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SC issues notices to Jang, The News for 'misreporting' CJP's remarks
Haseeb Bhatti Updated November 14, 2018
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Justice Nisar distances himself from remarks critical of PTI govt. — File

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to Urdu newspaper Jang and English daily The News for allegedly misreporting a court story, in which the top judiciary had appeared to criticise the government.

The two publications, in their lead stories today, had reported that the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, while hearing a suo motu case of illegal construction in Banigala, had "remarked that the current government lacked capability and planning".

The top judge today distanced himself from those remarks, adding that "this news is untrue".

"Both the newspapers ran wrong stories," Justice Nisar said. "We had talked about the CDA (Capital Development Authority) in the Banigala case. There is a recording available of the court's proceedings; we can play that."

"[TV] programmes were also done on the basis of this wrong news," Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan said, to which Additional Attorney General Nayyer Rizvi added: "Tickers were also run [on the same]."

Later on, in its official notification, the court said: "We are surprised as the court never made such observations about the federal government. [Those] observations were made against the Capital Development Authority. This is an instance of gross misreporting."

The court issued notices to the publications' printers, publishers and editors, with the directives to respond by Thursday (November 15).

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"We are surprised as the court never made such observations about the federal government. [Those] observations were made against the Capital Development Authority. This is an instance of gross misreporting."

Maybe next Time.
 
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Lol the holy bible of noothiyas caught lying again. But will noothiyas learn anything from this, nope coz they are the traitors that want to destroy this country.
 
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I did ask what the forum policy is for #FakeNews but there was no answer.
The closest is this one but I think it must be expanded to include the fake news / disinformation
Policy on Acceptable Root Sources at Pakistan Defence Forum.
@Dubious in case you want to read these regulations
You see...when even the channels report it and papers print it....it becomes difficult to know which is fact and which is fiction....ONLY when it is debunked do we know the other was seriously fiction!

The govt needs to give us a channel that actually works as news not one chasing ratings!

MOST of the times even I am fooled!

We cant shut a thread until and unless the news is proven fake and by then the thread usually has established itself and people have discussed their hearts fill!

What I can do is try to close threads that you guys point out is debunked with a link to the lies exposed, would that be better? I will suggest it to @Horus
 
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You see...when even the channels report it and papers print it....it becomes difficult to know which is fact and which is fiction....ONLY when it is debunked do we know the other was seriously fiction!

The govt needs to give us a channel that actually works as news not one chasing ratings!

MOST of the times even I am fooled!

We cant shut a thread until and unless the news is proven fake and by then the thread usually has established itself and people have discussed their hearts fill!

What I can do is try to close threads that you guys point out is debunked with a link to the lies exposed, would that be better? I will suggest it to @Horus

There are repeat offenders with one purpose and that is to spread disinformation. Problem is new IDs will be made to carry on with it but tackling fake news is a must too. By establishing a discipline to punish repeat offenders who do this as a 'job' will be a great start.

I once spoke to a crew of bbc team who were doing a news report and one guy I spoke to told me that it can take days for facts to be established depending on the news and most news has limited scope so facts take a nose dive. This was almost 10 years ago before #FakeNews became popular.

I follow a rule of thumb and wait a few days to see if the news was true or not. Surprisingly so many news pieces have anomalies.
 
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There are repeat offenders with one purpose and that is to spread disinformation. Problem is new IDs will be made to carry on with it but tackling fake news is a must too. But by establishing a discipline to repeat offenders who do this as a 'job' will be a great start.

I once spoke to a crew of bbc team who were doing a news reporting and one guy I spoke to told me that it can take days for facts to be established depending on the news and most news has limited scope so facts take a nose dive. This was almost 10 years ago before #FakeNews became popular.

I follow a rule of thumb and wait a few days to see if the news was true or not. Surprisingly so many news pieces have anomalies.
I agree...one has to wait it out to know if it is fake or not...MOSTLY people here rush to threads with such "catchy" titles and start discussing or bashing.....It takes few days to get it out that the news was made up!
 
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Please ban geo for 2 days Atleast. If I am giving the punishment I would ban it permanently.evebing banning it for few days cause havoc .
 
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Please ban geo for 2 days Atleast. If I am giving the punishment I would ban it permanently.evebing banning it for few days cause havoc .

If you ban jang group then alot of innocent people that have nothing to do with the company policy will loose their livelihood. Instead there should be a law that if you report false/fake news then the company will be penalized with a hefty fine and temp ban on it unless they retract the news with-in 24hrs and publish an official apology.
 
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May I know if there is any apology from jang and the news ? If not yet then they should be punished. So that no one will dare to do this again
 
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