Hyde
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Pakistani anchors nowadays are busy threatening the government or opposition depending upon their personal affiliations with the party. There is no more fair ground for journalists in Pakistan these days, its either with me or against me. The job of anchor is to ask questions, they must restrain from making controversial statements.Anchor persons are not reporters or journalists hence express their opinion. That is an unfortunate fact of the electronic media. The bold part is exactly what the anchors do too. They are not present at the scene for most of the time rather forward the news coming to them from the reporter/cameraman who are present at the scene. I see no fundamental difference between you/me and an anchor for all of us extract information from various sources, analyze them as per our biases, and present.
Mubashar Luqman on other hand is not a journalist, like he said himself that he was brought in by Salman Taseer if my memory is correct and he was probably a business man and belonged to Army family background... something like that... so he has always been inclined to dictators a part from PTI of whom he actively participate, do public speeches and openly threat political parties opposing PTI