Today's blog is based on true gossips and my Gulabi Angraizi... Enjoyyyyyyyy!!!
To begin with: Gossip #1, King Khan was on vacations and the rumour about his resignation was on the peak... According to Hazraaat's source at Geo the Chairman of Jang Group "traced" Mr. Khan in the first place and the moment he got to know that Mr. Khan is in UK he flew to UK and met him there... The negotiations took place there and from there Mr. Shakeel ur Rahman (MSR) called their guys at Geo News to publish an add on Monday's Newspaper and the tag line suggested was "Aaj Kamran Khan ke saath aik baar phir Geo News pe"...
Gossip #2: Mr. Azhar Abbas the Managing Director Geo News is on leave from the first week of July and to be precise from July 2, 2013.. He was supposed to fly for his annual leaves with his family on the 10th of July but he didn't... Some people say he stayed because he never had a plan to go abroad for vacations this year and had to join Bol Network during his leaves and some people say he never was on the leave he has simply resigned and stopped coming to work from first week of july... Hazraaat's source at Geo told me that the day his leaves were started that was the day the management was told that he'll not come back or rejoin his office... But then Mir Ibrahim Rahman requested him to please come back and he joined office for a couple days after July 10, 2013... I was also told that MIR met Azhar Abbas a couple of weeks back at hotel in KHI but the negotiations could not get to any conclusion... And Mr. Abbas is most likely joining Bol Network right after eid holidays..
Gossip #3: Mr. Ansar Naqvi the Controller Input Geo News resigned a couple of days before eid... Mr. Ansar Naqvi used to be the number 2 of the channel and has been associated with Jang Group for 20+ years... His resignation is based on some statement or comment passed by Dr. Aamir Liaqat Hussain regarding the employees of Geo... Mr. Naqvi was the one who managed everything at Geo News while Mr. Azhar Abbas left Geo for the 1st time and joined Dawn in December 2006... Ansar Naqvi was one of the Azhar loyalist at that time but he never went to Dawn News and stayed back at Geo... Now the question is that is Mr. Naqvi also going with Mr. Azhar Abbas or he just threw his resignation to gage his position in post Azhar scenario??? But according to Hazraaat's source at Geo, management has not shown any interest in talking to Mr. Naqvi regarding his resignation... Which again creates some question marks in my mind... But the next bit of this write up would give you some new directions...
So the Gossip #4: on the 27th Ramzan which was August 6, 2013 a group of KHI Bureau reporters gathered at the 5th floor of Jang Building (which is known as Geo corporate floor) in front of Director HR Mr. Zulfiqar Ali's cabin and Mr. Faysal Aziz Khan Bureau Head KHI addressed his team in the presence of almost all the directors (in their cabins) of the network... The issue was the delayed salaries of the employees... The protest lasted for a few minutes and then after Mr. Khan's speech the crowd dispersed calmly... The issue which Mr. Khan had to take up was pending appraisals but Mr. Khan just discussed and kept his speech salaries focused which raised a few questions in his team mates' mind... However all the people work for Geo they know that salaries always get transferred before eid no matter what plus Mr. Khan is been associated with Geo News for more than ten years and must be knowing this like all others... Then what was the point after going to the 5th floor and deliver a speech which was not needed??? Okay and then after a couple of hours he announced that the he just got a call from the top management and the salaries will be transferred by the chaand raat... Now what Hazraaat understood is that management is actually wanting Mr. Khan to take over as Director News Geo News in post Azhar scenario and that's the reason no one from the top management shown any interest in talking to Mr. Ansar Naqvi... And that's the reason the management provided a chance to Mr. Khan to show his strength to his team... Plus there was another news of Faysal Aziz Khan's resignation on the 28th Ramzan but that was also a false and planted news as Mr. Khan was appeared live in Dr. Aamir Liaqat's iftaar transmission the very next day of his resignation on the 29th of Ramzan... And there were no "bulk resignations" from either KHI Bureau or any other dept of Geo News!!!
However in this scenario Geo News Management should never ignore the services & loyalties of Mr. Ansar Naqvi though Mr. Khan suites the Director News position and according to Hazraaat's sources at Geo the lobbying is all done for Mr. Khan... In post Azhar scenario at Geo News Mr. Muaaz Ahsan Director Programs Geo News is the only candidate left to take over the whole channel as Managing Director if everything goes on merit.. He has got few years of content management and productions experience.. He's a great media strategist and one of the best Brand Managers of the industry....
No idea what's going to happen next but if you really want to get the answers to your questions then you all have to scream with me "Bol Geo Bol"...
Disclaimer: The writer is simply a Gossips Making Entity and not a News Breaking Company... So don't trust the information you have just gone through... Thanks you for your time!!! ;)
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