Is Geo TV a CNN affiliate or is it the psy-ops wing

of the CIA?

Just because it is in Urdu doesn’t make it true! Just because it was broadcast by a
Pakistani channel doesn’t make it right! Just because it shows the Pakistani flag
doesn’t mean it it loyal to Pakistan or patriotic.

By Moin Ansari

http://rupeenews.com

QUESTIONS GEO CANNOT ANSWER: Why does Geo collude with foreign media? Why does it
focus on creating chaos and general discontent? Why does it act like an instrument of an political
party? Why does Geo behave like the arm of a foreign force? Why did Geo deliberately broadcast
false bad news about the economy when the stock market was booming? What hand did Geo play in
scaring the foreign investors away from Pakistan? Why did Geo repeat the false news about the
growth figures which led to the crash of the stock market? Why does Geo show wrong Pakistani
maps? Why does Geo almost never cover the insurgencies in India? Why is Geo so infatuated with
Anti-Pakistan Bollywood films? Why is Geo bent upon creating a “Indianization” of Pakistan? Why
does Geo pay so much attention to Bollywood? Why does Geo show dead bodies? Is this all part of a
psy-op or is it part of an agenda? Mr. Husain Haqqani of the Hudson institute is on the payroll of
JINSA and AIPAC (public information posted on Rupee News) is a known neocon with his own
agenda. His wife Ms. Isphani is involved with VOA and Geo pursuing the same Neocon agenda.

A company is known by the company it keeps. Geo certainty deals with some “colorful” characters.
Its genesis, consultants, and affiliations leave much to be desired.

We have attempted to put together a thesis and a case on why Geo has exacerbated the conditions in
Pakistan and why it is biased. The article discusses the origins of Geo and its connections with shady
operatives. We present the actual proof of the affiliates of Geo. The information on the CIA psy-ops
discusses how the CIA operates in other countries.

“There is a hidden hand in this” Sher Bukhsh Mazari

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE

The bottom line of this article is that Geo has connived with shady characters who are associated
with foreign powers and have been up up to no good. Geo’s track record in showing dead bodies, and
repeating nonsense on the economy, and providing place and comfort to the enemy. These facts are
described in detail with actual quites, references and pointers.

1) Questions that Geo cannot answer

2) General discussion of CIA ops

3) CIA is active in Pakistan. NY Times report

4) CIA Dirty Tricks Department

5) Details on efforts to destabilize Pakistan

6) Strange happenings at Geo that cannot be explained

7) Geo origins and the people who helped in starting Geo. Geo’s connections to some ver un savory
characters

8, Geo links with David Hazinski a known Neocon with deep links to Neocon organizaitons that have
spoken up against Pakistan

9) Discussion of Weinberger’s his beliefs and his association with Geo and Mr. Hazinski

10) Discussion of the beliefs of Mr. Hazinski’s

11) Detailed discussion of the Media’s role in destabilizing Pakistan

12) Appendices, Farah Ispahani role in VOA and Geo, Resume of Mr. Hazinski

Additional Research:
The Plan To Topple Pakistan
The Great Game Continues

The Great Game Revisited

Video: Secrets of the CIA
Codename Operation Enduring Turmoil Exposed! - Neocon Plans for Pakistan and rest of the World

AMERICAN MEDIA WITH GEO AND ARY UNLEASHES ANTI-PAKISTAN

CAMPAIGN ON CUE:

CIA PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSY-OP) FROM THE

MANUAL: The declassified documents are old, but it gives us a glimpse into what can
happen. New techniques are more sophisticated.

(The implements of psychological warfare are: open propaganda, subversion, special operations
(sabotage, guerrilla warfare, espionage), political and cultural pressures, economic pressures. The
principal effects sought are persuasion, sympathy, terrorization, confusion, division and physical
interference. These operations, ancient in origin, are modernly employed, notably by Italy, Germany,
the Soviet Union and other principal powers. The programs are planned more or less centrally in all
nations, but executed by a variety of agencies. Memorandum on Intelligence for Psychological
Warfare, by General John Magruder, Feb. 1943 )

THE COVERT US INTERVENTION IN PAKISTAN IS CONFIRMED BY THE NY TIMES

OF JAN 6th, 2008

“At the White House and the Pentagon, officials see an opportunity in the changing power structure
for the Americans to advocate for the expanded authority in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country.
“After years of focusing on Afghanistan, we think the extremists now see a chance for the big prize -
creating chaos in Pakistan itself,” one senior official said.

The new options for expanded covert operations include loosening restrictions on the C.I.A. to
strike selected targets in Pakistan, in some cases using intelligence provided by Pakistani sources,
officials said. Most counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan have been conducted by the C.I.A.; in
Afghanistan, where military operations are under way, including some with NATO forces, the
military can take the lead.

The legal status would not change if the administration decided to act more aggressively. However,
if the C.I.A. were given broader authority, it could call for help from the military or deputize some
forces of the Special Operations Command to act under the authority of the agency. NY Times Jan.
6th, 2007

In the 1980s, President Zia ul Haq was blown up in a military plane and Benazir
Bhutto became the Prime Minister. However she was fired from her job for corruption.

ISLAMABAD: Was Benazir Bhutto’s assassination part of a larger international conspiracy to

destabilise and de-nuclearise Pakistan? This is the question that boggles many minds even in the
government circles.
Although, the government has fixed the responsibility on Baitullah Mehsud and al-Qaeda on the
basis of a telephonic conversation reportedly monitored by intelligence agencies, some government
officials really smell a rat.

“It is not important to see who is pulling the trigger, also don’t bother much about the hired
assassin. What is really important is to reach the hand that pulled the strings,” an official source
said, believing that foreign factor (not al-Qaeda) could not be ruled out in this high-profile
assassination that has badly shaken Pakistan.

The Pakistan People’s Party and spokesmen of Baitullah Mehsud and al-Qaeda had already
rejected the interior ministry’s assertion, which had been further contradicted by certain news
reports that claimed that the slain leader was in contact with Mehsud.

A senior journalist, Hamid Mir, even confirmed this fact in his column in Jang that appeared on
last Monday. He also revealed the startling fact he was told by Benazir Bhutto before her death
that she was informed by the Americans that Washington did not want the restoration of deposed
chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar, when contacted, although did not rule out international
dimension to Benazir’s killing but he was more convinced that it was a heinous plot hatched inside
Pakistan. Ansar Abbasi in The News

OLD CIA DIRTY TRICKS DEPT. & CIA DOLLARS CREATE DEMONSTRATIONS: Tons of
money was sent to Pakistan for a well organized campaign to launch street demonstrations against
President Musharraf. Mr. Ahmed Quraishi has quoted $500 million in funds were disbursed. As in
1979, during the PNA demonstration millions of Dollars were dispersed among professional
agitators. Uzbek and Tajiks were recruited to create mayhem in Pakistan.

ƒ A shadowy group called the BLA, a Cold War relic, rose from the dead to restart a separatist
war in southwestern Pakistan. . Bugti’s death was a blow to neo-BLA, but the shadowy
group’s backers didn’t repent. His grandson, Brahmdagh Bugti, is currently enjoying a safe
shelter in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where he continues to operate and remote-control his
assets in Pakistan.
ƒ Saboteurs trained in Afghanistan have been inserted into Pakistan to aggravate extremist
passions here, especially after the Red Mosque operation.
 ƒ Chinese citizens continue to be targeted by individuals pretending to be Islamists, when no
known Islamic group has claimed responsibility. . A succession of “religious rebels” with
suspicious foreign links have suddenly emerged in Pakistan over the past months claiming to
be “Pakistani Taliban”. Some of the names include Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Baitullah Mehsud,
and now the Maulana of Swat. Some of them have used, and are using, encrypted
communication equipment far superior to what the Pakistani military owns.
ƒ Money and weapons have been fed into the religious movements and al-Qaeda remnants in
the tribal areas.

ƒ Exploiting the situation, assets within the Pakistani

media started promoting the idea that the Pakistani military was killing its own people. The
rest of the unsuspecting media quickly picked up this message. Some botched US and
Pakistani military operations against al-Qaeda that caused civilian deaths accidentally fed
this media campaign.This was the perfect timing for the launch of Military, Inc: Inside
Pakistan’s Military Economy, a book authored by Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, a columnist for a
Pakistani English-language paper and a correspondent for “Jane’s Defence Weekly”, a
private intelligence service founded by experts close to British intelligence. (Ahmed Quraishi
is an investigative reporter, currently hosting a weekly political talk show titled Worldview
from Islamabad.)

