational, while English elite class media is considered to be more liberal and professional.

Distortion

The political expression of the feeling of Sindh has come in front of the one unit, but journalism couldn't be its manifestation. During the time of formation of one-unit, Sindhi newspapers wrote protest article but later due to strict martial law restrictions, they could not play an effective role. The literature and writers took their place. Literature protest was continued through literary magazines and secret pamphlets.

In the late 1950s, the leader of Muslim league Qazi Muhammad Akbar used to buy daily Ibrat from renowned writer Muhammad Usman deploy on political purposes. Under his leadership, the Ibrat was first Sindhi newspapers which were established on a commercial basis.

In the late 1960s after the formation of Pakistan's people's party, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto bought daily halal Pakistan and published it as a party organ. After the success in elections, the newspaper was moved from Hyderabad to Karachi. After the innovation in its technology Prominent Sindhi intellectual Siraj-ul-HaqMemon was been appointed as the editor.

Radical religious expressions took place in the 1960s and 1970s through Jamat e Islami newspapers. Jamat e Islami was publishing its magazines but there was no space for newspapers in Sindh. Although the Mehran newspaper which was published under the patronage of Pirpagara, after the death of its editor Sardar Ali shah, the newspaper become somewhat liberal.

Ibrat, Aftab, halal Pakistan with nationalist and progressive thinking continue going on. Halal Pakistan despite being the supporter of government in its policy and thinking, was still a supporter of progressive thinking. Later, its color starts to fade.

In the 1980s, the Restoration of Democracy Movement (MRD) created a movement in every lane and village in Sindh. All jails were full of a political activist but the coverage of mainstream media of this movement was limited just in Karachi. The Sindhi newspaper failed to fulfill the activity of concern and arose in Sindh.

The Sindhi media took a turning point when political activists started joining journalism. These people belong to the leftist movements and their ideological and political trend and their struggle was against the establishment or upper classes. Thus, new Sindhi journalism took birth. Therefore, the progressive activists of Sindh launched a public voice.

This is a proud movement for me to become the founder of this resistance journalism. While Faqir Muhammad Lashari, Anwar Pirzado, BadrAbro, Abdul Rehman Naqash also played their role in resistance journalism. Moreover, some government agencies and their affiliates are not ready to recognize the role of this resistance journalism and journalists.

In the following footsteps of the resistance journalism, Jago (Editor Faqir Muhammad Lashari), Pukar (Editor BadrAbro), Kavish (Editor Ali Qazi), Barsat (Editor Sheikh Ayaz and Yusuf Shaheen) were also released. The Awamiawaz's management showed opportunism and financial greed which cause them to lose their position. While 'kavish' polished this idea, after finishing it became the biggest Sindhi newspaper.

The National Financial Awards and water distribution and construction of Kala Bagh Dam were national issues for the mainstream media while the Sindhi media drew a line and separated themselves, from the 1990s to 2000 these issues got matured extent so that the people of Sindh were ready to die. This political awareness was given to them by Sindhi media.

In the 1990s, for the spread of thinking of establishment Al Wahid newspaper was launched. For this, it was very common in Sindh that this is the newspaper for agencies, but in spite of access to all financial resources and information centers, this newspaper could not run. Likewise, other non-Sindhi organizations also experimented to publish Sindhi newspapers, in which almost many have to suffer from financial losses due to a clear difference in the mood and thinking of the owners and readers.

A major media group in Punjab to pave the way for Kala Bagh dam. They launched a newspaper in Sindhi, but it did not get that response and when General Musharraf launched an advertising campaign for the construction of the Kala Bagh Dam, the young people of the Sindhi newspaper Resigned.

Nehal Fatima Arbab

2K18/MC/116

BS III

Urdu to English translation assignment

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