Media watch: Geo, floods, fake degrees and Ramazan

Local print media has focused on the ongoing flood crisis. photo: APP

Media watch is a daily round-up of key articles featured on news websites, hand-picked by The Express Tribune web staff.

Dawn

Columnist Nadeem Farooq Paracha analyses the blockage of Geo following the ‘shoe incident’.

Exactly when or who gave the media, the mandate to become judge, jury and executioners?

The News

Journalist Ansar Abbasi highlights the HEC’s warning to ten universities which have to submit copies of Matriculation and Intermediate certificates of the MPs who graduated from the institutions.

Daily Times

A staff report on Daily Times focused on bank account holders lining up in droves to withdraw money from their accounts to avoid Zakat deduction this Ramazan.

The Nation

Javiad-ur-Rehman reports that “the government seems making mockery of the miseries of the flood-affected people as artificial institutions are being announced which have no existence on ground.”

Business Recorder

Ahmed Mukhtar reports that Pakistan is likely to lose 1-1.5percent of its GDP growth against its target of 4.5 percent due to devastation caused by floods.