I fired Talat Hussain: Shaheen Shehbai's response to Siddique Jan's statement

 

 

I fired Talat Hussain: Shaheen Shehbai's response to Siddique Jan's statement

 

 

Asked in the light of media censorship allegations against the current government during a private TV channel's program "In Focus", the young journalist and YouTuber Siddique Jan dismissed the notion that when there is a financial interest When it comes to stopping the news, the responsibility of journalism can be fulfilled, then why stopping any news in the national interest is called journalistic ban.

 

 

 

 

Citing an example, Siddique Jan said that if news came against Malik Riaz or his real estate business Bahria Town, the channels and journalists would stop it because it was in their financial interest but when against institutions or at the national level. If the government refuses to give any news that spreads defamation, it makes a fuss that the government has blocked the press and is not giving freedom of speech.

 

Criticizing senior journalist Syed Talat Hussain in this regard, Siddique Jan said that instead of distinguishing between right and wrong in journalism, he was only supporting anti-government propaganda. He said as evidence that Talat Hussain on September 20 Since then, no one has spoken or tweeted against the PDM and the parties involved.

 

 

 

In response, Talat Hussain started blabbering on about big issues related to journalism, constitution and principles, but he still did not say anything in response to Siddique Jan's claim.

 

Highlighting Talat Hussain's principled and elegant journalism, his old colleague Shaheen Shehbai said that he had heard Siddique Jan and Dawn's program. He was fired because he was sitting in the editor's chair by himself. There was no contract. He was becoming a scholar by talking thick and thick, but he did not answer the basic point of Siddique.

 

 

In response to Shaheen Shehbai's tweet, a user raised the question of who he had fired, to which he said it was Talat Hussain who was fired by Shaheen Shehbai as a group editor. Because the entire staff of The News English newspaper's office was protesting against him.

 

 

On the same issue, Shaheen Shehbai made another tweet and said that some time ago Talat Hussain had blocked him on Twitter because he was afraid to face the truth or did not dare to hear the truth