British-American broadcaster Mehdi Hasan could not stop his laughter when PML-N leader Hina Parvez Butt claimed that former prime minister Imran Khan paid for an interview with Hasan for his media company ‘Zeteo’.
“‘Paid’ on the post below means it’s a post only for paid subscribers to Zeteo,” he said while reacting to the Butt’s social media post on X on Wednesday.
The PML-N leader shared a screenshot of the wesbite link with the caption: Take the money and give (paisay lo interview do).
Hasan replied that Butt, who belongs to the ruling party, was pushing a conspiracy theory that he was “paid” to do my interview with Khan.
“Imagine being this ignorant & conspiratorial… & elected! Lol,” Hasan said.
“Pretty sure that if there was a big conspiracy involving Imran Khan paying Zeteo (!) to do an interview with him, we wouldn’t stick… ‘PAID’ at the top in plain sight to give it all away,” he added.
Earlier this year, Hasan launched a new publication called Zeteo, containing video, podcasts and text journalism, more than a month after he quit the US news channel MSNBC on the live show.