The media has been unleashed about the so called “instability” in Pakistan creating a justification for
continued and more abrasive offensive action in South Asia. This to create instability in Pakistan that
will be used as an excuse to continue the perpetual mimetic warfare in the Muslim world. Pakistan
has been facing the brunt of the US initiative to implement “Democracy” in Pakistan even though the
credentials of the champions of democracy are very weak. Neither Egypt, nor Uganda, nor Congo,
nor Haiti, nor Taiwan, nor China nor Israel nor Russia face the US medias pontification on how great
democracy is. This expose of Geo origins has tries to uncover the reasons why Geo acts so strangely.

Geo employs a lot of good reporters, but it also employs program hosts whose credentials and loyalty
to Pakistan is questionable. For example Mr. Shaharyar Azhar is a known follower of Neocon
philosophy and ideas always highlighting the negative news about Pakistan and not taking India or
other countries to task. There are reports in the press that Geo has been instrumental in the
campaign of disinformation about Pakistan. It has become a willing or unwilling instrument of those
who wanted to destabilize Pakistan. The governemnt of Pakistan and the ISI of Pakistan got wind
of Geo plans and recommended to the President to take action against Geo. The Emergency imposed
by the previous government was to thwart the campaign of disinformation that was running
concurrently by Time magazine and Newsweek Magazine and the Neocon News agencies in the West.

Why does Geo generally show the Indian version of events and why does its news sound like a
translation of CNN news? Geo’s dangerous general policies are the main reason that the Pakistan
was not allowing Geo to resume its transmission. Amazingly Geo is now starting a new “English
News” channel to continue its activities against the the country. Where is the funding for all this
coming from?

Whether Geo is an unwilling victim of its sponsors and her affiliates in the USA or India, or is Geo
running a planned campaign and got caught with its pants down.

All Geo viewers want to find out the truth!

THE DETAILS TO DESTABILIZE PAKISTAN ARE AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA AND

KNOWN TO THE PAKISTANI LEADERSHIP WHICH HAS TAKEN PREVENTATIVE
ACTIONS

Professor Michel Chossudovsky sheds some light on the plan:

ƒ “ It has been known for months that the Bush-Cheney administration and its allies have been
maneuvering to strengthen their political control of Pakistan, paving the way for the
expansion and deepening of the “war on terrorism” across the region.
ƒ Various American destabilization plans, known for months by officials and analysts,
proposed the toppling of Pakistan’s military…
ƒ The assassination of Bhutto appears to have been anticipated. There were even reports of
“chatter” among US officials about the possible assassinations of either Pervez Musharraf or
Benazir Bhutto, well before the actual attempts took place. (Larry Chin, Global Research, 29
December 2007)
ƒ “Regime change” with a view to ensuring continuity under military rule is no longer the
main thrust of US foreign policy. The regime of Pervez Musharraf cannot prevail.
Washington’s foreign policy course is to actively promote the political fragmentation and
balkanization of Pakistan as a nation.
ƒ A new political leadership is anticipated but in all likelihood it will take on a very different
shape, in relation to previous US sponsored regimes. One can expect that Washington will
push for a compliant political leadership, with no commitment to the national interest, a
leadership which will serve US imperial interests, while concurrently contributing under the
disguise of “decentralization”, to the weakening of the central government and the fracture
of Pakistan’s fragile federal structure.
ƒ The political impasse is deliberate. It is part of an evolving US foreign policy agenda, which
favors disruption and disarray in the structures of the Pakistani State. Indirect rule by the
Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus is to be replaced by more direct forms of US
interference, including an expanded US military presence inside Pakistan.
ƒ This expanded military presence is also dictated by the Middle East-Central Asia geopolitical
situation and Washington’s ongoing plans to extend the Middle East war to a much broader
area.
ƒ “U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an
effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine
counterterrorism units” (William Arkin, Washington Post, December 2007).
ƒ The official justification and pretext for an increased military presence in Pakistan is to
extend the “war on terrorism”. Concurrently, to justify its counterrorism program,
Washington is also beefing up its covert support to the “terrorists.”
ƒ …Already in 2005, a report by the US National Intelligence Council and the CIA forecast a
“Yugoslav-like fate” for Pakistan “in a decade with the country riven by civil war, bloodshed
 and inter-provincial rivalries, as seen recently in Balochistan.” (Energy Compass, 2 March
2005).
ƒ ….Continuity, characterized by the dominant role of the Pakistani military and intelligence
has been scrapped in favor of political breakup and balkanization.
ƒ ….This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East
Central Asian region. US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in
triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while
also weakening the institutions of the central government. The broader objective is to
fracture the Nation State and redraw the borders of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and
Pakistan Professor Michel Chossudovsky

STRANGE HEPPENINGS AT GEO THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED: Here are some facts
about Geo and some example of how Geo demorolizes the population and the general body of the
Pakistani dispora.

ƒ GEO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRASH OF THE STOCK MARKET: Geo repeatedly
telecasted false news about the Pakistani economy, the political situation and hence the stock
market crashed in Pakistan In a pre-orchestrated campaign.
ƒ Geo focuses on the negative news and instead of focusing on solutions it shows bodies of dead
people in contradiction of PEMRA and all decency requirements.
ƒ Geo focuses on petrol prices but does not inform the viewers that most private cars in Pakistan
now run on CNG (liqufied petroluem gas) which costs $5 for a tank full. Most people driving
cars are not affected by the rise in petrol (gasoline) prices.
ƒ In a planned manner Geo supresses and ignores good news like 5.1 billion dollar of oil refinery
in Pakistan
Geo usually ignores good news like $28 Billion Emar international island development
ƒ Geo is averse to good news about Pakistan–there is no discussion of the Bullet Trains in
Pakistan.
ƒ Geo does not focus foreign interference in Pakistani affairs.
ƒ Geo did not discuss the 89 separatist movements in India in 2007 …from Seven Northeastern
sister states, to the Naxalite insurrection, to Bihar to Kashmir, to Assam etc…
 ƒ Geo Dramas: 50 percent of the dramas are Indian dramas on Geo and 25 percent are with
mix cast (Indian and Pakistani) and Indian film
ƒ Geo focuses on showing beheading of people and other depressing news.
ƒ Why did Geo not focus on showing 250 million people sleeping on sidewalks in India?
ƒ Geo did not cover for 36 hours the killing of 3000 Muslims in Gujrat?
ƒ Urdu is not used by many hosts. Morning host shows are in English and “Urdlish” ( a horrible
combination). The Younger generation is being spoiled by using them as instruments of
hedonism.
ƒ Some of the shows are way beyond the pale on being modern. Nudity is not modernity. Science
and Technology is modernity.
ƒ Geo plays into the hands of the opposition parties. It does not discuss opportunities for
development.
When Mr. Shaharayar interviewed the President of Azad Kashmir he interrupted him and did
not allow him to speak about the problems with the article of accession of Kashmir to India
(which is now lost) if it ever existed.
ƒ Geo continues to use Indian jargon like “partition”. Partition signifies a temporary dissection
of the whole. India was never whole. Even during British times there were more than 500
states in the Subcontinent. Some of them banded together to make Pakistan and others
banded together to make India.
ƒ Discussion of Kashmir, Manvanagar, Junagarh are non-existent on Geo. Most Geo maps show
Kashmir as part of Pakistan. Zad Kashmir is never shown. Some Geo maps sill show the
Nothern Areas as part of India or partof Kashmir.
ƒ Kamran Khan was getting RS 25 lakh per month. Income vs. salary? Dr. Shahid Mahmud used
to get Rs 22 laks per month. He was a member of NSF student Hamid Mir the Editor of
“Ausaf” get Rs. 22 Lakh per month.
ƒ Nadia Khan gets Rs 6 lacs per month. Income vs. salary?When Geo was not able to broadcast
the 8-hour cricket match, Geo said they lost 1 billion Rupees, After the ban Goo kept on
broadcasting for 36 hours without any income?Let us investigate the players involved with
Geo from information that is publicly available. We see these links which will be analyzed.

1) The controversial David Hazinski an ex US Navy Petty Officer with contacts with the
State Department and the American Jewish Committee (AJC)
2) Who is Todd Fratz and why does Geo associate with such characters?

3) Casper Weinberger, Ronald Reagan’s indicted and pardoned Secretary of Defense who predicted
the “Next War” with a rogue state like Iran. Why does Geo align itself with known war mongeres.

