Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Pakistan: A list of 19 journalists allegedly bribed by Malik Riaz

A record of payments allegedly made to 19 senior-journalists of Pakistan, by the Bahria Town owner Malik Riaz has surfaced on the social networking site Twitter, Aaj News reported. UPDATE: Mubasher Lucman finally speaks out; resigns via YouTube. UPDATE: Hamid Mir ready to present himself for accountability UPDATE: Hassan Nisar says that SC has taken on too many powerful enemies and that they should have finished the job when they had the chance to. UPDATE: Talat Hussain shreds Media-Gate issue to pieces; Mazhar Abbas questions the authenticity of the list. UPDATE: Dr. Shahid Masood’s quirky response to Bahria Town List accusations. UPDATE: Meher Bokhari explains the leaked footage; denies bribery allegations. UPDATE: Kamran Khan has denied the allegations brought forward against him. UPDATE: Nusrat Javed and Mushtaq Minhas deny bribery allegations. Nusrat claims Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) is planning a conspiracy against him. Renowned names of various news television anchors and journalists like Dr. Shahid Masood, Najam Sethi, Kamran Khan, Nusrat Javed, Meher Bokhari, Mubasher Lucman, Hamid Mir, Javed Chaudhry, Sana Bucha, Sohail Waraich and Asma Shirazi among a few others, are present in the lists below. An account of favors allegedly given to these journalists in shapes of money, cars and property etc is recorded in these trademarked letterheads of Bahria Town. Up till now, almost every accused journalist has questioned the authenticity of the list below, claiming its a fake document.

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