Uncensored, the former general manager of
Pakistan Television (PTV) late Burhanuddin Hasan writes that, the former Pakistani dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq (1977-88) was a keen TV viewer. According to Hasan, Zia would call various high ranking
PTV employees to discuss with them a show or a teleplay he had watched. He would share in detail his observations.
Hasan writes that the producers and playwrights that Zia often called, wondered whether the head of state and military chief spent all his evenings watching TV. Zia never threatened to put a stop to anything on TV that he disliked. But his ‘observations’ in this regard usually materialised in the shape of ‘advice’ issued to
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On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century - or even tried to stamp it out - are now run by avowedly religious leaders. God is Back shines a bright light on this huge, hidden world of faith, from televangelism in California to house churches in China. Since the Enlightenment, intellectuals assumed that modernization would kill religion - and that religious America is an oddity. But, as this book argues, America is becoming the norm. Above all, twenty-first century US religion is fuelled by an emphasis on competition and a personal, customer-driven approach to salvation. As market forces reshape the world, the tools of evangelism are now spreading everywhere. The global rise of faith will have a dramatic and far-reaching impact on our century. Its destabilizing effects can already be seen far from Iraq o
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