ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) has asked PEMRA to take stringent action against TV channels airing fabricated news.
According to the letter written by Secretary General PPP, Parliamentarians Farhatullah Babar, addressed to Chairman PEMRA,
TV channels in particular ‘Channel 92’ are airing factually wrong and fictitious news. The letter says that Asif Ali Zardari and Ms. Faryal Talpur appeared before the FIA investigation team in their office in G-13 Islamabad today which was fictitiously covered by ‘Channel 92’.
The letter reads that “The channel has aired an imaginary and totally wrong report. It is not correct that Mr. Asif Zardari was asked some questions about the Zardari Group of Companies. At the outset the investigators were emphatically told that Mr. Zardari had nothing to do with the Zardari Group of Companies since becoming President of Pakistan in 2008. Any illegality having taken place at any point of time in the affairs of the Company was also denied. As a matter of fact in the FIR, Mr. Zardari and Ms. Talpur are witnesses and not the accused”.
The letter also reads that “It is also wrong to say that both Mr. Zardari and Ms. Faryal Talpur were handed over questionnaires. No such questionnaires were given to them today and even Senator Farooq Naek who is the focal person for Mr. Zardari and Ms. Faryal Talpur is the matter of investigation of the case was not given any questionnaire.”
Farhatullah Babar further wrote that the report given by ‘Channel 92’ has created serious misconception about the events which took place, it vitiated public opinion and calls for a blatant media trial. It is also against the observations of Honourable Supreme Court which says that no such reports about investigation process could be aired or published, wrote Farhatullah Babar.
Published in Daily Times, August 28th 2018.