4) Geo has strategic links with SkyTV of the UK, CNN, IBN-CNN in India and the Voice of America
(VOA). See article on VOA Geo alliance in Pakistan.
http://www.usembassy.gov/pakistan/h05111301.html

ORIGINS OF GEO:

Geo was started with the help of an ex US Naval Petty Officer by the name of Hazinski who has links
with Mr. Casper Weinberger and many Indian channels.

According to (http://www.intelligentmc.com/people.html) “Most recently, he re-designed the

central International Broadcast Center for the Voice of America in Washington and is consulting on
new network launches for the VOA”. Mr. Hazinski is the principal of the company called
IntelligentMC (http://www.intelligentmc.com/Welcome.html,2870 Peachtree Road #713, Atlanta,
GA 30305-2918, USA, email: info@intelligentmc.com, url: http://www.intelligentmc.com).the other
principal of Intelligent MC is Mr. Todd Frantz. “Todd comes to IMC from 10 years at CNN in
Atlanta”. He has links to “Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research
at The University of Georgia”

David Hazinski, associate professor at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and
Mass Communication, is the principle architect of GEO-TV and managed the station’s launch.
Hazinski was contacted by the Jang Group, Pakistan’s largest newspaper publisher and GEO-TV’s
owner, after he shepherded the successful launch of a similar station in India in January 2001. Aaj
Tak, the first all-news, Hindi-language channel in India, now has a 60% share of the news audience
in India.

As one of the owners of Intelligent Media Consultants, an Atlanta-based company that helps its
clients design efficient and profitable network operations through the creative application of
broadcast technology, Hazinski has worked all over the world launching news operations in markets
starved for unbiased reporting. “This is really the cutting edge of technology and journalism,” says
Hazinski, a former NBC news correspondent who says he and his partners have helped launch at
least a dozen news operations in the last 10 years. “These are new markets. They haven’t been
exposed to lots of TV.”

Because most of Intelligent Media’s clients are unfamiliar with broadcast news techniques, Hazinski
says he is able to tailor unique approaches that maximize their limited budgets. “These people are
willing to try new things because they don’t want to pay the outrageous costs associated with news
production in the United States,” he says. “Right now, based on what we learned in Pakistan, we’re
convinced we can launch a network today for half of what it would have cost three years ago. And no
one would see any quality difference on the air - even if we aired it in the U.S.”

At GEO-TV’s main broadcast center in Karachi, Hazinski built a newsroom around 24 Mac G4s
running Final Cut Pro. News footage is captured with 40 Sony PD150s and 15 PD100s. NewTek
Video Toaster 2 systems are used at bureaus in Islamabad and Lahore to switch between the main
broadcast center.

In addition to designing a systems approach for GEO-TV, Hazinski helped teach the station’s staff
how to use the equipment and how to produce television news. Greg Pope, a freelance editor and
producer formerly with CNN, spent one month in Karachi this summer training GEO-TV’s news
staff, which primarily consists of newspaper journalists. “We basically had to convert people from
print journalists to TV journalists,” says Pope, adding that he had never taught production
techniques in a classroom setting to non-English speaking students. “These print people were
basically issued cameras and editing equipment and within months were transformed from pen and
paper to this new electronic media. Some of them didn’t even know how to use a keyboard when we
started.”

Considering the steep learning curve for the Pakistani journalists, Pope says he was amazed at their
perseverance and enthusiasm. “These people are tired of having Western news and government news
shoved down their throats,” says Pope, who estimates that he taught 100 people to shoot and edit
video. “They want their own voice. They want to represent themselves in their own way.”

But there is still a chance that the government will shut down GEO-TV. Pope says that while he was
training the news staff, it was widely believed that there were spies for PTV within their ranks.
However, in recent years the Jang Group has won many battles for freedom of the press, so there is
hope that GEO-TV will succeed.

“If they have minimal government interference, [GEO-TV] will change the face of Pakistan,” says
Pope.

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/broadcast/video_voice_people/

WHO IS DAVID DAVID HAZINSKI? Why did Geo hire a known Neocon for help in content?

He owns Intelligent Media Consultants, LLC, a company responsible for training the staffs and
helping to launch eight television networks around the world, mostly on the sub-continent. These
include Aaj Tak and CNN-IBN in India and GEO TV in Pakistan. He has also consulted for
broadcasters and publishers such as the Voice of America, Gramedia in Indonesia, and Alsumaria in
Beirut and Baghdad. While on the faculty, Hazinski spent two years as writer, co-host and technology
advisor of the internationally syndicated World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger, the
Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan. Before coming to UGA, Hazinski served six years as an
international correspondent for NBC News, covering the U.S., Europe, and Central America — and
ten years before that as a TV reporter with stations in Charlotte and Pittsburgh. Office: 139, Fax
Number: (706) 542-2183, E-Mail Address: hazinski@grady.uga.edu

Hazinski holds a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the university’s highest
teaching award and has been appointed a Senior Teaching Fellow and a member of the Teaching
Academy. He has received more than a dozen local, state, and national journalism awards, including
a Golden Quill for Investigative Reporting.

Mr. Hazinski has been advocating restricting what he calls “Citizenship jounalism” which he
considers dangerous. (http://tinyurl.com/yvjoox),(http://tinyurl.com/26byuh)

Investigative reporters may scrutinize the details of Mr. resume posted at the bottom of this post.
Also posted on (http://www.grady.uga.edu/CV/Hazinski.2005.pdf)

http://www.athensworld.com/2007/12/response-to-professor-david-hazinski.html
WHAT DOES THE GEO CONSULTANT MR. HAZINSKI BELIEVE IN? His address to the
American Jewish Council dated 12/13/2007. You can read his article at the bottom of this page.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/12/citizened_1213.html

WHO IS CASPER WEINBERGER? And why did Geo associate with a known war monger?

Caspar Willard “Cap” Weinberger (August 18, 1917 - March 28, 2006), was an American politician
and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23,
1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after Robert McNamara and
Donald Rumsfeld. He is also known for his roles in the Strategic Defense Initiative program and the
Iran-Contra Affair.

Following his resignation as Secretary of Defense, Weinberger was placed under indictment by
Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh. The formal indictment charged Weinberger withseveral
felony counts of lying to the Iran-Contra independent counsel during its investigation. Weinberger
received a Presidential pardon from President George H.W. Bush on December 24, 1992, after Bush
had failed to win a second term.

In 1996, Weinberger co-authored a book entitled The Next War, which raised questions about the
adequacy of US military capabilities following the end of the Cold War. After he published his book,
his colleagues from the Reagan administration broke contact and refused to speak with him.

Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (’GBE’) in 1988, awarded in
recognition for an “outstanding and invaluable” contribution to military cooperation between the UK
and the US, particularly during the Falklands War of 1982. Wikipedia

WEINBERGER DISCUSSES IRAN AND THE NEXT WAR: From Publishers Weekly
Weinberger, secretary of defense for most of the Reagan years, collaborates with Schweizer,
president of the James Madison Institute, to present five possible near-future scenarios in which the
U.S. goes to war. Scenario one is based on a North Korean invasion of South Korea that ends in
stalemate after a limited nuclear exchange. Number two casts Iran as a rogue state using ballistic
missiles to alter the Middle East’s balance of power. The third scenario postulates a radical Mexican
government scapegoating the U.S. as the source of its country’s woes. A fourth describes the
conquest of Europe by a resurgent Russia?again with the aid of nuclear weapons. In scenario five, the
U.S. and Japan reignite the Pacific War of 1941-1945, this time using “cyberstrikes” against
information systems, chemical warfare and a nuclear exchange. The authors tell their stories through
the eyes of fictional participants. This format, familiar to readers of techno-thrillers, is an effective
framework for dramatizing a set of pessimistic conclusions. Because of America’s reduction of its
conventional armed forces and its failure to build a missile defense system, none of the scenarios
have outcomes more positive than stalemate achieved at high cost. The authors’ lament for such a
missile system and for the armed forces of the past won’t convince those who believe that the
dominant modes of future conflict will be terrorism and guerrilla war, however. Weinberger and
Schweizer nevertheless make a case deserving serious consideration by citizens and policy-makers
alike. PUblisher’s Weekly posted on Amazon

DESTABILIZING PAKISTAN: Geo has been blamed for participating in and highlighting events
per CNN instructions.

Why is Geo not reporting Gen. Kayani’s statement that he suspects a foreign hand in the
assassination to destabilize and denuclearize Pakistan? The silence is deafening!

Saboteurs trained in Afghanistan have been inserted into Pakistan to aggravate extremist passions
here, especially after the Red Mosque operation.

