A new revelation in the GEO-ISI saga has come into light and it is alleged that Ansar Abbasi, a reporter of Jang/Geo news, secretly visited PEMRA office to draft the PEMRA notice against Geo. It is the same notice which was sent out to Geo after the Ministry of Defense sent a complaint against the said media house for bringing disrepute to state agencies.

It is alleged that Mr. Abbasi went to PEMRA office on 23rd April night around 2:18 AM and prepared the draft and or helped in drafting the show cause notice which was then sent to Geo. It is alleged that different versions of the drafts were discarded for being strong worded. The final draft version was then approved and sent out to Jang/Geo media house.

The PEMRA office has many CCTV cameras setup on its building and the integrity of these allegations could be easily ascertained. The data record of these CCTVs are kept for a month before deleting them.

If these allegations turned out to be true, then not only Mr. Abbasi but the members of PEMRA could get into a big trouble. This act would go against the rules of PEMRA ordinance, Article 10 subsection 2 of which reads,

The members shall not have any direct or indirect financial interest, or have any connection with any such person, entity or related undertaking as mentioned in sub-section(1) of this section associated in any way with the licensee of a broadcast station for so long as they are members and hold office.

On the other hand, there was no reply from Mr. Ansar Abbasi when he was contacted to know his side of the story. He neither confirmed nor denied these allegations.