Ishaq Dar Carved Up on Twitter After BBC Interview
PML-N official looked flummoxed, unable to defend the corruption allegations that has long been associated with him
WEB DESK: Pakistan’s Former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar must be regretting to accept an interview offer by HardTalk, a show hosted by BBC journalist, Stephen Sackur.
The ‘carping’ journalist who has interviewed hundreds of international figures and managed to take a lead over them repeated the same when interviewing Dar.
The snippets of the interview were shared on different social media platforms with Pakistanis making fun of the former minister and relative of PML-Chairman Nawaz Sharif.
#IshaqDar and #StephenSackur top trended on Twitter in Pakistan just a few hours after the interview aired.
During the interview, the PML-N official looked flummoxed, unable to defend the corruption allegations that has long been associated with him.
The interview caused a stir in Pakistan which was even recognized by the Sackur himself.
My interview with former Finance Minister @MIshaqDar50 seems to be causing quite a stir in #Pakistan.
Well worth watching the whole interview if you can… @BBCHARDtalk on @BBCWorld https://t.co/PAuyjw6EsP— Stephen Sackur (@stephensackur) December 1, 2020
Dar said that Nawaz Sharif was struggling for democracy and supremacy of the parliament.
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He termed the incumbent system a form of ‘judicial martial law’.
However, the former government official was criticized for ‘maneuvering’ truth.
NS worked hand in glove with mil. dictator Gen. Zia ul Haq & now complains abt mil interfering in politics.What kind of hypocrisy is that? Stephen Sackur asked former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar@stephensackur must interview Maryam Nawaz,wud b interesting
pic.twitter.com/leWYgIQKyY— Shiffa Z. Yousafzai (@Shiffa_ZY) December 1, 2020
George Fulton, a former producer of BBC Hardtalk Pakistan, offered free mock interview services to Pakistani politicians on how to best prepare for an interview at Hard Talk.
However, his first lesson was to ‘Don’t accept the offer’.
As a former producer of BBC Hardtalk Pakistan, I am willing to offer my services, for a fee, to Pakistani politicians on how best to prepare for the interview. Lesson 1: Don’t accept offer of interview. #HardTalk #BBCHardTalk
— George Fulton (@GeorgeFulton1) December 1, 2020
Federal Maritime Minister Ali Haider Zaidi urged the show host to invite more PML-N officials for entertainment.
Requesting @stephensackur to please invite the following as well. We need more entertainment:
– Maryam (Sharif) Awan
– Hussain & Hassan Nawaz
– Ali Imran
– Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
– Bilawal Zardari (Inshallah he will soon recover from #COVIDー19)#IshaqDar #StephenSackur— Ali Haider Zaidi (@AliHZaidiPTI) December 2, 2020
This is not the first time Ishaq Dar is in trouble. In a confessional statement in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills reference, Dar had admitted to money laundering of $14.86 million.