Chinese citizens continue to be targeted by individuals pretending to be Islamists, when no known

Islamic group has claimed responsibility. . A succession of “religious rebels” with suspicious foreign
links have suddenly emerged in Pakistan over the past months claiming to be “Pakistani Taliban”.
Some of the names include Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Baitullah Mehsud, and now the Maulana of Swat.
Some of them have used, and are using, encrypted communication equipment far superior to what
the Pakistani military owns.

Money and weapons have been fed into the religious movements and al-Qaeda remnants in the tribal
areas.
Exploiting the situation, assets within the Pakistani media started promoting the idea that the
Pakistani military was killing its own people. The rest of the unsuspecting media quickly picked up
this message. Some botched US and Pakistani military operations against al-Qaeda that caused
civilian deaths accidentally fed this media campaign.This was the perfect timing for the launch of
Military, Inc: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy, a book authored by Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, a
columnist for a Pakistani English-language paper and a correspondent for “Jane’s Defence Weekly”,
a private intelligence service founded by experts close to British intelligence.

This compares Geo with ARY and PTV

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ptv.com.pk+arydigitaltv.com+geo.tv/?metric=uv

This compares Geo with CNN and Foxnews websites.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/cnn.com+foxnews.com+geo.tv/?metric=uv

Here are the statistics on the number of posts and discussion of Geo on various boards:

http://boardreader.com/tp/Geo+tv.html

If things do not change, Pakistanis should cancel Geo and let them suffer.

END OF ARTICLE

APPENDIX A

press releases: VOA Launches Urdu TV For Pakistan, 11/13/2005

Washington, D.C. - The Voice of America (VOA) will launch Beyond the Headlines-its new television
program in Urdu-on Monday, Nov. 14. The half-hour program will air on GEO TV in Pakistan at 7:30
p.m. Monday through Friday and on selected international satellites, including AsiaSat (Virtual
Channel 409) and IOR (Virtual Channel 420).

Beyond the Headlines (Khabron se Aage), a fast-paced, contemporary production designed with
young and urban Pakistanis in mind, will continue VOA’s 63-year tradition of broadcasting accurate
and balanced information. Programs will examine international developments, technology, politics,
social issues, education, religion, sports, and entertainment.

“We look forward to opening this important new channel of communication between the American
people and Pakistan,” said Steven J. Simmons, a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
(BBG), which oversees all United States international radio and television services. Simmons is
chairman of the BBG’s Voice of America Committee, and has played a key role in increasing radio
and TV service to Pakistan, including Beyond the Headlines.

“We’re particularly delighted with our partnership with GEO TV, the leading cable/satellite
broadcaster in the Urdu language,” Simmons added. “This new program, together with our
expanded radio service, demonstrates our growing commitment to reach the people of Pakistan with
new, engaging programs on both radio and TV.”

“The links between Pakistan and the United States are strong and growing, and our new show is a
reflection of that,” said VOA Director David S. Jackson. “Beyond the Headlines will focus not only on
the big issues of the day, but also on features, business, and culture stories that illuminate the world
we live in. For example, we’ll show how Pakistanis live and work and go to school in the U.S. We
want to provide a unique mix of stories that viewers can’t find anywhere else.”

Farah Ispahani is the managing editor and executive producer for Beyond the Headlines. She
joined VOA earlier this year, bringing more than 20 years of experience in print and television media
at such news organizations as CNN, ABC, and NBC. Before she joined VOA, Ispahani, who is a fluent
Urdu speaker, was instrumental in the launch of CNN’s Paula Zahn Now and Anderson Cooper 360.

Anchoring Beyond the Headlines will be Aneka Osman. A familiar face to Pakistanis, Osman worked
as an English language news anchor on Pakistan Television. She has covered regional and national
security issues, Pakistan-India relations, the conflict in the Middle East, and Pakistan’s general
elections. She has also worked on Prime Television, the UK-based Pakistani channel, and on the
Business Plus Channel.

Ayaz Gul is VOA Urdu’s Chief Reporter and Pakistan Coverage Coordinator for Radio Aap ki Dunyaa
(Your World Radio), VOA’s Urdu radio service, and Beyond the Headlines. Gul, who is based in
Pakistan, has been filing on-the-scene reports in Urdu and English for VOA since 1996, and his
reports are translated into numerous languages throughout VOA. Prior to joining VOA, he worked
for the Japanese network NHK and for the German news agency DPA as a reporter specializing in
Pakistan’s foreign and domestic news.
VOA’s Urdu Service broadcasts 12 hours a day of news and information to millions of Pakistanis and
other Urdu speakers on Radio Aap ki Dunyaa. The program is distributed by medium wave at 972
kHz, digital audio satellite, the Internet and a three-hour shortwave broadcast. The launch of Beyond
the Headlines adds two-and-half hours of television to the Urdu Service’s weekly broadcast schedule.

The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting
service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA
broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming
every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 100 million people. Programs are
produced in 44 languages.

For more information, call VOA’s Office of Public Affairs at or E-Mail publicaffairs@voa.gov

Unfettered ‘citizen journalism’ too risky By DAVID HAZINSKI, Published on: 12/13/07

You’re beginning to get a lot more news … from you.

It ranges from the CNN YouTube debates to political blogs to cellphone video of that sniper who
opened fire at an Omaha Mall. These are all examples of so called “citizen journalism,” the hot new
extension of the news business where the audience becomes the reporter.
David Hazinski, a former NBC correspondent, is an associate professor of telecommunications and
head of broadcast news at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism.

Supporters of “citizen journalism” argue it provides independent, accurate, reliable information that
the traditional media don’t provide. While it has its place, the reality is it really isn’t journalism at all,
and it opens up information flow to the strong probability of fraud and abuse. The news industry
should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend.

The premise of citizen journalism is that regular people can now collect information and pictures
with video cameras and cellphones, and distribute words and images over the Internet. Advocates
argue that the acts of collecting and distributing makes these people “journalists.” This is like saying
someone who carries a scalpel is a “citizen surgeon” or someone who can read a law book is a “citizen
lawyer.” Tools are merely that. Education, skill and standards are really what make people into
trusted professionals. Information without journalistic standards is called gossip.
But unlike those other professions, journalism - at least in the United States - has never adopted
uniform self-regulating standards. There are commonly accepted ethical principles - two source
confirmation of controversial information or the balanced reporting of both sides of a story, for
example, but adhering to the principles is voluntary. There is no licensing, testing, mandatory
education or boards of review. Most other professions do a poor job of self-regulation, but at least
they have mechanisms to regulate themselves. Journalists do not.

So without any real standards, anyone has a right to declare himself or herself a journalist. Major
media outlets also encourage it. Citizen journalism allows them to involve audiences, and it is a free
source of information and video. But it is also ripe for abuse.

CNN’s last YouTube Republican debate included a question from a retired general who is on Hillary
Clinton’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendersteering committee. False Internet rumors about
Sen. Barack Obama attending a radical Muslim school became so widespread that CNN and other
news agencies did stories debunking the rumors. There are literally hundreds of Internet hoaxes and
false reports passed off as true stories, tracked by sites such as snopes.com.

Having just anyone produce widely distributed stories without control can have the reverse effect
from what advocates intend. It’s just a matter of time before something like a faked Rodney King
beating video appears on the air somewhere.

Journalism organizations should head that off. Citizen reports can be a valuable addition to news
and information flow with some protections:

• Major news organizations must create standards to substantiate citizen-contributed information

and video, and ensure its accuracy and authenticity.

• They should clarify and reinforce their own standards and work through trade organizations to
enforce national standards so they have real meaning.

• Journalism schools such as mine at the University of Georgia should create mini-courses to certify
citizen journalists in proper ethics and procedures, much as volunteer teachers, paramedics and
sheriff’s auxiliaries are trained and certified.
Journalists generally don’t like any kind of standards or regulation. Many argue that standards could
infringe on freedom of the press and journalism shouldn’t be regulated.

But we have already seen the line between news and entertainment blur enough to destroy
significant credibility. Continuing to do nothing as information flow changes will further erode it.
Journalism organizations who choose to do nothing may soon find the line between professional and
citizen journalism gone as well as the trust of their audiences.
Associate Professor/Head, Broadcast News .

Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. 1987 to present. Teach upper level
and graduate professional courses in radio/ television news production, broadcast news writing,
documentary production and advanced television news. Leads a professional focused faculty which
originated and administers student-produced, commercially broadcast college news and public
affairs television programs.
NBC NEWS (NEW YORK, N.Y.)

