Deaf & Blind Media of Pakistan towards Terrorism of West

Case of Marwa al-Sherbini who was killed in German Court

I produced series of mails that I am attaching here so that people can see how media of Pakistan closed their eyes and ears over the issue of Muslim woman who became a victim to Western barbaric terrorism. Readers can see public carbon copy of my actual emails that I also posted on public group youth-today@yahoogroups.com. You can join the group at following address

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/youth-today

In above group you can find views of different members of community on the disappointing role of media of Pakistan, you are also encouraged to have your say on the group youth-today.

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Following is my first email that I produced to GEO TV team.

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From: M. Atif Qureshi
Subject: News for GEO TV
To: muhammad.bilal@geo.tv, asfar.raza@geo.tv, shaheen.raza@geo.tv, ahmad.faraz@geo.tv, saquib.malik@geo.tv, shakeel.ahmad@geo.tv, mhassan.rizvi@geo.tv, naseer.rana@geo.tv, samar.kidwai@geo.tv, shadab.faisal@geo.tv, sajeer.abbas@geo.tv, lucas.peter@janggroup.com.pk, m.ghouse@janggroup.com.pk, syndication@geo.tv, tahseen.shaukat@geo.tv
Cc: "youth today"
Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 3:55 PM

Asalamualikum,

My name is Muhammad Atif Qureshi, I am studying in KAIST under scholarship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSmIcEbCHQ

I would like to share news with Geo TV so that Geo TV can cover this news of terrorism and brutality conducted in Germany against a Muslim woman. Geo is well known in covering much of the news like when flogging of girl took place , it was Geo that aired the news for several hours and even launched a campaign for days. Geo TV was the leading channel that took different point of views from different thinkers, politicians and parties of Pakistan. Geo TV interviewed TTP leadership's stance over flogging. That converage by GEO TV on flogging issue was a campaign for its viewers in the form of message and opening eyes.

The issue , that I put forward to GEO, is of more importance than flogging in swat as this time the bruatility is done by literate society of West against an innocent Muslim woman worse than flogging. Flogging as was percieved to viewers was conducted by less educated people, but the crime that I put forward is conducted by the world's finest educated people of west. I expect GEO TV to cover this news as a campaign , as an eye openner that ranges more than couple of days as they did in flogging issue, I expect GEO TV to get views of thinkers, politicans and parties just like they get views on flogging issue. I expect GEO TV to conduct interviews from officials from Germany (and if they refuse to appear before GEO TV , then GEO TV should inform its audience about their refusal).

I expect GEO TV will play its leading role in covering this news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSmIcEbCHQ

Please Note: I am forwarding my mail to many of my contacts for transparency and your prompt converage of news.

I have taken the list of GEO TV contacts from http://www.geo.tv/geopages/contactus.htm

Best Regards,
Nationality: Pakistani
Muhammad Atif Qureshi,
Research Associate,

Database and Multimedia Lab,

Scholar of Masters by Research,
KAIST University,
Daejeon, South Korea.

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Since I got no response from GEO TV and neither did they cover the news, so I decided to mail them one more time with BBC world news link , my second mail to GEO TV could be found as follows

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From: M. Atif Qureshi
Subject: Re: [youth-today] News for GEO TV
To: muhammad.bilal@geo.tv, asfar.raza@geo.tv, shaheen.raza@geo.tv, ahmad.faraz@geo.tv, saquib.malik@geo.tv, shakeel.ahmad@geo.tv, mhassan.rizvi@geo.tv, naseer.rana@geo.tv, samar.kidwai@geo.tv, shadab.faisal@geo.tv, sajeer.abbas@geo.tv, lucas.peter@janggroup.com.pk, m.ghouse@janggroup.com.pk, syndication@geo.tv, tahseen.shaukat@geo.tv, "owais rizvi"
Cc: "youth today"
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 7:40 AM

Asalamualikum, I am also forwarding GEO TV a link of BBC website for this news. So that GEO can see BBC have already taken lead over them in covering this news, and its time for GEO TV to look into the affairs where Muslim Women suffered brutality in the name of western terrorism. Its matter of women rights and protection of the honor of Muslim women and more important than flogging issue. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8136500.stm People all over the world are waiting for your response GEO TV. Best Regards, Muhammad Atif Qureshi, Research Associate, Database and Multimedia Lab, Scholar of Masters by Research, KAIST University, Daejeon, South Korea.

