Because that particular journalist, naughty as he may have been feeling at the time, is from a select group of journalists we like to call "lifafa sahafi" (envelope journalist) or simply "lifafi" (as you can guess from his quiet acquiescence to her calls for shutting the camera, he didn't want to push it).
They are effectively these guys' mouth pieces. Though this one in particular, Mansoor Ali Khan had been
acting out a bit recently and esp with this interview.
Keep in mind this is a very basic and valid question. Not a gotcha or anything. Meanwhile one such journalist said to IK during his tenure that he would "grab IK by the collar" if the he didn't fix the economy.
This points to the deeper issue. Thanks to their decades of rule, the sharifs and bhuttos/zardaris have their people in all institutions. Media, Judiciary, Bureaucracy, NGOs. Up until last year, we used to think the military was not among those institutions rather they were the last bastion of an independent non-corrupt state. That veil has been lifted too. Which is why you see so much despondence and irreverence among Pakistanis now. There's nothing grounding us anymore. There' no reasoning. No faith in anyone except one man. And if that goes, then God help us.
@-=virus=- , I poured my heart out here. If you really want to understand the situation sincerely. Honest comments hn to de do. nahi to rehne do
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