Correspondent, 1981-1987. International network news correspondent based in the Atlanta, Ga.
bureau, responsible for primarily hard news coverage in the Southeastern United States and Central
America. Reports appeared regularly on the TODAY SHOW, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw,
NBC Weekend News, and the NBC and The Source national radio networks. Also responsible for
primary field-testing and implementation of the NBC News computer system.
WPXI-TV (PITTSBURGH, PA.)

Service on international issues including the return of the Iranian hostages, the installation of Pope
John Paul II, the rise of Solidarity in Poland and the ongoing civil war in Northern Ireland.
WSOC-TV (CHARLOTTE, N.C.)

Reporter, 1973-1976. Political and general assignments reporter. Morning and elections anchor.
Freelance assignments for NBC News, Newsweek TV, United Press International Television, and the
TVN international syndication service.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

STAR ANANDA (KOLKATTA, INDIA), Associate Project Manager/Training Director, 12/2004 -

5/2005, Directed a team of international consultants who created, along with their Indian
counterparts, a 24-hour local news and information channel in the Bengali language which launched
in May, 2005. Took part in all levels of macro-planning. Specifically direct a two month staff training
process which trained approximately 100 people in all phases of television news production.

PULS-TV (VIENNA, AUSTRIA), Associate Project Manager/Training Director, 4/2004- 7/2004. Co-
direct a team of international consultants who created, along with their Austrian counterparts, a 24-
hour local news and information city channel, the first in that country. Took part in all levels of
macro-planning. Specifically direct a two-month staff training program which trained approximately
100 people in all phases of television production.

GEO-TV / JANG PUBLISHING GROUP (KARACHI, PAKISTAN), Associate Project

Manager/Training Director, 4/2002- 9/2002. Co-direct a team of international consultants who
created, along with their Pakistani counterparts, a 24-hour news channel based in Karachi, Pakistani
with major centers in Islamabad, Lahore and Dubai, UAE. Took part in all levels of macro-planning.
Specifically direct a three-month hiring and staff training process which processed 15,000 applicants
and trained a staff of 300.

Vice President, 1985-present. Officer and part owner of a firm engaged in trucking, warehousing and
freight consolidation with gross receipts exceeding three million dollars a year. Contributor to all
levels of corporate decision making including future planning, personnel, equipment acquisition and
finance.
VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (ATLANTA, GA.)

President, 1989-present. Chief Executive Officer and equity owner of a firm engaged in television
production, media consulting, satellite distribution, the production of video news releases, and
industrial and instructional video materials.
INTELLIGENT MEDIA CONSULTING, LLC (ATLANTA, GA.)

Principal, 1999-present. Owner and executive officer of a firm engaged in international television
and media startups and systems design. Projects include Aaj Tak in India, Gramedia’s launch of
Channel 7 in Indonesia, and the re-design of the U.S. Voice of America’s International Broadcasting
Bureau in Washington, D.C.
BROADCAST PRODUCER/TALENT, 1987-present. Engaged as an independent writer, producer,
narrator and/or on-camera performer for both broadcast and instructional information, education
and public service programming.

Clients included:

•National Association of Retired Persons •IBM (instructional and national video news releases)

•National Air and Space Museum •Bass Anglers Sportsman Society

•United Way •Sioux Nations

•Government of Indonesia •Apple Computers

•Georgia Board of Education •U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

•Federal Bureau of Investigation •American Guernsey Association

•Sylvan Learning Centers •MIT

•Atlanta Committee For The Olympic Games •Lucent Technologies

•BellSouth •AT&T

•Sterling Commerce

EDUCATION

Masters of Education, Educational Communications and Technology, Graduate School of Education,

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1980.

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1973.

MILITARY

U.S. Navy, Radioman, Second Class Petty Officer, discharged honorably, Da Nang, Republic of Viet
Nam, 1968-70.

Navy Courses Completed:

- Basic Electronics and Electricity

- Radioman Class “A” program

COURSES TAUGHT

- Radio and Television News Production

- Advanced Radio and Television News Production
- Broadcast News Writing
- Documentary Production Management
- Broadcast Show Origination
- Television News Reporting
- originated CNN Newsource college affiliate program, made nationwide spring, 1990. 300
participating schools at this time.
- originated University News college news program, which on a half dozen commercial stations, with
contributions from six other universities, 1987-1990. Superceded by a daily, live news program
broadcast to three area counties, which continues.
- originated Broadcast News Bluejeans Workshop, bringing network level professionals to campus to
work with students, 1988-present.
- originated, with Professor Al Wise, Camera South, magazine format entertainment program shown
on commercial stations, spring, 1992.
- originated a broadcast news writing course now the foundation for the broadcast news sequence,
1990.
- created, with CNN Director of Technology Todd Fantz, a multimedia interactive program to teach
broadcast news writing, 1994.
- principal faculty, with Clarke County School District, cooperative Micro-society Broadcasting
Program, 1995.
- created, with Prof. Martha Cameron, Georgia GameDay, a student produced sports show, 1999.

- Initiated a new remote broadcasting system on campus which allows student journalists to report
“live” via electric news vehicles and cable channel modulation, 2000.
- Initiated a joint venture with R/com Networks, inc. to certify distance learning courses and
programs for adult education courses, 2000-present.
- Initiated remote field video editing for the construction of on-scene reports using laptop computers
and digital cameras, 2001.
- Produced (to our knowledge), the first student television “live shots” over the internet, 2004.
- Expanded student “internet live shots’ to include wireless video-over-IP transmissions, 2005.
- Currently developing with IMC Principal Todd Fantz, an Apple-based newsroom information and
video playback system that includes teleprompter, story management, rundown, news wire parcing,
scripting and scheduling system.

* Management Consultant, Orange County Newschannel, 1990.

* Executive Producer, Production and Satellite Coverage, American Association of Retired Persons
1990 International Convention.
* Correspondent/Producer, American Association of Retired Persons 1988 International Convention.
* Executive Producer, TV satellite coverage, Bass Anglers Sportsman Society National
Championship, 1987- 2000.
* Consultant, Office of the Attorney General of the United States, 1992-93.
* Consultant, Media Management & Crisis Communications, Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of
the Interior, 1990- 2000.
* Peabody Awards, faculty screening committee, 1987- 1999.
* National Association of Farm Cooperatives, judge, 1988-89.
* Golden Quill Awards, judge, 1986.
* Radio-Television News Directors Association, 1988- present.
* International Association of Business Communicators, judge, 1990.
* U.S. Army Headquarters, Forces Command, judge, Keith L. Ware Awards, September, 1991.
* Broadcast Education Association, 1993. Chair, National University News Network Committee.
* Broadcast Education Association, 1994-present, Co-chair, News Division.
* Executive Producer, CNN Broadcast News Training Program, 1993- 1995.
* Consultant, WJCL-TV, Savannah, Georgia, 1992-93.
* Consultant, new media systems design, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995.
* Consultant, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, on media management and crisis communications, 1991-
present.
* Education Task Force, Radio-Television News Directors Association, 1998-present.
* Turner Broadcasting/CNN Educational Committee, 1998-2000.
* Consultant, International Broadcast Bureau, Voice of America, 2001.
* Consultant, Gramedia International, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2001.
* Consultant, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. 2002.
* Consultant, Weather News International, Tokyo & Norman, OK, 2004-present.
* Consultant, Alsumaria Television Network, Baghdad & Beirut, 2005-present.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

- “Video News Release Labels Go Unread”, Electronic Media, November 4, 1991.

- “Video News Releases That Work”, Outdoor ADventures, October, 1991.
- “Digital Compression’s Maiden Voyage”, Electronic Media, November 18, 1991.
- “A Powerful Tool For Publicity”, Outdoor ADventures, August, 1991.
- “Television Guide”, training pamphlet written for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, spring, 1990.
- “Equal Time”, Feedback, Broadcast Education Association, Winter, 1989.
- “Hi Tech/Low Cost College Computer Graphics”, American Journal of Commercial Art, February,
1990.
- “Women See Opportunities in TV News”, Electronic Media, September 24, 1990.
- “The Future of TV News”, Electronic Media, October, 1992.
- “Crisis Communications”, training pamphlet written for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, summer,
1993.
- “Throwing Money After High Tech No Help to News”, Electronic Media, December 12, 1994.
- “(Almost) Free Live Shots Using Apple iChat AV”, DL Quarterly, January, 2005
- “New Age Broadcast News Instruction”, DL Quarterly, January, 2005.

HONORS AND AWARDS

- Kappa Tau Alfa, Journalism Scholastic Honorary.

- Winner, Meigs Department Teaching Award, 1992.

- First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1975, North and South Carolina Radio and Television News
Directors Association.

