“Don’t try to become a journalist. It’s a dangerous profession in Pakistan,” my late father said this to me three decades ago when I was still a college student
Who regulates the regulators?
Truth is the first casualty of a war, and it never gets buried
Watching too much TV can have adverse psychological and emotional affects
Syed Irfan Ashraf won the presitigous Mirror Award for an article written about Malala Yousafzai in Pique in November 2012. He writes about his experience of getting the award and reflects on the ...
Having embraced technology early, PTI and PML-N enjoy an enviable position today thanks to savvy young teams
From email to ecommerce to ejournalism? In Pakistan for the most part, digital media is used for activism; we seem to have skipped past journalism in the evolutionary process
Where is the electronic media headed? Why is its content compromised? Will ratings always pip substance? Pique talks to media persons for an insight
Why do TV anchors hop from one channel to another? Switching loyalty is deemed par for the course, especially when paychecks are fatter but they don’t get called lotas —unlike the politicos they ...
The media deludes itself with power and reach but is easily manipulated by power centres to advance their agendas
Foreign journalists have a way with words — and these are not usually weighed well — when it comes to reporting Pakistan
Will the Supreme Court be able to save the media from itself? The need of the hour is a broad based National Media Commission