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I was never very fond of former DawnNews morning show and current TVOne anchor Faisal Qureshi - he currently hosts the show Bang-e-Dara...

Apparently some erstwhile DawnNews staffers are mighty miffed that we haven't given the sudden closure of Express 24/7 early this mor...

I have been meaning to write about a clip from the DawnNews show Kab Ta k titled ' Hasool-e-Insaaf Ki Jidojehd ' (The Struggle fo...

Unlike MSS, or at least partly unlike MSS, I truly was at a loss for words about the the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Af...

Since we Pakistanis often suffer simultaneously from the twin demons of megalomania and paranoia - verily we are better than everyone else a...

First of all, on behalf of all of us, I wish to offer an apology for the lack of updates in the last 10 days. Call it a combination of too m...

Don't you just hate it when the facade of liberal, sensible urbane-ness you have so carefully constructed over years and years comes cra...

Aaj TV is going through quite a shake-up after the news of Talat Hussain 's notice to leave the struggling channel. This past Saturday,...

There is such a frenetic game of musical chairs going on in the media these days that we can hardly keep up. So we decided to just do a shor...

We have confirmed that Aaj TV 's Executive Director News and Current Affairs, and host of his own show, Syed Talat Hussain , has put in ...

Unbelievable. Un-effing-believable! I really have no polite words for this. I saw this flash on DawnNews and thought I must have been dr...

Uh oh. Nothing like a former bandmate's vote of confidence. Salman Ahmed: sufi reverie broken (Photo: The Independent) Here is Juno...

Sigh. I was alerted to this wonderful (I use the term in a tongue-in-cheek way of course) bit of television on DawnNews ' Bolna Zaroori ...

Had the real-life DawnNews saga been a prime-time soap opera on that troubled channel, its ratings would at least have registered some mil...