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Even after my second mail , I could not get any attention of GEO TV in covering this news hence I decided to mail this news to every possible visual media I knew(including GEO Team as third reminder)

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From: M. Atif Qureshi
Subject: Re: [youth-today] News for GEO TV
To: info@aag.tv, aajcomments@aaj.tv, info@apna.tv, waseem.siddiqui@arynews.tv, webmaster@arynews.tv, sales@arydigital.tv, marketing@atv.com.pk, webmaster@avtkhyber.tv, presentation@avtkhyber.tv, samina.ansari@businessplus.tv, faraz.gillani@businessplus.tv, muhammad.ali@businessplus.tv, webmaster@channel-5.tv, hellousm@gmail.com, gm.circ@dawn.com, editor@dawn.com, ebrweekly@dawn.com, city@dawn.com, bahzad.alam@dawn.com, info@dunyatv.tv, info.isb@express.com.pk, info.mux@express.com.pk, infor.ryk@express.com.pk, info.khi@express.com.pk, info.fsb@express.com.pk, infor.suk@express.com.pk, info.lhe@express.com.pk, info.grw@express.com.pk, info.qta@express.com.pk, info.pew@express.com.pk, info.sgd@express.com.pk, info.hyd@express.com.pk, info@hum.tv, feedback@indus.tv, programs@indus.tv, info@indus.tv, info@nvibe.tv, gmnews@ptv.com.pk, drkhalidzia@ptv.com.pk, feedback@rohi.pk, info@royaltelevision.tv, habib.akram@samaa.tv, Ihtasham.haque@samaa.tv, imtiaz.shah@samaa.tv, zahoor.baloch@samaa.tv, shaukat.khattak@samaa.tv, amir.jahangir@samaa.tv, amir.zia@samaa.tv, fahd.haroon@samaa.tv, fatima.akhtar@samaa.tv, mahim.maher@samaa.tv, info@sindhtvnews.net, contact@sindhtvnews.net, feedback@waseb.tv, info@waseb.tv, suggesion@waseb.tv, executiveproducer@zamtelevision.com
Cc: "youth today" , muhammad.bilal@geo.tv, asfar.raza@geo.tv, shaheen.raza@geo.tv, ahmad.faraz@geo.tv, saquib.malik@geo.tv, shakeel.ahmad@geo.tv, mhassan.rizvi@geo.tv, naseer.rana@geo.tv, samar.kidwai@geo.tv, shadab.faisal@geo.tv, sajeer.abbas@geo.tv, lucas.peter@janggroup.com.pk, m.ghouse@janggroup.com.pk, syndication@geo.tv, tahseen.shaukat@geo.tv, ""owais rizvi"
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 6:01 PM

