- Joined
- Feb 23, 2009
- Messages
- 5,419
- Likes
- 1,001
Afghan TV blurs Quaid-e-Azam’s face, viewers 'hurt'
Thursday, March 19, 2009
PESHAWAR: A Kabul-based Afghan TV channel blurred Quaid-e-Azam’s face during the telecast of a Pushto drama, hurting the sentiments of Pakistani and Afghan viewers, they told Daily Times on Wednesday.
The channel, Shamshad TV, telecast a Pakistani Pashto TV drama on Monday. In one of the scenes, Quaid-e-Azam’s picture was shown on a wall with the face blurred which hurt the feelings of Pakistani and Afghan viewers’ alike they said.
“A famous (Pakistani) Pashto TV artist, Ismail Shahid, was acting as a school principal in the drama and Quaid-e-Azam’s portrait was shown hung there which was blurred. It was a great insult to the founder of Pakistan,” they said.
Asked how they recognised it was Quaid-e-Azam’s face when it was blurred, Shamshad TV viewers said, “On such a drama set showing a government organisation, Quaid-e-Azam’s portrait is always hanging as a mark of respect. That’s what convinced us that Shamshad TV had insulted the Pakistani nation’s feelings by blurring the face of Quaid-e-Azam,” the viewers said. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\19\story_19-3-2009_pg7_19
Thursday, March 19, 2009
PESHAWAR: A Kabul-based Afghan TV channel blurred Quaid-e-Azam’s face during the telecast of a Pushto drama, hurting the sentiments of Pakistani and Afghan viewers, they told Daily Times on Wednesday.
The channel, Shamshad TV, telecast a Pakistani Pashto TV drama on Monday. In one of the scenes, Quaid-e-Azam’s picture was shown on a wall with the face blurred which hurt the feelings of Pakistani and Afghan viewers’ alike they said.
“A famous (Pakistani) Pashto TV artist, Ismail Shahid, was acting as a school principal in the drama and Quaid-e-Azam’s portrait was shown hung there which was blurred. It was a great insult to the founder of Pakistan,” they said.
Asked how they recognised it was Quaid-e-Azam’s face when it was blurred, Shamshad TV viewers said, “On such a drama set showing a government organisation, Quaid-e-Azam’s portrait is always hanging as a mark of respect. That’s what convinced us that Shamshad TV had insulted the Pakistani nation’s feelings by blurring the face of Quaid-e-Azam,” the viewers said. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\19\story_19-3-2009_pg7_19