Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has yet again emphasized the importance of the regulation of news after Reham Khan has tendered an apology to Zulfi Bukhari on order.
The minister took to his Twitter account and shared the judgment of apology tendered by Reham Khan, ex-wife of Prime Minister Imran Khan, to the former Adviser to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis, Zulfi Bukhari.
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The minister said when the government wants to bring such type of law in Pakistan, the media owners start a campaign against it in the disguise of an attack on freedom of speech.
Fawad Chaudhry said it has been proved once again that Reham Khan is a habitual liar.
برطانوی عدالتوں نے ریحام خان پر زلفی بخاری پر جھوٹےالزامات پر ہرجانے اور معافی مانگنے کا حکم دیا، اس طرح کا قانونی نظام پاکستان میں لانے کی کوشش کو آزادی اظہار کے خلاف کہ کر میڈیا مالکان مہم شروع کر دیتے ہیں، بہرحال ریحام کا جھوٹا ہونا ایک بار پھر ثابت ہوا دراصل وہ عادی جھوٹی ہے pic.twitter.com/D3voVXaC6e
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) October 15, 2021
Earlier, Zulfi Bukhari had approached the London High Court over eight charges of benefitting from the sale of Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel owned by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in the Reko Diq case.
The former BBC weather broadcaster Reham had uploaded a YouTube video in December 2019 in which she had alleged that the ex-adviser had a ‘personal interest’ in the sale of the national asset.
She had also posted four tweets in the same context.
Referencing the same case, the information minister yet again pushed for a law against fake news in Pakistan which has been vehemently opposed by the media outlets.