Protesters direct reparation from PTV for ‘humiliating’ Pashtuns during Eid transmission
Activists and domestic leaders criticism outward a Peshawar Press Club on Monday on Jul 3, 2017. PHOTO: PPI
PESHAWAR: Rights activists and domestic leaders staged a criticism in Peshawar on Monday perfectionist an reparation from PTV for airing calm “mocking” Pashtuns during its Eid transmission.
The protesters, who had gathered outside a Peshawar Press Club, also demanded that the state-run broadcaster should glow a staff concerned in running a “humiliating” square of poetry against Pashtuns on its show Hansna Mana Hai.
They urged a Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to take required stairs to stop secular profiling and stereotyping on inhabitant and private TV channels.
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Awami National Party (ANP) Central General Secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain, heading Pashto academician Dr Abasin Yousafzai and Dr Said Alam Mehsud led a demonstrators, who carried placards reading,“No to racism, no to intolerance, criticism opposite PTV.”
The protesters warned that they would record petitions in justice and also theatre a sit-in outward a Parliament House if their final were not met.
Jawad Hasan Jawad, a poet, by his verses in a comedy communication shred of a show, had mocked explosve blasts in Pashtun areas. He also ridiculed Pashtuns and compared them with bootleg trade.
As if that were not enough, a producer compared Pashtuns to sheep, saying, “They smell like sheep… showering once a year.”
Poet Jawad Hasan Jawad “mocking” Pashtuns on a uncover Hansna Mana Hai aired during PTV’s Eid special transmission. PHOTO: Screengrab
Shafeeq Gigyani, who played a heading purpose in organising a rally, pronounced they were protesting against a stigmatising and stereotyping of Pashtuns from a height of a inhabitant broadcaster.
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“We are happy that PTV and sovereign supervision officials have taken notice and positive us that despotic movement would be taken opposite those who had authorised such calm to be aired on national television,” he added.
ANP’s Mian Iftikhar Hussain said such humiliation could not be tolerated.
“This has been going on on private TV channels for a prolonged time though we weren’t awaiting PTV to atmosphere such content,” he added. “We have done sacrifices for a nation in a quarrel opposite militants.”
Dr Abasin Yousafzai, while addressing a protesters, pronounced a degrading poetry was not humour, though racism.
“Who has given a producer [Jawad Hasan Jawad] a looseness to ridicule Pashtuns on inhabitant TV?” he added.
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Dr Yousafzai pronounced a assembly in a uncover were clapping and applauding a “so-called’” producer for creation fun of Pashtuns and that should also be condemned.
Said Alam Mehsud, a authority of Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehrik, pronounced the poet alone was not obliged for what had happened but all those around him including a PTV staff too were to censure for it.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1449409/protesters-demand-apology-ptv-humiliating-pashtuns-eid-transmission/