Geo Asool

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / REFERENCES

The following people and organizations have at some point or the other helped create the ideas or the drafts that are included in GEO Asool. Many papers, drafts, discussions, debates, ideas and complaints from them have enabled GEO Asool to formulate. We are grateful to their time and concern. The credit behind GEO Asool if any is due to them and the complaints and errors are our responsibility alone.

1. Aaron Lobel
2. Abbas Nasir
3. Arif-ul-Haq
4. Abdul Qayyum
5. Abdul Rauf
6. Absar Alam
7. Adil Rashdi
8. Aftab Associates
9. Aftab Usman
10. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
11. Ahmed Qureshi
12. Aidan Patrick White
13. Aitzaz Ahsan
14. Akbar Khan
15. Ali Mirza
16. Aliya Salhuddin
17. Ameena Saiyid
18. Amir Liaquat Hussain
19. Aneeq Naji
20. Anjum Rasheed
21. Ansar Abbasi
22. Arif Naqvi
23. Asad Umar
24. Asma Chaudhry
25. Asma Shirazi
26. Atta-ul-Haq Qasmi – Columnist
27. Atul Phadnis
28. Ayesha Haroon
29. Azhar Abbas
30. Badar Ikram
31. Beena Sarwar
32. Bilal Munir Sheikh
33. Bilal Musharraf
34. British Broadcasting Corporation
35. David Fairman
36. David Hazinski
37. David Hoffman
38. Dr. Shahid Masood
39. Dr. Younis Butt
40. Ejaz Shafi Gillani
41. Ethical Journalism Network
42. Farrukh Saleem
43. Fouad Husain
44. General Munir Hafeez
45. Ghazi Salahuddin
46. Haamid N. Jaffer
47. Hamid Mir – Host, Geo TV
48. Hussain Haqqani
49. Iftikhar Ahmed
50. Imran Aslam
51. Imran Syed
52. Indian Broadcasting Foundation
53. Irfan Siddiqui
54. Ismail Jilani
55. Jawad Nazeer
56. Jugnu Mohsin
57. Kamran Khan
58. Ken Tiven
59. Khawar Naeem Hashmi
60. Maj. Gen. Ather Abbas
61. Maleeha Lodhi
62. Mariam Chugtai
63. Masoom Usmani
64. Mehmood Shaam
65. Mir Ibrahim Rahman
66. Mir Khalil ur Rahman
67. Mir Shakil ur Rahman
68. Moeed Pirzada
69. Mohammad Ali Mazhar
70. Mohammad Malik
71. Muaaz Ahsan
72. Mufti Muneeb
73. Mufti Rafi Usmani
74. Mufti Taqi Usmani
75. Muhammad Suleman
76. Mujahid Mansoori
77. Nadeem Qureshi
78. Najam Sethi
79. Nasir Baig Chugtai
80. Nazeer Leghari
81. News Broadcasters’ Association India
82. Noman Nabi
83. Osama Siddiqui
84. Owais Toheed
85. Pakistan Broadcasters’ Association Members
86. Pervez Rashid
87. Professor Bharat Anand
88. Professor Das
89. Professor Marshall Ganz
90. Professor Jim Hoopes
91. Professor Asim Khwaja
92. Professor Ronald Heiftz
93. Rahimullah Yousufzai
94. Sabeen Mehmood
95. Safdar Mehmood
96. Saleem Safi
97. Salman Danish Naseer
98. Samad Khurram
99. Sana Bucha
100. Shadab Tayyab
101. Shafqat Mahmood
102. Shahrukh Hassan
103. Shahzad Nawaz
104. Shoaib Mansoor
105. Sohail Ansar
106. Sohail Warraich
107. Sunil Lulla
108. Syed Babar Ali
109. The New York Times
110. Uday Shankar
111. Yousaf Baig Mirza

What People Say

Sharjeel Memon (Leader, PPP)

In my view a code of conduct is imperative for showing content to the general public; what they have and what will be its impact.

Raja Riaz (Opposition Leader, Punjab Assembly)

It is a good step. When GEO will practice it other media groups will certainly learn a lesson and they will also try to apply it.

Samina Khawar Hayat (Member PML-Q)

GEO practices as it says, ‘GEO Tou Aisay!’. I appreciate it.

Rana Arshad (MPA, PML-N)

GEO's effort will bring improvement in journalism and transparency will prevail because everything follows principles.

Zaheeruddin (Paliamentary Leader, PML-Q

It is a good endeavour and need of the moment. GEO has taken the right step forward.

Nazeer Naji (Columnist & Analyst)

It was a long-awaited need. It is a good initiative by GEO. GEO is the founder and it is the duty of big institutions to show the way. I appreciate you all because you fulfilled this need.

Shahbaz Sharif (Chief Minister, Punjab)

I appreciate GEO for creating this “Asool” and thank GEO and its members for adopting a unique idea which is worth commendable. It is an important and positive step and I hope more people will come forward.