Geo Television is aiming to provide a platform for debate
on issues that concern our society and that have divided our people
and their views over many years. Geo is not taking a side to an issue
and maintains its balanced and independent editorial policy while
also taking on its role of social responsibility
The Hudood Ordinance was enforced in 1979 during the
rule of Gen. Zia ul Haq. Since its inception there has been a great
debate on the Hudood laws ? a debate that has involved people belonging
to all walks of life ? religious scholars, lawyers and human rights
activists. The debate continues, without any resolution, till this
day.
GEO aims to bridge the gaps that have been created within the Pakistani
society and bring people together to the same platform to discuss
matters with knowledge, tolerance and integrity.GEO will focus its
programming and discussion on the most controversial law within the
Hudood, which is the Zina Ordinance. There is one group of people
who believe that the injunctions within the Ordinance are in accordance
with the Quran and Sunnah. There is another group that believes that
the Hudood Ordinance is man made which has lead to a misrepresentation
of Islam
We bring both sides of the debate on to our platform
so that audiences can be exposed to all sides of the argument. GEO?s
objective, as always, is to empower people to think and talk about
issues that we may otherwise choose to ignore. To do justice to our
role and our audiences, we have provided space for religious scholars
from all maqtab-e-fiqr to share their knowledge and their views on
the subject
Stay with GEO to hear more on the issue through special
editions of its popular programmes like Pachas
Minute, Alif,
Jawabdeh
and Capital
Talk plus special
programming aimed at asking the questions that will make all of
us THINK
Hudood Ordinance is presented as a holy law which cannot
be touched. Do you agree with this premise?
Zara Sochieye (THINK)
is a formal drive initiated by GEO Television
Network that attempts to highlight issues
that promote and/or represent imbalance
and injustice in our society and have
divided us for years. As the name suggests
Zara Sochieye will include all such
issues that have become so integrated
into our society that we have stopped
thinking about them. GEO, therefore,
aims to explore new dimensions of an
existing problem and create a platform
for creative thinking and discourse
between diverse people and ideas
