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
Haseena Moin: The writer who dared to be different
Dramatist Haseena Moin, born in Kanpur and loved both in India and Pakistan for shows such as âTanhaiyaanâ and âDhoop Kinareyâ passed away recently. She had penned dialogues for Raj Kapoorâs âHennaâ
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Saadia Ahmed
In the subcontinent we have trouble calling people by their first names, unlike Americans. We like associating even the ones we are not related to by blood with our own family and those we love always go by a suffix, so did Haseena Moin. She was Aapa (the elder sister) to several generations of people in Pakistan.