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