Following the citizens’ campaign expressing outrage at a Samaa TV morning show’s intrusive and unethical programming, and the host Maya Khan’s refusal to apologise unconditionally, the channel is taking her show off the air and terminating her contract. BELOW: CEO Samaa TV Zafar Siddiqi’s letter in response to our email to him yesterday. This is [...]
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:05 AM, <Zafar Siddiq> wrote: Dear All I have travelled to Khi to look at this matter and yesterday Maya apologised in her program for this. I can assure this will never happen again. Samaa is a progressive channel. There are certain other directives that have been put into place as [...]
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