Supreme Court of Pakistan, is set to release a secret list of journalists and media organizations that purportedly received payments from the federal government in the name of national security.

A two-judge bench is currently examining the issue of payments purportedly made from secret funds by the Information Ministry. The bench observed that Rs 300 million was apparently given to a private TV channel and that one file alone revealed expenses of Rs 187 million.

The apex court is expected to make a final decision in this regard on April 17, when the government will submit a revised list of “covert expenses” after excluding only a few details for security reasons.

ISLAMABAD – The broadcast of Capital TV, a private TV channel owned by former FIA deputy director general Ahmed Riaz Sheikh, is being taken off air across the country when a guest on a live talk show insulted Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani.

Sources told Me on condition of anonymity that the decision was taken after a guest on a talk show hosted by prominent journalist Ejaz Haider insulted the Army chief using foul language live on air. The guests on the show were Marvi Sirmed and Amad Khalid, a former personal secretary to Zaid Hamid.

“The PML-N is a party in which the cardinal virtue to move forward is sycophancy. Since I was deficient in mastering this art, I couldn’t get along with it,” Amir told a local newspaper.

The PML-N preferred to go for Maj (r) Tahir Iqbal, nephew and son-in-law of Lt Gen (r) Abdul Majeed Malik, for NA-60 Chakwal that Ayaz Amir had won in 2008 with a huge margin.

“I was a strange ideological fellow traveler of the PML-N. I left the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in 1998 and came to the PML-N’s rescue in 2002 when it had no other candidate in Chakwal,” Ayaz Amir said. “We put a very strong fight in Talagang.”

The PML-N people, he said, liked his columns during the Pervez Musharraf’s era but held the totally opposite view about them over the last five years.

Ayaz Amir stood down from the contest as he withdrew his nomination papers on Thursday. However, his panel would support the PTI candidates in Chakwal.

He feels that at least four seats of Chakwal and Talagang, including NA-60, NA-61, Punjab Assembly’s PP-20 and PP-22, would be seriously affected due to the influence of his panel in the area.

Ayaz Amir was critical of the top PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and believed that he was instrumental in refusal of ticket to him.

When Ayaz Amir’s nomination papers were recently rejected by the Chakwal returning officer (later restored by an election tribunal), none from the PML-N even bothered to call him in order to express solidarity with him. He was at a vast distance from his party for quite some time and was feeling uneasy with it.

Tahir Iqbal, who has been granted the PML-N ticket, had switched to the PML-Q after the October 1999 military coup of Pervez Musharraf when the PML-N was in hot waters. He also served as a minister of state during that era. Majeed Malik was a leading member of the kitchen cabinet of Nawaz Sharif when the latter was the prime minister for two times. But when the chips were down, he too said goodbye to him.

However, the former general revived his contacts with the Sharif brothers recently with the objective of getting the PML-N ticket for Tahir Iqbal in which he succeeded.A PML-N leader said that the party decided to select Tahir Iqbal in view of his better prospects of victory, which were much better than those of Ayaz Amir

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Shahid Afridi has Joined PMLN.Shahid Afridi says he just went to meet Nawaz Sharif; has not joined his party.

Shahid Afridi, commonly known as ‘Boom Boom Afridi’, join Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), Express News reported on Sunday.
Afridi met with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, but conflicting media reports emerged about whether he would be joining the party, with some channels announcing the cricketer had joined the PML-N after the meeting.
On Saturday, another celebrity, ‘One Pound Fish’ man Shahid Nazir had joined the PML-N. Nazir said that he had joined politics for the poor people of the country and for the poor state of education.

Sana Bucha fired By Dunya News Management..Multiple sources in HR Department of Dunya TV Lahore informed that the top management of TV channel has directed to terminate the job contract of TV anchor Sana Bucha with immediate effect.
Earlier, she has resigned from Geo TV over differences with the channel’s management on the hiring of Dr. Liaqat Hussain. Before this, she also has faced plagiarism allegations by the media circles.

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