- Co-winner, Best News Story of The Year, 1977, Pittsburgh Chapter, American Federation of
Television and Radio Artists.
- Winner, Best News Story of The Year, 1978, Pittsburgh Chapter, American Federation of Television
and Radio Artists.

- Winner, Outstanding Use of Television, 1981, Pittsburgh Chapter, American Federation of

Television and Radio Artists.

- Winner, Golden Quill Award, 1981, Enterprise/Investigative Reporting.

- Winner, San Francisco State Media Award, 1981, Investigative Reporting.

- Winner, Golden Phoenix, 1994, Public Relations Society of America, Best Video News Release.

- First Place, News Division, 1995 Broadcast Education Association, juried faculty production.

- First Place, 1995 American Corporate Video Awards, Best Video News Release.

- Finalist, 1995 International Mercury Awards, International Academy of Communications Arts &
Sciences, Video News Release.

- Silver Award, 1995, International Mercury Awards, International Academy of Communications Arts
& Sciences, Video News Release.

- Award of Excellence, 1996, Apex Awards For Publication Excellence, Communications Concepts,
Video News Release.

- Silver Award, 1996, International Mercury Awards, International Academy of Communications Arts
& Sciences, Video News Releases.

- Award of Distinction, 1997, International Merc Mercury Awards, International Academy of

Communications Arts & Sciences, Video News Releases.

- Distinguished Teaching Award,, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003. University of Georgia.

- Awarded Joshua Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, 2004.

- Appointed, Senior Teaching Fellow, 2004.

- Appointed, Teaching Academy Member, 2004.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

SELECTED GRANTS AND DONATIONS

Multi-machine video editing, University of Georgia, 1990, $23,000.

Apple Computer digital editing, $75,000, 1994.

CNN technology, $580,000, 1995.

Georgia lottery matching grant, $240,000, 1995

CNN Headline News set, $35,000, 1995.

Sony Corporation video switcher, $55,000, 1996.

Cox Broadcasting analog router, $220,000, 1997.

Georgia Public Television satellite truck, $400,000, 1998.

Fox Broadcasting Atlanta television set, $110,000. 1999 Remote digital broadcasting, University
of Georgia, $98,000, 2000.
VizRT Graphics Grant, University of Georgia/VizRt, $520,000, 2003.
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

- Scholarship and Awards

- University Council
- University Unified Grievance Committee
- Faculty Affairs Committee
- Cox Center for International Training and Research
- Department Facilities Committee
- Joint Faculty/Staff Grievance Committee (Chair)
- National College News Network Committee, Broadcast Education Association, (Chair)
- Academic Honesty Committee
- 1999-2000 Facilities Self-Study
- University Technology Advisory Committee
- University CIO Search Committee
- University Provost’s IT Task Force Member
- Faculty Search Committee (Chair)
- College Informational Resources Committee (Chair)
- Department Admissions Committee

INNOVATIVE INSTRUCTION
CHARLOTTE BAY TRADING COMPANY (CHARLOTTE, N.C.)
MULTI MEDIA PRODUCTIONS “USA”, INC. (BOCA RATON, FLA.) Co-Host and Technology
Advisor, World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger, 1996-1999. Write, co-host and advise the
production of a weekly, internationally syndicated radio, television and Internet distributed program
featuring interviews with CEO’s from Fortune 500 companies on their latest technology and business
systems.
AAJ TAK / INDIA TODAY (NEW DELHI, INDIA) Project Manager, 4/2000-12/2000. In charge of
an international team of consultants who created, along with their Indian counterparts, a new
satellite and terrestrially distributed 24-hour national news channel in the Hindi language. Project
involves creating a main facility from scratch, establishing 14 bureaus around the country, and the
introduction of new technology and systems design. Project management included establishment of
programming, policies and procedures, hiring and personnel guidelines, look and feel, contracted
construction, the training of 250 initial staff, vendor oversight, and overall organizational structure
and control.

David C. Hazinski

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Pakistan: If It’s Zardari’s End, It Should Be Nawaz’s Too

Pakistan: Sharif Playing Dirty, Again

Sharif verdict sparks unrest in Pakistan

Pakistan: What Can We Do?

A Pakistani Psycho Circus

Ayaz Amir: Nawaz Sharif Is ‘Impulsive’, Unwise

Video: Nawaz Sharif Exposed!

Nawaz Sharif, Kamran Khan & National Interest

Nawaz Sharif, India & The ‘Daughters Game’

Lawyers’ Iftikhar: A Messiah Or A Pawn?

The Lawyer Charade: Forget Principles, It’s Another Dirty Trick

Chaudhry Iftikhar & The Benazirization Of Pakistan

Video: The Project for New American Century Exposed!

Codename Operation Enduring Turmoil Exposed! - Neocon Plans for Pakistan and rest of the World

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W Done Mrr Ansari. I do

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November 3, 20
008 at 9:33 am
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w Pakistan
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2 at 2:02 pm
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Fantastic piecce of research

h. Hats off to Moin Ansarii. The busineess community of Pakistan
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an
nd the artistss should read
d this article and open theeir eyes that how
h innocen
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gration campa
aign against their beloved
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t channeels.
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November 19, 2008
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nd your fetish
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2 at 9:51 am
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i no doubt Geo
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ant and feuda
al leadership
p! Everyone here
h in Pakisttan is
m
missing Mush
harraf now…

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* I think you are not aware of GEO…its been funded by USA govt……just think, what jew /
indian/ American lobby want ……… the basic , idea is to promote frustration, and
despondence in a nation so they start to demoralized .and the future can be mapped as they
want to project in the minds of 50 percent Illiterate population….that are born muslim
,,,can’t read.. but can see.
* why on earth USA is concern with only GEO ,why cnn bbc and bush quote GEO? why not
other tv channels in china ? japan, CUBA ,Indian channel,arab, france ….. ?why only
pakistan??????
* why geo showed ..peoples body without head ,only fingers parts, people dying after bomb
blast ,?does any other channel show these thing????
* Just think……
* · (in India more then 2000 muslims were killed in Gujarat for three months!!!! any 36
hours live coverage of these killing have any one seen on ZEE or star or sony, etc any Indian
channels???? Babri masjid was destroyed by hindu any live coverage ???? nuns in tamil nado
of India were burn alive in church and for next 6 hours the church was burning did any
Indian or cnn or bbc showed that ?????in france 700 cars were burn in one day ) ,,,
* · There are 89 separatist movement in India in 2007 …from bihar to Kashmir assam etc….
* · Do you see on any Indian channel showing …250 million people sleeping on footpath?????
* · (zee India never showed killing of Kashmiris and the attack on GOLDEN TEMPLE ,killing
of Sikhs in Indian soil///////
* · how many Israeli channel show killing by Israeli soldiers ????when they kill
Palestinians?????
* · have you ever seen Indian president or politician been given GALEE on tv channel during
live coverage????
* · any killing by irish republican army
* · 30,000 rape cases in USA do you see on tv????but you see muktaran maee on
geo/cnn/bbc
* · Why geo was not concerned with benazir wealth and property?? And Nawaz sharif
property??
*
* WHO is GEO ???? just think ???? they telecast a false news about emergency and stock
market crashed in Pakistan …
* · do you know Kamran khan was getting RS 25 lakh per month ,
* · do you know DR shahid masood, was a member of NSF student party ( a political left wing
student party against Pakistan and Islamic forces…. He use to sit around girls all day long )
with RS 22 lakh per month and home in dubai and karachi ,,multiple visa …
* · ..same amount been paid to hamid meer editor ausaf……even nadia khan with Rs 6 lakh
per month…. Such huge amount just to for free ???????
* · when they were not able to broadcast the 8 hour cricket match they said they lost 1 billion
rupee ,and just imagine without any money just for free they were broadcasting judge activity
in peoples party car for free ], Nawaz sharif for free and benazir for free……all… 36 hour
coverage just for free ?????????????????by a private channel !!!!!!!!!!!!!
* · 50 percent Indian dramas on geo and 25 percent with mix cast (Indian and Pakistani) and
Indian films (which are ban in Pakistani cinema are been broadcasted by geo) movie like
‘khuda key liyaeh’ an issue of so that people can play with Islam and its culture …..were
telecasted…..
* · alim online where mr amir liaqat sitting in grave and dramatizing islam ..he translated the
dua of imam kaba and .broadcasted by his name on tv …. Audience 50% jahil people in
pakistan
* · geo did not showed any good news like islamabad peshwar motorway but instead it
showed dead people in karachi ….they never discuss 5.1 billion dollar of oil refinery in
pakistan instead they showed beheading of Pakistani people… never discuss why America is
telling musharf to take his uniform ????/why usa is interfering in our
business..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*
* itna jhoot bolo key ….log sum jahen kuch to succch ho ga ….
* A COUNTRY WHERE 60 percent of population cannot read and never been to school
media must not be free ……
* Actually its not foreign people involved directly in destroying Pakistan infact it us.

