Press
freedom, Commercial interests and Stigmas
From
May 1949 to May 2014
A case of the death of a Lhore based oldest & popular Newspaper
Civil & Military Gazette
It is a stigma
1.
For the State of Pakistan
2.
For the Government of Liaqat Ali Khan
3.
For more than 15 editors of Media Groups who
signed a joint editorial against C&MG to fulfilled their commercial interest.
Out of 15 media groups Mian Iftiqar u din of Pakistan Times had to face same fate during 1960s while Jang is ready to face now. Is it high time for media owners, Government, Political parties and journalists to rethink about it. Ironically the incident was happened in the month of May 65 years back yet it is quoted againest Pakistan in every new research paper extensively. are we ready to learn lesson from it? Cannot we avoid such stigmas? just rethink for once
List of Newspapers
No
|
Newspaper
|
Editor
|
No
|
Newspaper
|
Editor
|
01
|
DAWN
|
Altaf Hussain
|
09
|
Naw e Waqat
|
Majid Nizami
|
02
|
Dawn (Gujrati)
|
Noor Muhammad Jamal Noor Maimon
|
10
|
Inqalab
|
Mehar & Salik
|
03
|
Dawn (Urdu)
|
Fazal Ahmad Sadique
|
11
|
Al Waheed (Sindhi)
|
Abdul Ghafor Siastai
|
04
|
Jang
|
Mir Khalil ur Rahman
|
12
|
Zamindar
|
Akhtar Ali Khan
|
05
|
Anjam
|
Ommar Farooq
|
13
|
Safina
|
Waqar Ubmalvi
|
06
|
Sindh Observor
|
Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi
|
14
|
Ghalib
|
Mir Noor Muhammad
|
07
|
Pakistan Times
|
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
|
15
|
Maghrabi Pakistan
|
Khalil Ahmad
|
08
|
Imroz*
|
Chiragh Hassan Hasrat
|
16
|
Jadeed Nizam
|
Amin ud din Sahrai
|
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Hasrat resisted it for 24 hours yet next day at
May 7, 1949 he had to publish it.
Instead of that West Punjab Union of
Journalists (later PUJ) and Sindh Union of Journalists (later Karachi union of
Journalists) never endorsed it. The
conflict was due to published news in C & MG yet next day newspaper had apologized
at same pages. But it was not an issue but some competitor media owners wanted
to kill CMG at all cost. For this they used patriotism as usual.
The story is attached as written by Zamir
Niazi in his famous book Press in Chains. Read it
URDU TEXT OF ZAMIR NIAZI BOOK ABOUR CMG
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