Journeys to Democracy

Articles

• Petition: STOP the violence against Pakistan’s religious communities

  7 February, by beenasarwar
  Pakistan needs rule of law and de-politicisation of police. Those engaging criminal offences like hate speech, threats and incitement to violence, and vigilante violence must be charged, tried, prosecuted, and punished. We will not allow people in public office or public positions, like (...)
  

• Citizens for Free and Responsible Media, Pakistan: Summary of media consumer activism

  4 February, by beenasarwar
   Summary of media consumer activism in Pakistan from Citizens for Free and Responsible Media, Pakistan, Saturday February 4, 2012: We are a group of activists, academics, lawyers and journalists, citizens from all walks of life — essentially media consumers serving as an independent platform to (...)
  

• Citizens’ response: Thank you Mr Siddiqi…

  28 January, by beenasarwar
  From: Dr Kamran Iqbal (cc’d to signatories below) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 To: Zafar Siddiqi Dear Mr Siddiqi, Thank you for your prompt and courageous response. We appreciate the moral courage of SAMAA TV’s stance. We hope you will continue to lead by example in developing a code of ethics and (...)
  

• Media ethics: Samaa TV’s response to citizens’ feedback and Maya Khan’s refusal to apologise

  28 January, by beenasarwar
  Following the citizens’ campaign expressing outrage at a Samaa TV morning show’s intrusive and unethical programming, and the host  Maya Khan’s refusal to apologise unconditionally, the channel is taking her show off the air and terminating her contract. BELOW: CEO Samaa TV Zafar Siddiqi’s letter (...)
  

• Citizens’ response to Zafar Siddiqi, President CNBC Pakistan & CEO Samaa TV

  27 January, by beenasarwar
  On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:05 AM, <Zafar Siddiq> wrote: Dear All I have travelled to Khi to look at this matter and yesterday Maya apologised in her program for this. I can assure this will never happen again. Samaa is a progressive channel. There are certain other directives that have (...)
  

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