Pakistan and China are almost of same age but a huge difference.
Do you we need to be demolished completely or need rulers from USA/Europe as we had
before 1947?
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09 at 7:56 pm

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out your survvival!

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The widely expected victory for Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari in the
presidential election brought to a high point the tortuous process of regime change in
Pakistan. Anyone who has followed the ‘colour revolutions’ that installed pro-American
rulers in Georgia (Rose Revolution, 2003), Ukraine (Orange Revolution, 2004) and
Kyrgyzstan (Tulip Revolution, 2005) could surely not have missed the tell tale signs.

The earliest foreboding surfaced in the backroom manoeuvres by United States (US) and
British intelligence services to engineer panic about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear assets.
It was a repeat of the duplicitous hysteria they generated over non-existent weapons of mass
destruction that Iraq allegedly possessed. A carefully worded article, co-authored by former
State Department officials Richard L. Armitage and Kara L. Bue, signalled the shift in US
policy. After formally acknowledging then President Pervez Musharraf’s many achievements,
the authors continued: ‘much remains to be accomplished, particularly in terms of
democratization. Pakistan must…eliminate the home-grown jihadists…And…it must prove
itself a reliable partner on technology transfer and nuclear non-proliferation.’ And the
denouement: ‘We believe General Musharraf…deserves our attention and support, no matter
how frustrated we become at the pace of political change and the failure to eliminate Taliban
fighters on the Afghan border.’ Translation: Musharraf has to go.

Almost simultaneously a 2006 country survey in The Economist, titled ‘Too much for one
man to do’, began on a jingoistic overkill: ‘Think about Pakistan, and you might get terrified.
Few countries have so much potential to cause trouble, regionally and worldwide’. The
following year a Carnegie Endowment report faulted western governments that ‘contribute to
regional instability by allowing Pakistan to trade democratisation for its cooperation on
terrorism’. Senior US State Department officials repeatedly accused Musharraf of ‘not doing
enough’ to combat Islamists within Pakistan and prevent their infiltration across the Durand
Line into southern Afghanistan.

Sensing the way wind was blowing, then PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto redoubled efforts
to convince Washington and London that, if she were to become Prime Minister, she would
gladly do their bidding. She underscored her enthusiasm to serve and ensured her party was
fully responsive to America’s Late Neo-colonialism. She summoned senior party members to
Dubai on 9 June 2007 for a ‘briefing’ by a team from the US Democratic Party’s National
Democratic Institute (NDI), ostensibly on the subject of elections in Pakistan. The ruling
Republican Party’s International Republican Institute (IRI) had conducted the previous four
‘briefings’ in June and September 2006 and March and April 2007. Benazir leaned towards
the Democratic Party in the last one no doubt as a hedge against the party’s possible victory
at the forthcoming US Presidential Election.

Even a cursory knowledge of US Imperialism’s standard operating procedure is sufficient to

surmise at least some among the IRI and NDI officers were covert intelligence operatives;
and that their ‘briefings’ went beyond ‘tutelage of natives’. Rather they have been grooming
the PPP as America’s satrap.

Benazir’s predilection to collaborate with the West has its roots in the Bhutto family’s micro
political culture. Her grandfather, Shah Nawaz Bhutto was a minor comprador official in the
British colonial regime. The British rewarded his ‘loyal’ services with the title Khan Bahadur
and later appointed him President of a District Board and still later elevated him to
knighthood.

Her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s populist programmes did not dilute that legacy, which left a
lasting impression on Benazir; she firmly believed the path to political power in Pakistan
meanders through the Embassy of the United States, the current neo-colonialist.

She promised to offer the International Atomic Energy Agency access to Dr Abdul Qadeer
Khan to ’satisfy the international community’, an euphemism for the major powers; and to
allow the US-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan to operate inside
north-western Pakistan. By the time Benazir visited the Senate in September 2007, she had
convinced the Bush Administration of her unswerving loyalty; for ’she received a standing
ovation from a select gathering of US lawmakers, diplomats, academics and media
representatives. This contrasted sharply with her previous visits to the US capital when she
received little attention.’ To deepen ‘Washington’s renewed interest in her, Benazir cautioned
that supporting Musharraf was ‘a strategic miscalculation’ and pleaded ‘the US should
support the forces of democracy’, which, of course, refers to her PPP.

So, President George W Bush enabled Benazir’s return from exile by arm-twisting Musharraf
to promulgate the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). The NRO of 5 October granted
amnesty to politicians active in Pakistan between 1988 and 1999 and effectively wiped the
slate clean of corruption charges for Benazir and her husband Asif Zardari. Three weeks later
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made it appear the Bush Administration wished to bring
together ‘moderate’ forces, implying a scenario in which Musharraf and Benazir would join
forces as President and Prime Minister respectively; and Deputy Secretary of State John
Negroponte corroborated Rice: ‘Our message’, he intoned, ‘is that we want to work with the
government and people of Pakistan’.

However, Musharraf saw through the US Administration’s transparent ploy to lull him into
believing it would not remove him and install Benazir in his place. So, he swiftly invited
Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), back from exile in
Saudi Arabia to counter Benazir. But he could not consolidate his position, especially because
he mishandled the judiciary, and was compelled to resign on 18 August 2008.

In a nutshell, the reason for ‘Washington’s renewed interest’ in Benazir is Musharraf’s firm
opposition to US Late Neo-colonialism, to its manoeuvres to occupy, pacify and ravage
Pakistan. In the 19th century British colonialism waged the ‘war on piracy’ on the high seas
ostensibly to bring ‘the light of Christian civilization’. But the British were the most
successful pirates, as Spanish and Portuguese historians would gladly confirm. The ‘war on
piracy’ was the duplicitous justification trotted out to dominate lucrative maritime trade
routes that were in the hands of Chinese, Arab and Tamil maritime empires and to invade
kingdoms and/or countries essential to control trade and plunder resources. During most of
the 20th century heroic anti-colonial movements and anti-imperialist wars rolled back much
of colonial rule, which in some instances however morphed into neo-colonialism. Indonesia
after Sukarno, Iran after Mosaddeq and Chile after Allende are well known examples.

The ‘war on terror’ and ‘promoting democracy’ are the 21st century equivalents of the 19th
century British gobbledygook. American Late Neo-colonialism purveys them as moral
justification and uses as political cover for intervening and, where necessary, invading
resource-rich and strategic countries to overthrow nationalist leaders, install puppet regimes
and savage the countries’ wealth. And of course the US is by far the most powerful terrorist
force.
It succeeded in Iraq (for now); but the CIA-organised regime change could not dislodge
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, who rejected the neo-colonialist 1989 Washington Consensus and
supported alternative nationalist economic models.

Politically challenged Pakistani liberals — a motley crowd that includes members of human
rights and civil liberties organisations, journalists, analysts, lawyers and assorted
professionals — are utterly incapable of comprehending the geo-strategic context in which
Musharraf manoeuvred to defend Pakistan’s interest. So they slandered him an ‘American
puppet’, alleging he caved in to US pressure and withdrew support to the Afghan Taliban
regime in the wake of 9/11 although in fact he removed one excuse for the Bush
Administration to ‘bomb Pakistan into stone age’, as a senior State Department official had
threatened.

Nevertheless American discomfort with Musharraf’s government was palpable by late 2003,
after he dodged committing Pakistani troops to prop up the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.
When he offered to cooperate under the auspices of the Organisation of the Islamic
Conference (OIC), naïve Pakistani media and analysts lunged for his jugular, condemning
him once again for succumbing to US demands. But in fact he nimbly sidestepped American
demands: he calculated that diverse ideological stances of the 57 Muslim member-counties
would not allow the OIC to jointly initiate such controversial action and therefore Pakistan’s
participation cannot arise, which proved correct.

Washington of course was not amused and the Bush Administration grew increasingly hostile
to Musharraf’s determination to prioritise Pakistan’s interests when steering the ship of the
state through the choppy waters of the unfolding New Great Game, in which the West — led
by the US — is manoeuvring to contain growing Russian and Chinese influences in Central
and West Asia. His foreign policy decisions over time convinced Washington that under his
leadership, Pakistan would side with enemies of US and Britain in the New Great Game.
First, he refused to isolate Iran; instead he vigorously pursued energy cooperation to build
the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline in the face of stiff American opposition. Second,
Washington was alarmed by Musharraf’s preference for deepening Pakistan-China bilateral
relations and forging nuclear cooperation; and more so when he offered Beijing naval
facilities at the Gwadar port on Balochistan’s Arabian Sea coast overlooking the entrance to
the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint through which passes approximately 30 per cent
of world’s energy supplies.

Perhaps the last straw was his success in gaining Observer Status for Pakistan in the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Russia and China are spearheading the SCO,
which includes four other countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan;
Iran and India are also Observers. The SCO is widely perceived as a rising eastern
counterweight to western security and economic groupings and Islamabad drifting towards
the SCO was simply unacceptable in Washington.

To rub salt into its wounds, Musharraf refused permission to interrogate Dr. AQ Khan and
firmly rejected Washington’s demands that NATO troops be allowed into the North West
Frontier Province (NWFP) to hunt down Osama bin Laden and his associates.

By early 2006 it was clear Washington was looking for nothing less than a pliable leader in
Islamabad, a firm political foothold in Pakistan and a Pakistani foreign policy that
complemented US strategic aims in Central Asia.

What perhaps angered Washington the most were actions Musharraf took to wind down the
‘war on terror’ within Pakistan.

Immediately after taking power, he outlawed three Islamic extremist groups and, after 9/11,
intensified military operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering
Afghanistan.

Washington would have gone along with Musharraf had he focussed on military operations
to curb Islamists. Military action alone cannot defeat guerrillas; but it can kill many of them
and in turn induce new recruits — well known points reiterated by William R Polk in Violent
Politics (2007) – so that the so-called ‘war on terror’ would not end any time soon.

That could supplement US Administrations’ assiduous manufacture of the ‘Islamic threat’

through the 1990s to launch an endless ‘war on terror’ — the New Cold War — to rescue
America’s permanent war economy. For after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US
economy (and by extension west European economies) faced perhaps its biggest crisis: the
‘Communist threat’ ceased to be credible; it could not be exploited to terrify the American
people into acquiescing to rising military expenditure that keeps wheels of the permanent
war economy rolling and to expanding the repressive security apparatuses.

So the Bush Administration deftly replaced the ‘Communist threat’ with the ‘Islamic threat’,
no doubt following Machiavelli’s famous advice in The Prince, that a wise ruler invents
enemies and then slays them in order to control his own subjects. The apparently
counterproductive bombings, arrests, torture, kidnappings and disappearances (sanitised as
Extraordinary Rendition) carried out by US forces while the CIA covertly funded, armed and
supported Islamists are intended not to eliminate the ‘Islamic threat’ but to contain it within
manageable limits and to spawn the next generation of ‘terrorists’.

Sometimes, plans go awry; ‘culling’ may not contain the resistance, as seen in Afghanistan
from time to time. Nevertheless, the strategy is to ‘feed terrorism’ and simultaneously ‘cull
terrorists’ so that the perpetual New Cold War oils America’s moribund permanent war
economy.

Musharraf, however, did not play ball. He complemented military force to defeat Islamists
with political initiatives.

He signed a peace treaty with tribal elders in North Waziristan (within FATA) to marginalise
the Islamists. To combat the Islamists’ religious ideology, he promoted ‘enlightened
moderation’, a veiled reference to secularism and tolerance. Musharraf’s vision of a secular
Pakistan has its roots in exposure to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s legacy when he attended
school in Ankara during his father’s diplomatic posting to Turkey. In fact, after taking power
in Pakistan he often held up Ataturk as his role model. He planned to ‘wean away’ the people
from the ‘extremists’ through education is how he described his approach to this writer.
Towards this end, he introduced educational reforms and re-wrote school history text books;
enacted laws protecting women’s rights and diluted Islamic laws against women; and he
liberalised the media. To deny Islamists their traditional rallying cry — Kashmir — he opened
path breaking negotiations with India to remove that arrow from the Islamists’ quiver.

When Musharraf skilfully combined military operations against Islamists with a political
front promoting secularism to ideologically disarm them, the US administration saw red. By
secularising Pakistani society over time Musharraf would de-fang the ‘Islamic threat’ within
Pakistan and extricate the country out of the contrived orbit of ‘war on terror’.

That would greatly diminish Washington’s leverage to intervene in the country to distance
Islamabad from Beijing and exploit energy resources abundantly found in Balochistan and,
in the long run, perhaps derail US administration’s well laid plans to bring Afghanistan to
heel and to dominate Central Asia and its oil-rich Caspian Sea basin.

But Musharraf was in no mood to back down. So the Bush Administration slipped regime
change into gear. Taking advantage of his missteps, the anti-Musharraf media blitz, NGO and
student mobilisations, lawyers agitations, protests by political parties and civil society
organisations seemingly coming from all directions in fact displayed a fantastic degree of
organisation, coordination and financing clearly beyond the ken of the fratricidal activists
and often ad hoc institutions and never witnessed before in the country. Very likely they will
not be seen again either; indeed later the activists were singularly incapable of organising any
significant agitation when three women were buried alive for defying their parents’ choice of
husbands. The manoeuvres against Musharraf bear uncanny resemblances to organised
‘people’s power’ the CIA unleashed during ‘colour revolutions’ and upheavals against Hugo
Chavez.

The Bush Administration began reaping the rewards of unseating Musharraf within 24 hours
of his resignation. Chief of Army Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani travelled to Kabul to meet NATO
and Afghan commanders on 19 August. About 10 days later Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs
of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen informed a Pentagon news conference on 28 August that
Kayani and his lieutenants held a ’secret meeting’ with their US counterparts on a US aircraft
carrier, reminiscent of American gun boat diplomacy in Latin America and unthinkable in
Pakistan under Musharraf’s watch..

Mullen touchingly chronicled how he ‘learned to trust’ Kayani and bent over backwards to
emphasise that Kayani is no American puppet, that Kayani’s ‘principles and goals are to do
what’s best for Pakistan.’ But a few sections of the US media, weaned on decades of
Pentagon-speak from the debacle in Vietnam to the illegal invasion of Iraq, saw through the
verbal obfuscation. And when a reporter pointedly queried Mullen whether Kayani’s ‘goal for
Pakistan also aligned a hundred per cent with the US goal’, the Admiral waffled: ‘[Kayani]
knows his country a whole lot better than we do. And again, I just think that’s where he is,
that’s where he’ll stay.’ Translation: US administration has got Kayani on tight leash.

And to maintain there is no substantial change from Musharraf’s policies, Kayani’s

spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas and Mullen alleged the meetings had been arranged
several weeks earlier, when Musharraf was President, to facetiously imply he had approved
the contacts.

The import of ‘coordination’ between American, NATO, Afghan and Pakistan militaries will
become clearer over the next weeks and months. For now the suspicion is unavoidable that
the US Administration has at long last begun frog-marching Pakistan into the US-created
Afghan quagmire to further destabilise the country and justify intervention.

Musharraf had resolutely opposed precisely this eventuality. He rejected US demands that
the Pakistani army assist NATO forces in Afghanistan. He underlined the country will not
repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the 1980s when it got embroiled in America’s war in
Afghanistan against the then Soviet Union, for which the Pakistani people continues to pay a
heavy price. Rather, he insisted his army will fight only Pakistan’s war within Pakistan’s
borders.

The consequences of the PPP leadership following the US into the Afghan quagmire will soon
be evident. Already, within 16 days of Musharraf’s resignation, US forces carried out the first
ground assault in Angoor Adda area within Pakistan’s borders — which Musharraf had
disallowed — with the connivance of the new leadership. Obviously there is more to come
since the Bush Administration has eagerly caricatured the Pakistan-Afghanistan border as
‘The New Frontier’ in the New Cold War.

For the moment, there is great euphoria among Pakistani liberals over the presumed ‘return
to democracy’. The comments by Ayesha Tanmy Haq are typical: ‘We have removed a
dictator by the citizenry showing that real power lies with them.’ The hapless liberals have yet
to discover Late Neo-colonialism and its devious manoeuvres for regime change; they have in
fact effectively legitimised them by opposing Musharraf. They are agonisingly unaware of the
labyrinthine geo-politics and economic imperatives underlying the New Cold War. They are
 blissfully going along with the collaborationist leaders who are bartering away the country’s
future for the proverbial pieces of silver.

Aqif (Affiliate Secret)

March 8, 2009 at 10:11 am

Hye..nice information you have there. thanks for sharing