Muhammad Anas Akram Nose of censorship 1540 words

Muhammad Anas Akram

Roll no : 2k18/MC/85

Class : BS part III

  urdu to English

سینسر شپ کی ناک

Nowadays ,In TV Channels’ news often includes such scenes in which it is shown that since hard work of years it has been stood art of building of masterpiece is demolished with the help of explosive material. Sometimes it is presented the filming of demolition of any long bridge and sometimes it is being removed the marks of ancient beautiful building art declaring it useless.

Carved by the hands of same generation like theirs which have ruthlessly demolished such masterpiece buildings and their goals is to construct the old buildings with modern and safe constructions, but after seeing the years of hard work are being demolished in few seconds their hearts would be hurt too who have no relation with these buildings .

Imagine for a second that  after striving you created something so it was spoiled or thrown in dustbinso what feelings in your heart. Of course, in response to this question, the  thoughts that come to your mind, as a journalist, I have exactly the same feelings when I write and send a column after hours or days of sweating, anxiously waiting. And the next day I happily pick up the newspaper to review whether the words I had created with my pen are smelling like flowers or are spiking someone like a spikes.

My all warm hearted turns into frustration when I don't see my column anywhere on the editorial pages. The first word that comes to mind right now is ;censorship;.

In the same way, when I get important news including documents, from  my important 'sources', so I reach the office in the form of a 'scoop'. Excitedly, I let my boss (Bureau Chief) know the details of the breaking news, waving a bunch of documents in front of him to show the importance of the news  but all  happiness was turned to camphor by one sentence.  when he said that all is fine but sorry dear  we can’t broadcast this news. After a long discussion with him  when I leaves his room in a heavy heart and defeated state, the same word  sticks in my mind 'censorship'.

Sometimes in the form of written answers to questions in a Senate or National Assembly session, during  discussion on a resolution, adjournment motion or notice of attention, important information on certain topics is obtained which the journalist tries to take on his own. Even if the shoes get worn, it will not be possible to meet them.  when filing a news story based on such rare information or preparing a script for a report, it is heartwarming to feel that this sensitive information will tremble when it would be telecasted. However, the first shock comes when the news or The copy editor who edits the script raises his hand first to get the approval of the boss (Bureau Chief)  whether this information will be included in the news or report or not.

When try is made to get the approval of the boss for the script of a filed news or report, the same  Instructions are given only to mention that information in this regarding was also provided to the House. So with depressed face to this whispered news or report gives over voice the tough staggers many times because the same word  is stuck in the mind'censorship'.

Social media has become more popular than traditional media, the rise of  insanity of sharing information through tweets to create links with 'informed' journalists and important personalities  on social media as well. With this,  craze to increase the number of followers, so this is an attempt to show what cannot be shown on traditional media by handing it over to the waves of social media to see the ratings in Pakistan and worldwide.

Therefore on tweeter for your statement it is restricted to 140 words only, you can use all your journalistic skills to write such a short story and press the tweet option and read your own writing and quickly see its likes and re-tweets. I am praising myself  in the heart that suddenly  the Whatsapp number of the boss flashing on the screen in my mobile phone is illegible because after saying hello the other side is instructing me in the same weird tone that  immediately delete your tweet.

I try to discuss by offering many rationalizations but on the other hand in a commanding  tone the phone is hanged up saying do what is said. In obedience with the command of  'Nokari Ki Te Nakhra Ki' I delete that tweet like a misspelled letter.

It is has been belonging to journalism for more than two decades . Rattling  Freedom of the journalism and freedom of expression have always been on my mind, saying that my freedom is limited to where the other's nose starts. For years in the beloved country, this rattle has been crushed under heavy boots and nowadays it has become a situation that others have pulled their 'noses' and made it so long that it is far to write in discipline for Establishment and related matters.  Even if  write the word space creature, then this nose appears. spot light on the 'indiscriminate' justice of the judiciary, then that nose comes like a wall .

Swindling in the general election has also gone under the same nose, so the word plutonomic has also been banned. Criticism of the Prime Minister and the government has become a means of teasing others. Writing about banned organizations was like pulling hair out of one's nose. ‘Harza Sarai’ about religious parties is also equivalent to offend with the nose of another. Now no words written about religion here. There are a lot of fatwas against you for hurting another 's nose.

In the name of protecting human rights NGOs have also become so strong  that now there is not the slightest criticism that liberals start  to hit their noses. Writing about advertising mafias like Bahria Town has become to cut off the nose, and writing about  this censorship has come under the category of insolence  which the  administration organizations is tolerant to tell that this nose of censorship has hurdle in freedom of expression.

In this atmosphere of nagging, after the advice of  family, relatives and friends that now only your columns and news are missed but don't disappear by yourself, all my emphasis on freedom of expression is only on these poor politicians walks who have no nose at all.

Satisfactory treatment of Pakistani media

However, no Pakistani newspaper or news channel is tired of mentioning the sacrifices of the armed forces and paramilitary forces in the war on terror.

Every channel or newspaper agrees with voice of the state on India, Kashmir and Afghanistan.

No Urdu channel or newspaper covers Pashtoon Protection Movement rallies or Manzoor Pashtoon statements because sensitive State agencies believe that PTM's news coverage is not  in the national interest. However, publicity of condemnation is in the national interest.

The national media also refrains from covering the occasional protest camps of the families of the missing persons because this topic is also on the sensitive list.

Before, on the day of election and after the July general election what was heard in this regard from a number of national and international observers and political parties were also avoided by the media's coverage of the debate because the stains are good and that's how the journey of democracy should be continued.

The electronic and print media do not think differently from the state in the context of

Pak-China relations and the CPEC nor  they cover the critical reporting of the Western media on China's internal political and national issues and contradictions.

Except Afghanistan and Bangladesh, including Saudi Arabiathe statement of the media and the State is more or less the same for other brotherly Muslim countries.

No textbook is taught in any private or public educational institution or madrassa in Pakistan that encourages constructive criticsdiscussions or questions on the comparison of religions, ideology of Pakistan, history, basic State institutions and parliament etc in resulting logic and knowledge making occur.

About all country wide and foreign NGOs suspected of being directly or indirectly harmful for national and State interests are either paralyzed or allowed to operate under new strict  rule and regulations.

The governing body of the Al-Hamra Arts Council in the capital of largest province Punjab, has been disbanded for apparently failing to curb laxity under the guise of stage dramas, and the provincial information minister has ordered that he personally direct dramas in the future. The script will be read and approved so that the national cultural values ​​can be properly protected.

Three weeks ago some speakers at the Al-Hamra Arts Council's Faiz Mela, were barred from attending because they feared they would mislead the younger generation. The media also refrained from making this news.

In the last ten years the attitude of the media towards the Imran government as compared to that of the Zardari and Nawaz Sharif governments is still generally friendly or semi-critical. The media is also aware of where the old-fashioned open criticism of the current government can reach and what the potential economic and editorial results of such arbitrariness could be for the media itself.