Monitoring Desk: The whole nation was watching the televisions in Pakistan. Experts were sitting in PTV News transmission on May 10-11 night when just after Fajr prayer, the senior Anchorperson of Pakistan Television Corporation, Dr Sajjad Bokhari, while sitting with the iconic character of the PTV screen, Zubair Ahmed Saddique, was at a high emotional pitch because the whole nation was in War Mode. Everyone was waiting for Pakistan’s response to Indian aggression.
Dr Sajjad Bokhari who is known for his high pitched nationalism and he had been fighting Pakistan’s war even on Indian media screens was fortunate to document the history—Yes the time was up around 04.10 am when Dr Sajjad Bokhari with his full loud and excited voice announced “Congratulations—Pakistan has launched “Operation Bunyan al Marsous” to give a dust licking defeat to India—It was a historic moment for all of the nation and Allah granted this honour to Dr Sajjad Bokhari to announce this news. What a day it was.
The whole saga of the night has been explained by senior journalist and writer Malik Manzoor Ahmed in his article titled “Pak- Bharat Kashidgi—Pakistani media ka Zimiadarana Kardar (Indo-Pak standoff and reasonable conduct of Pakistani media). Malik Manzoor Ahmed is a senior journalist who has documented over three decades of political as well as diplomatic history of Pakistan, and he was one of the panelists of this historic transmission, while other panelists included senior analysts and author Agha Iqrar Haroon and senior journalist Irfan Malik.
In his article Malik Manzoor highly appreciated the role of Federal Minister of Information Attaulllah Tarrar, Secretary Information and MD PTV Ambreen Jan, Director Current Affairs Ch Saleem and Director News Dr Haroon Ellahi Toor for conceiving, executing and broadcasting a responsible, mature, credible and emotionally charged marathon transmission that has been appreciated global media that is givng example of this transmission how Pakistan’s state run media provided credible and correct information about the entire operation without polluting with propaganda while Indian television screens were providing only lies. This 40-hour marathon transmission of PTV News has placed Pakistan’s media on a high pedestal globally, and the best of the best international journalists are citing PTV News transmission as a textbook example of how a mature and credible media can win the war of narrative.
