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Musharraf Farmhose Power Scandal proved wrong

June 21, 2009

investigative journalism

Sunday, June 21, 2009
According to recent stories in your paper regarding Chak Shahzad farmhouses, a list of 34 persons charged with some sort of default or wrong tariff has been released by IESCO. Former president Pervez Musharraf’s name is conspicuous by its absence from this list. What happened to the ‘unearthing’ of a scandal about the former president’s farmhouse that was given extensive coverage in your columns? There were stories about free transformers, wrong tariffs and the most laughable of all, the installation of FATA meter at the ex-president’s farmhouse. All these allegations of your reporter seemed nothing more than his fantastical opinions portrayed as facts as not a single allegation in this series of stories has held ground. When one allegation is refuted, your ‘investigative’ journalist, instead of defending the first one, as someone who has done his research should be able to do, cooks up another allegation which is proved wrong the next day. Is this the understanding of investigative journalism of The News?

It is expected of the largest media group in Pakistan to at least be able to differentiate between hearsay journalism and investigative journalism.

Hammad Husain

Architect of Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse, Chak Shahzad,

Islamabad

Source:http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=184179

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2 comments

  1. Hello Sir, Iam basit ali pasha from islamabad, From F-6/1 , street number 36, living very near to your pasdar-e-pakistan secretariate. sir i would like to assure you, that all the youngsters of Islamabad city,will support you, thats my promise to you, and ill like to stay in touch with you. Sir i want your current address or your official email address, so that i can share my views with you.
    Thanks sir
    Pakistan Zinda-Abaad, Pasdar-e-Pakistan Payeenda-Baad.


    • Dear Basit contact our office



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