Islamabad, 16 September 2020:
Pakistan Cricket Board today signed a satellite broadcast deal for broadcast in Pakistan with PTV Sports and a further agreement to secure cable distribution with I-Media Communication Services. The agreements were signed in the presence of the Prime Minister who is the Patron of Pakistan Cricket Board. The broadcast deal will be for the 2020 to 2023 cycle.
The broadcasting arrangement is structured to provide for increasing revenues over the term of the cycle and PCB expects to earn in excess of US$200 million over the three year term.
The Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Ehsan Mani speaking at the occasion thanked the Patron for his unwavering support to PCB and the efforts of the Minister for Information Shibli Faraz and SAPM on Information Lt. General (Retd) Asim Bajwa not only for their support in getting the broadcasting arrangement finalised but their efforts in modernizing PTV Sports and its production capabilities as well as the digitalizing o
At Shamsi Studios in Korangi, Karachi, one of the final sets of Yasir Nawaz’s upcoming thriller Chakkar is being re-tweaked at the last moment. The eventual delay will shuffle their schedule, but that’s often a part of the production game, producer Nida Yasir tells me as she whizzes around coordinating and streamlining everything from actors to production hands.
A series of bright LED panels affixed far up the sides of the wall light up the ambience of the set, and harsher, more concentrated illumination lights up the talent. A track, and subsequently a Steadicam are prepped, as Neelum Muneer gets on the stage. Her co-stars for the next several days, however, aren’t Ahsan Khan or Yasir Nawaz; they’re a string of guest actors which we cannot reveal… for now.
Photos: Amjad Rasheed
“We’re not doing enough for our next generation,” Shaikh Amjad Rasheed tells me as our tea arrives. “We have a rich history of films and filmmakers, who unfortunately very few know about and even fewer appreciate today.”
Rasheed is the Chairman of the IMGC Group of companies (producers of edible oil brands, textile manufacturing mills, soaps, detergents, etc) whose media label, Distribution Club (DC), produces and distributes a lot of Pakistani motion pictures.
In fact, DC doesn’t say no to movies at all. Good, bad, ugly, atrocious, they all eventually find a distribution partner with DC, because Rasheed can’t say no to filmmakers. He once told me that if he doesn’t support Pakistani movies, who will? The least he can do is get them to the screens. Whether they work or not, that’s their own kismet, he says.
Prime Minister Imran Khan says he never asked his spokesperson Nadeem Chan to resign. The New York Times/File
Prime Minister Imran Khan believes all cabinet members must stick to decisions taken by the cabinet after thorough discussion or resign if they do not agree with the verdict, but that they cannot do opposition while sitting in the cabinet .
The premier expressed these views in an interview with
Bol News, broadcast on Friday, while talking about the resignation of his aide Nadeem Afzal Chan.
Chan had resigned as spokesperson to the prime minister on Wednesday, days after he posted a “rather meaningful” tweet suggesting he was ashamed at how the government had handled the aftermath of the brutal murder of 11 Shia Hazara coal miners in Balochistan s Mach area.