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Pathetic Express

I don't watch Kamran Shahid 's show. I really don't. That's why I had to be told by another Pyala that I should probably see what happened on his show on Express TV yesterday. Having now seen the show in its entirety, I can safely say that my initial position was well-founded. Here was a show on Balochistan , whose dire situation is, thankfully, finally receiving some space in the media that has long shut its eyes hoping uncomfortable truths would all just go away. Recently there have been a few eloquent and blood-curdling pieces in the print media as well as no-nonsense coverage on some television channels. Some of the best coverage in the mainstream print media has been in Dawn : Here is veteran journalist I. A. Rehman today on " Balochistan's Agony ", here is writer Mohammed Hanif 's heart-rending front-page piece on February 11 on " The Baloch Who Is Not Missing ", and here is Dawn 's strong editorial on the same subject a day after...

Line of the Day

From an oped about the treatment meted out to Veena Malik  on Kamran Shahid 's tabloidy Front Line programme on Express , titled " Our Obsession With the Inane " by Kamila Hyat in The News today: "Of course a Pakistani man cavorting with a Hindu man would not have raised so much as an eyebrow." If for some reason, you wonder what we're getting at, read the line again. For all we know, this may not be a typo and she may have a point... Have been meaning to do a post on this whole issue but have been truly busy and fear it may already be too late. Meanwhile, DJ Shahrukh has come up with probably the best summarization of the saga and definitely the funniest: