After a short trip to the United Kingdom and doing irrelevant shows from there and airing reruns of older episodes, Khara Sach’s delusional anchor returned to the Land of the Pure to do two shows on Thar. But the calm wasn’t to last. No sooner had Mubasher Lucman recovered from jet leg, he was back doing irrelevant shows full of nonsense that only he himself understood.
On March 12 his show was about – only he knows because we couldn’t decipher it. But we will try our best to explain it to you, so here goes.
Of course, his obsession continues with the picture of a rival media tycoon that is pasted to an empty chair on his set, which he talks to through the show. It is amazing how Lucman loves this gentleman because he (Lucman) manages to bring his name up in every other sentence.
One would have thought that after returning from the UK the show would be revamped but that was not going to happen. And the custodian of nonsense came back in full force and began his usual rant over useless topics that no one cares about.
After two shows on the Thar issue, Lucman’s third show was on some scam that he tried his best to link to the Jang Group’s newspapers because they had carried some ads. Unfortunately for him, the guests on the show didn’t blame Jang for the scam. The guests clearly said that they had read the ads in the newspapers but the people they contacted were the ones who fooled them into getting stuck in the scam. They added that they had been foolish to trust these people and give them money.
Failing to ignite propaganda against the Jang Group, Lucman got another nonsensical topic of fake universities in the country – not a new scam – but once again the guests revealed that they were aware of what they were getting into.
When this failed, Lucman suddenly revealed he would “reveal” something “shocking” that would implicate Mir Shakeel. But when he returned he had nothing.
Although he highlighted grave crimes against humanity of forced rapes of Indian Muslim females in UP, India and the brutal killings of the male relatives of the females raped, the logic behind suddenly talking about these wasn’t clear.
Lucman said that the Indian authorities had claimed that these incidents occurred after clashes between Indian Muslim and Hindus citizens. And last we check UP is still a part of India, therefore this is India’s internal matter, even if it is a extremely painful matter that should not go unpunished.
Pakistan can only condemn these incidents and protest but cannot do anything else. It is up to the government of UP and India to tackle this issue and bring the criminals to book.
This has nothing to do with any peace initiative between two countries, in this case Pakistan and India. It is a domestic matter of India – clashes between Indian citizens belonging to two different religions. Nothing to do with Pakistan!
Lucman then highlighted similar atrocities in Kashmir, which are painful and extremely condemnable. And Pakistan has always raised its voice against these crimes against the people of Kashmir. But Pakistan can only condemn and protest these incidents and try to make the international community see what is happening in Kashmir as it has in the past.
The best thing that Mubasher Lucman could do is focus on issues at home; try and improve the content of his own show and stop wasting his channels precious air time and resources on nonsensical topics to be discussed on his show.
Instead of talking about a lot of disconnected issues in a futile attempt to defame the Geo and Jang Group, Lucman would have got more ratings if he had picked a topic more likely to get viewers. He could have for example focussed on Karachi’s gang war problem and the deaths of 14 people who had been killed the same day (March 12) in Lyari.
If he was serious to do a show, he could have pegged the show on the Lyari incident and questioned the authorities on the inability to cleanse Lyari despite the continuous operation in the city for the last seven months.
But then it seems it is asking too much of Lucman to develop a talk show on the real issues – he couldn’t have done it since he lacks the years of experience and thought process that comes when one works as a journalist.
Lucman feels safer highlighting non-issues that make no sense to anyone and thus his show goes (painfully) on and on at the cost of the viewers’ patience and his channel’s money.
محسن پاکستان ڈاکٹر عبدالقدیر خان نے کہا ہے کہ پاکستان کو ایسے تعلیمی اداروں کی ضرورت نہیں جہاںایسے لوگ پیدا کیے جارہے ہوں جنہیں’’قل ھو اللہ‘‘ بھی نہ آتی ہو۔ ان خیالات کا اظہار انہوں نے گزشتہ روز یہاں وائز اسکول اینڈ کالجز کی سالانہ تقسیم انعامات کی تقریب سے خطاب کے دوران کیا۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ پاکستان کی نظریاتی اساس کو مضبوط بنانے کےلیے تعلیمی اداروں کو بنانا وقت کی اہم ضرورت ہے اور اس سلسلے میں نجی تعلیمی اداروں کو اپنا بھرپور کردار ادا کرنا ہو گا۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ سرکاری تعلیمی ادارے اپنی افادیت کھو چکے ہیں۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ انگریزی تعلیم دینے والے ادارےایسے لوگ اور سیاستدان پیدا کررہے ہیں جنہیں بد قسمتی سے ’’قل ھو اللہ ‘‘ بھی پڑھنا نہیں آتی ہے۔ قبل ازیں انہوں نے وائز اسکول اینڈ کالجز کے ہونہار طلبہ و طالبات میں طلائی اور کانسی کے میڈلز تقسیم کیے جبکہ بہترین کارکردگی کا مظاہرہ کرنے والی اساتذہ میں تعریفی شیلڈ بھی تقسیم کی گئیں۔ بعد ازاں ’’جنگ‘‘ سے گفتگو کرتے ہوئے انہوں نے کہا کہ ایک نام نہاد اینکرپرسن جو کل تک ہالی ڈے ان ہوٹل کی لابی میں لوگوں کے مہمانوں سے رابطے کرواتا تھا اور اب جنگ جیسے ادارے کو بے بنیاد پروپیگنڈے کے ذریعے بدنام کر رہا ہے جس کا پردہ چاک کرنا بھی صحافی برادری کی ذمہ داری ہے۔
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