Asalamualikum, I have mailed twice to GEO TV about this issue, but so far I have not received any response from their side. Its really disappointing that issue related to the honor of Muslim woman seems to be ignored by a highly prestigious channel of Pakistan. I hope someone would rectify and do the needful. I am forwarding this news to every media I came across to, hoping that someone from media of Pakistan would do the required job in hands and represent the voice of Muslim Ummah, humanity and justice. This news is extremely important in terms of exposing form of terrorism from West so that justice could prevail and secondly its also related to security of Muslims in future if one plans to visit countries' guilty of terrorism and barbaric way of treating Muslims. News Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8136500.stm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSmIcEbCHQ List of address were prepared from following links http://www.aag.tv/Static/contactus.aspx http://www.aaj.tv/contact.html http://www.apna.tv/news/text_pages.asp?item=contactt http://www.thearynews.com/english/contact1.asp http://www.atv.com.pk/contact.php http://www.atv.com.pk/contact.php http://www.avtkhyber.com/website/contact.htm http://www.businessplus.tv/Advertisment/Contactus.aspx http://www.channel-5.tv/ContactUs.aspx http://www.dawnnews.tv/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/others/contact-us http://www.dunyanews.tv/newsite/main_category.php?catid=cu http://www.expressnews.tv/contact.html http://www.hum.tv/contact/contact.html http://www.indusnews.tv/ Contact US button http://www.nvibe.tv/newsite/script/contact.html http://news.ptv.com.pk/contact.asp http://www.rohi.pk/form.htm http://www.royaltelevision.tv/ Contact US button http://www.samaa.tv/ContactUs.aspx http://www.sindhtvnews.net/contact/index.htm http://www.zamtelevision.com/company-profile.htm TV Channels: AAG,AAJ,APNA CHANNEL,ARY NEWS,ATV,AVT Khyber TV,Business Plus,Dawn News TV and Newspaper, Express News TV and Newspaper,HUM TV,Indus News,nVibe TV, PTV NEWS,ROHI TV,Samaa TV, Sindh News,Waseb TV Best Regards, Muhammad Atif Qureshi, Research Associate, Database and Multimedia Lab, Scholar of Masters by Research, KAIST University, Daejeon, South Korea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even after this mail to total visual media of Pakistan , I got only single response from a news channel, that had courtesy to put it on their website(SAMAA TV) at http://www.samaa.tv/News10296-Egypt_mourns_headscarf_martyr_.aspx and the response from SAMAA TV is as follows ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mahim Maher Subject: RE: [SPAM] Re: [youth-today] News for GEO TV To: "M. Atif Qureshi" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 10:22 PM Thank you for alerting us to the news. I monitor the wires and this one failed to show. Nonetheless, we are putting it up on our website. Mahim Maher Website Editor News JAAG BROADCASTING SYSTEM PVT. LTD 16th Floor, Techno City Corporate Tower, Altaf Hussain Road, Off I.I. Chundrigar Road, Karachi-7400, Pakistan  mahim.maher@samaa.tv UAN: +92-21-111-772-622  +92 333 237 88 73 +92-21-2637 180 FAX: +92-21-2270 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since by this time, I felt much disappointed with the role of total visual media of Pakistan so I decided to mail to print media and columnists whom I could find and following is my mail to print media of Pakistan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: M. Atif Qureshi Subject: Re: [youth-today] News for GEO TV To: aaj@geo.tv, draqkhan786@gmail.com, agha.masood@janggroup.com.pk, abid.tehami@janggroup.com.pk, athar.shah@janggroup.com.pk, attaul.haq@janggroup.com.pk, azeem.sarwar@janggroup.com.pk, mukhtar.butt@janggroup.com.pk, f-hameed@hotmail.com, mirza.akhtiyar@janggroup.com.pk, safdarmah@yahoo.com, shahid.hasan@janggroup.com.pk, shahid.masood@janggroup.com.pk, amir.liaquat@janggroup.com.pk, fatima.bhutto@janggroup.com.pk, hamid.mir@janggroup.com.pk, hassanhansi@hotmail.com, irfan.siddiqi@janggroup.com.pk, ikram.sehgal@janggroup.com.pk, irshad.ahmed@janggroup.com.pk, jevan.khan@janggroup.com.pk, jamiluddin.aali@janggroup.com.pk, jabbarmirza@gmail.com, A.khalidAnsari@hotmail.com, khalid.masood@janggroup.com.pk, khurshid.nadeem@janggroup.com.pk, kishwar.nahid@janggroup.com.pk, ahmed.sabzwari@janggroup.com.pk, ishtiaq.baig@janggroup.com.pk, munno.bhai@janggroup.com.pk, mushtaq.qureshi@janggroup.com.pk, legharinazir@yahoo.com, nayyar.zaidi@janggroup.com.pk, nafislaw@cyber.net.pk, nazir.naji@janggroup.com.pk, saleem.yazdani@janggroup.com.pk, rauf.kalasra@janggroup.com.pk, sarwat.jamal@janggroup.com.pk, sikandar.lodhi@geo.tv, abbasather@express.com.pk, zahedahina@hotmail.com, ejazkhan289@hotmail.com, tahir.mir@expressnews.tv, latifch910@yahoo.com, zangar100@gmail.com, tanveer.qaisar@express.com.pk, abdulqhasan@hotmail.com, javedch100@gmail.com, hamidakhtar@hotmail.com, ayazkhan@express.com.pk, capitaltalk@geo.tv, orya_m@yahoo.com, ansar.abbasi@hotmail.com, arfc@cyber.net.pk, info@UrduPoint.com, hipakistan.info@gmail.com, hipakistan.shakeel@gmail.com, editor@pakistantimes.net, editor.newsroom@pakistantimes.net, editor@paktribune.com, admin@ummat.net, editorial@dailytimes.com.pk, letters@dailytimes.com.pk, romanahsan@gmail.com, web@thepost.com.pk, webmaster@pakistanpapers.com, info@dailyjinnah.com, info@jasarat.com, info@ummatpublication.com, ammar_nni@yahoo.com, aq@ahmedquraishi.com, ed.khi@br-mail.com, smnews80@hotmail.com, mails@dailymailnews.com, najamsethi@thefridaytimes.com, jugnumohsin@thefridaytimes.com, ejazhaider@thefridaytimes.com, features@thefridaytimes.com, editor@apakistannews.com, observer@pakobserver.net, editorial@aajkal.com.pk, info@aajkal.com.pk, alakhbar@dsl.net.pk, akhbards@wol.net.pk, alakhbar@pes.comsats.net.pk, alakhbar@yahoo.com, info@dailyasas.com.pk, azkaar@cyber.net.pk, azkaar@dailyazkaar.com.pk, juraat@juraat.com, admin@khabrain.com, webmaster@statesman.com.pk, khanjilani@hotmail.com, khalid_lodhi@hotmail.co.uk, editor@dailytaqat.com Cc: "youth today" Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 10:41 AM Asalamualikum, I have mailed this news thrice to GEO TV people till now, and also mailed this news to all possible channels of Pakistan but I have got only single response (SAMAA TV), its really disappointing to see the role of media of Pakistan, they have not even covered the news and its now really a matter of shame. This news required a full scale coverage that must have lasted for days as I wrote to GEO TV(You can find that conversation below). I am forwarding this message to different print media and columnist whose email addresses I have collected from different places with the hope that they raise this news and also the disappointing role of Pakistan Visual media. This is link of news that I have sent to all possible kinds of media of Pakistan. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8136500.stm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSmIcEbCHQ Its really disappointing that Pakistani Visual media closed their eyes and ears on this news and I only got one response from visual media Samaa TV but they also put this news on their web only(If I am not mistaken) http://www.samaa.tv/News10296-Egypt_mourns_headscarf_martyr_.aspx Best Regards, Muhammad Atif Qureshi, Research Associate, Database and Multimedia Lab, Scholar of Masters by Research, KAIST University, Daejeon, South Korea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, I am bringing this fact and disappointing role of media of Pakistan in front of people, so that people can decide whether it is only disappointment, shame of honor, crimine or betrayal. What is left from here is to hear voices from print media against such deafening reponse of visual media of Pakistan. The point that circulates in my mind is "Where is the land that I knew as Land of Pure" Following are the links that covered this news Internationally (I cannot understand Arabic but emotion talks here) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJe6Zv7hiK0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGJRuMr4-c0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuaeC4E_Wpw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tISMrr98hxc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMlctdQYKQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvgJcaBqfFY http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/20097612424648553.html http://www.google.com.pk/search?hl=en&q=Egypt+mourns+%27headscarf+martyr%27&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=