Islamabad: Senior anchor and host of ‘Tonight with Jasmeen’ Jasmeen Manzoor has resigned from Samaa TV after her channel was served a stay order from a court.
Although the anchor clarified in a tweet that the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and land mafia were behind her resign. But the social media and internet gurus started ‘revealing’ inside information about her resign.
Farhan Imaan F.Abro of INCPak said that Jasmeen Manzoor confirmed in her tweet that she has resigned from Saama TV.
Zulfiqar Halepoto said, “a friend close to the ‘high-ups’ of channel informed that there were multiple reasons…one major reason was her recent interview with Imran khan and several questions on ‘who will win Karachi in next general elections’…which I missed to screen.”
Nigar Nazar of Gogi Studios appreciated her saying “Jasmeen! You’ve got what it takes! God speed, chin up and good luck!”
Jasmeen Manzoor has alleged that a person named Ameen Lakhani was behind the whole situation and he controls the Pemra, Media and Fauj [army].
“Amin lahkani sent his men to my office threatened my staff put pressure of [on] me but when I refused he threatened the channel!,” she alleged in her tweet.
Nemat Khan, another Journalist from Pakistan, entered the discussion with a question of the day, “could someone confirm as I am told by my sources that Ameen Lakhan is Zardari’s man?”.
Mansoor Satti from Pakistan’s capital claimed that “Jasmeen Manzoor join [joining] new Urdu news channel (Apna News)”
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Secretary General Dr Arif Alvi said that “I must appreciate people like Jasmeen for taking a stand and deplore the attitude of the channel for bending under pressure. The media has opened up a lot of issues and Pakistan politics is indebted to them. At the same time a lot of things go unreported under pressure. Journalists have been killed trying to stand up to pressures so to state that they are not doing it generally would be very wrong.”
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