Nawaz loses cool with Business Plus team
ISLAMABAD: The Business Plus management on Friday alleged that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif’s media manager Pervaiz Rasheed seized tapes and intimidated their staff after Nawaz lost his temper in an interview. “We were held hostage after the interview when Pervaiz Rasheed, realised that Nawaz had used unbecoming language against President Pervez Musharraf, the Chaudhry brothers and Mushahid Hussain while answering one of my questions,” said Rana Mubashir, the Business Plus Director News, at a press conference here. Mubashir said that all through the interview at Nawaz’s Raiwind house, Nawaz used harsh language and lost his temper over routine questions. “Pervaiz Rasheed put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Ok pack up; this interview can’t be aired because you people have put tough questions and Nawaz has spoken harshly in answering your questions,” Mubashir quoted Rasheed as saying. Mubashir said the first question that annoyed Nawaz pertained to a deal he did when signing the exile document for 10 years. “Nawaz got angry when I asked him why he first denied the existence of any exile deal with the government before his homecoming and later admitted that it was for only five years?” Mubashir said the second question was about the allegation of pursuing confrontation politics, which he answered in bad taste. The third question pertained to his strategic road map for steering the country out of the turbulent situation. The PML-N leader’s reply was that President Musharraf’s resignation was the only solution to set the house in order. When Mubashir pressed him to delineate his road map, Nawaz didn’t come up with any answer to the point. “When I asked why the Chaudhry brothers and Mushahid Hussain had left him after 11 years, Nawaz blew his top and asked his media manager to seize the tapes and not let us go until we surrendered the tapes,” Mubashir told the reporters. Mubashir said they were left with no option but to surrender the tapes and ask whether they might conduct a fresh interview with mild questions as required. But Nawaz did not accept his request to hand him back the tapes. “My team and I were like hostages and I condemn it,” Mubashir said, adding that they had reported the incident to Raiwind police for registration of a case but they didn’t know whether their request would be accepted. Business Plus Bureau Chief Saba Jamal, Rana Mubashir and Jasmeen Manzoor have appealed to the government to take notice of the incident and ensure the press freedom. The channel management also reminded the media that Nawaz had also tried to repress the media during his tenure as prime minister. They also thanked local journalists and Rawalpindi-Islamabad Rawalpindi Press Club President Mushtaq Minhas for condemning the incident. atif khan
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today he is being the champ of free media and judicary and is the front man in the media freedom campaign and this is what he does
but Mubashir is no less, he is one badtameez host.
I like his direct questions but his tone is offensive most of the time and thats not the way to go about things.
c'mmon, have you ever seen Mr Luqman question his guests like a police wala. When you provoke an individual, then such things, such unfortunate incidents are likely to occur. And all he does is provoke and go on the offensive.
c'mmon, have you ever seen Mr Luqman question his guests like a police wala. When you provoke an individual, then such things, such unfortunate incidents are likely to occur. And all he does is provoke and go on the offensive.
but it should not come from a politician of his stature. Nawaz has showed his short comings during his various statement in recent time. Specially when he visited the hospital to see Benazir body he made a statement that he is withdrawing from the elections, then next day he made another statement contradicting the previous one.
He just make statements at his will without any discussion from his senior party leaders.
NAWAZ SHARIF KEEPS PRIVATE TV TEAM UNDER HOUSE ARREST
Ganja nawaz showing his true colours!!! He is acting like a dictator now imagine what this double standerd hippo crate will do if God forbids he comes to power.
According to Jang news paper a private new channel Business plus team went to his rai wind farm house to took his interview. They asked him couple of question and he got aggressive and started swearing and using foul language. He then ordered them to hand over the tapes, kept them in his house against their will and ordered them to take the interview again!!!
The man is acting exctaly same as whenhe was was in power.
c'mmon, have you ever seen Mr Luqman question his guests like a police wala. When you provoke an individual, then such things, such unfortunate incidents are likely to occur. And all he does is provoke and go on the offensive.
That might be true, but NS ain't no saint. During his time in power he brutalized media like never before. He almost shut down the Jang Group, but instead he was booted out of the office. NS was, is and will always be phalay darjay ka ghuda (1st class thug).
That might be true, but NS ain't no saint. During his time in power he brutalized media like never before. He almost shut down the Jang Group, but instead he was booted out of the office. NS was, is and will always be phalay darjay ka ghuda (1st class thug).
Re: NAWAZ SHARIF KEEPS PRIVATE TV TEAM UNDER HOUSE ARREST
NS proved his fascist tendencies during his tenures in the 90s. The guy is totally bankrupt as far as vision for the country is concerned... the best he could come up with was the motorway which turned out to be a white elephant. His siri paayey/nehaari breakfast along with the omnipresent kitchen cabinet was notorious...it bothers me to no end that we're heading towards those days again. And he couldn't even give a decent interview to the local media [which was non existent at that point], forget major players like BBC and CNN which totally stumped him!
Re: Nawaz loses cool with Business Plus team (merged)
All these Ghardar politicians, who have been holidaying abroad for the past 8 years, haven't got a clue how much the Pakistani society has changed, evolved and improved. Maybe, had they focused more on the developments in Pakistan rather than beg the West to help them become the ruling Governemnts over and over again in Pakistan, then they might have had some success on their return.
People like Nawaz Sharif are still frozen in the 1990s decade mindset when there was only PTV and the print media used to have their headquaters blown up on regular basis everytime they questioned the Government.
but Mubashir is no less, he is one badtameez host.
I like his direct questions but his tone is offensive most of the time and thats not the way to go about things.
what are you talking about, lucman is a good host he never does badtameez, he even was a poster on this forum a while back, hes a good man.
