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It has become a norm for Pakistani journalists, both print and broadcast, to pass their own decision in favor or against an individual or organization before the court of law announces its verdict. The latest news and the detailed article published today in Dawn related to the sentencing and fine of one Umair Hamid, ostensibly a former executive of Axact, is a case in point.
According to Axact, the news is fabricated and a well-orchestrated smear campaign to malign the organization. The company further said that the US court has yet to pass its verdict on the 21st of July and the writer’s claim that Umair Hamid has been handed 78 months of sentence and 11m dollars’ worth of fine is a premeditated conspiracy to defame and discredit Axact. “It’s the height of yellow journalism,” Salman Ahmed, a former executive of Axact, said. The company went on to say that there was no evidence of the company having been involved in any fraud that Umair Hamid is accused of, a crime which has yet to be proved in the court of law.
For a neutral observer, this is a very interesting case. If one were to believe Axact’s version related to the story, then this is a serious violation of the journalistic ethic on the part of the writer of a highly credible and renowned newspaper of Pakistan. Had the writer been in the US, he would have gone to jail by now in contempt of court. The news, and the full cover story published in Dawn’s EOS page, may well be a sort of retaliatory action against Axact’s vociferous stance against the newspaper over Dawn Leaks. The company is well within its rights to take strict action against the erring writer and the newspaper itself for publishing a false, fabricated, and exaggerated story whose only objective apparently is to undermine Axact and its media conglomerate BOL News.
This article is opinionated with regards to the article published in Dawn News;
The curious case of Umair Hamid: How an Axact VP was arrested in a sting operation in the US
According to Axact, the news is fabricated and a well-orchestrated smear campaign to malign the organization. The company further said that the US court has yet to pass its verdict on the 21st of July and the writer’s claim that Umair Hamid has been handed 78 months of sentence and 11m dollars’ worth of fine is a premeditated conspiracy to defame and discredit Axact. “It’s the height of yellow journalism,” Salman Ahmed, a former executive of Axact, said. The company went on to say that there was no evidence of the company having been involved in any fraud that Umair Hamid is accused of, a crime which has yet to be proved in the court of law.
For a neutral observer, this is a very interesting case. If one were to believe Axact’s version related to the story, then this is a serious violation of the journalistic ethic on the part of the writer of a highly credible and renowned newspaper of Pakistan. Had the writer been in the US, he would have gone to jail by now in contempt of court. The news, and the full cover story published in Dawn’s EOS page, may well be a sort of retaliatory action against Axact’s vociferous stance against the newspaper over Dawn Leaks. The company is well within its rights to take strict action against the erring writer and the newspaper itself for publishing a false, fabricated, and exaggerated story whose only objective apparently is to undermine Axact and its media conglomerate BOL News.
This article is opinionated with regards to the article published in Dawn News;
The curious case of Umair Hamid: How an Axact VP was arrested in a sting operation in the US
