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LAHORE, Pakistan: The Punjab government has announced to take a legal action against the senior journalist Fahd Husain and Dawn News for attributing a false statement to the Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar.
In his article titled “RED ZONE FILES: Who’s fighting the Corona war?” which was published in Dawn News on Thursday, Fahd Hussain depicted a gloomy state of affairs in the Punjab province and doubted the competence of the provincial authorities especially the Chief Minister in tackling the impending Coronavirus Crises.
Fahd Hussain narrated that how Usman Buzdar baffled everyone when in a recent briefing on the COVID-19 Outbreak held in Lahore, he asked an immature question from experts that “Yeh corona kaat-ta kaisay hai? (how does this corona bite)?”
Responding to the article, the Punjab government termed the above statement attributed to the Chief Minister Usman Buzdar in Dawn’s article as ‘absolutely rubbish, baseless & fake’.
“It is sad and unfortunate that in these testing times some people find the opportunity to publish their imagination as news,” the statement from the Punjab government said.
The provincial government also announced to take a legal action against the author of the article Fahd Husain and the Publisher Dawn News for their irresponsible and unprofessional behavior.
It also urged the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) and regulatory bodies to take a strict action against such malpractices, as we cannot allow anyone to create panic and push their ulterior agendas in these testing times.
آج @dawn_com میں @Fahdhusain نے اپنے کالم میں وزیر اعلی پنجاب @UsmanAKBuzdar کے خلاف انتہائی جھوٹ اور لغو جملے تحریر کیے ہیں جو کہ کرونا وائرس کے خلاف جنگ کے موقع پر سیاہ صحافت کا علمبردار فرد ہی کر سکتا ھے۔ ھم اسکے خلاف قانونی چارہ جوئی کا حق محفوظ رکھتے ہیں۔۔!!!
— Fayazulhasan chohan (@Fayazchohanpti) March 19, 2020
کورونا وائرس جیسی وباء جس نے پوری دنیا کو ہلا کے رکھ دیا ہے لیکن اس سب میں بھی میڈیا کے کچھ عناصر اس قدر غیر ذمہ داری کا ثبوت دے رہے ہیں.
ایک طرف حکومت روزمرہ زندگی کو panic سے بچانے کی کوشش کر رہی اور دوسری طرف ایسے عناصر عوام کی زندگی مشکل بنانے کی سازش میں سرگرم ہیں. https://t.co/C4jyM0XMnV— Musarrat Cheema (@MusarratCheema) March 19, 2020
ہماری قانونی ٹیم اس معاملے کا جائزہ لے رہی اور جلد لیگل نوٹس تیار کر کے ان کو بھیجا جائے گا. اس موقع پر ملک میں انتشار پھیلانے یا جعلی خبروں کو برداشت نہیں کیا سکتا.
— Musarrat Cheema (@MusarratCheema) March 19, 2020
Lawyers are drafting the Legal Notice
Will share the draft.
Its cheap even by @Fahdhusain and @dawn_com‘s standards. https://t.co/VVpMWrFIXY— Azhar (@MashwaniAzhar) March 19, 2020