Media projecting baseless corruption stories: PM

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Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said that a section of media was projecting baseless and wrong corruption cases against him and the present government only to defame him.
He was talking to a private TV channel. “All these stories are cooked only to defame me,” the PM said. “I make a number of decisions daily but only three or four decisions are being projected in the media just to defame me,” Gilani said. He said, “Out of these decisions some are good, some are bad, as we are part of society.” The PM said, “It is against journalist ethics that old news is being publicized,” he said, adding that news means recent or fresh news. Gilani said that the media talked about the Adnan Khawaja case, adding that although the matter was subjudice but he wanted to explain it.
He said, “The media is giving popularity to Adnan Khawaja by projecting this case as I have not done anything wrong in this case.” The PM said, “Whenever a job was given by me, I ordered for an interview and when the interview of Adnan Khawaja was conducted everything had been asked by the officials who interviewed him and then he was appointed after getting answers for all the questions.” He said, “Therefore, I cannot be held responsible for giving him the job.” Gilani said that Adnan had already been working as chief executive for two or three years and it was just a transfer and posting, which was a routine matter. The PM said, “There is need to look into his first appointment and get the details of his qualification when he was recruited for the first time.” Regarding Khurram Rasool, he said, that he was a consultant for PTV and deputed for Northern Pakistan affairs and in a business since 2004 and it was before his becoming prime minister.
Gilani said that even the judiciary had given its remarks that two parties were doing business and if one was wrong then the other will also be wrong. The PM said it was a wrong perception in the media that media was a complainant regarding case of Khurram Rasool, adding, “I am the complainant against him and the media is wrongly projecting that I am responsible for any corruption done by Khurram Rasool, which is highest of stupidity.”
He said then another scandal was against his son that he bought a jeep from the Hajj scam. Gilani clarified, “My son brought the jeep in 2008 and the Hajj scam was in 2010, so he bought the jeep one year before the Hajj scam.” The PM said that when the complainant in the case, who was a PML-N MNA, was asked by court, he told that it was a hear-say. He said, “The court ordered to register a case against that sitting MNA of PML-N who levelled false allegations against my son and a case has been registered against him but we are being maligned.”
He said the media should be very judicious and when the CJP had given the remarks that do not defame who are respectable and registered a case who gave false statement, so media should be careful in reporting such cases. About his son MNA Ali Musa Gilani, the PM said he had nothing to do with politics before this election on the seat, which was vacated due to resignation of Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Gilani said his son never used his influence as his son.

8 COMMENTS

  1. Where there is smoke, there is fire. gillani has surrounded himself with totally inept, stupid, corrupt, immoral and incompetent people. He has done that so that he would look good compared to these people. He proves it by blaming others for the mistakes. Is he not ultimately responsible for the action of all the people that he has hired and surrounded himself with? I think a baboon would have made a better prime minister than gillani. His daughter is now being rumored to be the whore of UN diplomats. There are stories circulating about her and international diplomats in NY. Even his wife is rumored to be a mistress of zardari and rehman malik. I hope these are just rumors and nothing more.

  2. Idon't how these silly and behooda comments r printed,where is management of the paper
    Mr. Arif

    • no doubt these are BEHOODA comment6s but what about mr gilani selling this country. why u keep mum on that ?

  3. He and Zaradari are corrupt to the core. Gillani son lost pound sterling 50,000 in the night club in London. Still he thinks that he and his son are pious. Laughing stock of the highest order. Stupid PM

    Uzair Ahmed
    London

  4. Tum jitnay bhutto maro ga hum utni corruption karian ga and that should be new ppp slogan, Gilani sab apki sadgi pa shah Baba kurban jain Lol

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