Maya Khan Terminated

Maya Khan and her entire team of the Morning show are being fired by Samaa TV because of the outrage that her raid on public parks caused amongst the people. Reportedly an online campaign against her suddenly catching unmarried couples dating, most of them without any consent or awareness of their parents, had resulted in this termination of contract.

How Maya Khan Fired?

When asked about the news being true, she accepted to reporters confirming that it is indeed the case. She herself put blame on other “rival media groups” which have campaigned against what she believes was her right to do.  Her rivals wanted to see her go and they just got that. She is disappointed about the fact that no one acknowledged the “good things” that she brought out through her show. She also refused to give unconditional apology that she was demanded.

Even a letter is available online where her termination has been expressed by the Samaa TV management. If what she believes is right and it highlighted something that is not acceptable in our culture, that is to deceive parents by not telling about one’s exact whereabouts, then she did what was the right thing to do. but she tried through her show to make a point that says DO NOT DO something that your parents will be hurt by.

If someone likes someone else, then they should first and foremost seek the consent of their parents. They should not go on hiding out in parks to get negative attention. There is a lesson to be learnt from her show. As to whether her being fired was the right move, the answer is absolutely not. As a media personality, she did what she thought she could through a media platform, which at the least should be looked upon as doing her job.

Maya Khan Fired

Maya Khan Fired

Apparently, firing Maya Khan, the head of the vigil-aunty brigade, along with her entire team is foremost success of the social media in the country.

A few days back, television viewers in Pakistan saw Maya Khan with a moral brigade, comprising elite-class aunties, raided a park in Karachi chasing dating couples.

Although it was not the first time people watched doing her something strange, it was the last episode proved to be the last straw for many others flagship morning shows.

Dating someone without a legal relationship is considered down upon in the Pakistani society and some girls have lost their lives by their family members due to this specific cause.

Maya Khan, the desperate for rating, has shown to be chased after couples as the show was on-aired live. It budged most part of the country and immediately social media users became active and bloggers started targeting Maya Khan and her channel.

Some of the social media activists termed her ‘chief of the moral police’ while a few compared her vigilantism to the ‘Lal Masjid mindset’.

Additionally, some Facebookers started uploading Maya Khan’s private snaps in which she was seen dancing with male friends, and doing hugs. A series of questions and mocks were also carried out along with these pictures, asking her to explain what was she doing with these people.

It seems that she wanted to boost the rating of her show by creating a new controversy but the water didn’t flow in a desired direction. A group of citizens started an online petition, urging upon Samaa TV’s management to instantly terminate her show.

People also started sending e-mails to Zafar Siddiqui, asking him to take notice of the issue and to off-air the show at the earliest. Ultimately, Maya Khan was fired from the TV channel after she refused to make an unconditional apology.

A famous BBC journalist commented, “If you have a mike and a camera in Pakistan, you are assistants to God on earth and can do whatever you like.” Not only journalist but owners and management of the TV channels sometimes also create controversies to get higher ratings.

However, the social media for the first time in Pakistan succeeded by compelling a private TV channel to close a notorious morning show off-air. Many critics believe that social media will assist the traditional media in forming a code of ethics in the near future.