Do, teen tika do
This was what President Musharraf directed his supporters to do with Dawn’s London correspondent Ziauddin. So much for the freedom of media. President Musharraf’s outburst in London not only undermined his stature as a President of a sovereign country, but also exposed the weakness of him.
He was once a self-proclaimed champion of free media. He allegedly permitted licenses for plethora of private channels, and became famous for handling and accepting touch criticism and questions from the media persons. He used to attend the press briefings and talk shows frequently and he loved to give interviews. But then something bad happened, and it was more than visible after 9th of March last year.
President Musharraf started getting annoyed with the media covertly, and used back door channels to direct them. Then PEMRA was used heavily to curb the freedom of media, and at last channels were altogether banned from the Pakistani viewer ship.
President likes to talk to media and he likes the spotlight. But he should understand that not all journalists are like the anchorpersons of PTV, and not all the media is like them. I still think that whoever suggested him to take European tour, wasn’t really sincere to him.
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