Hamid Mir, famous Jang/The News journalist and host of Capital Talk show on Geo News, lashed out at fellow journalists from his own media house for publishing cooked up stories against Chairman PTI Imran Khan. He said, “those [journalists] who are trying to find Qatari letter from Imran Khan’s money trail are biased and sell-outs.”
The front page of both Jang and The News published a misleading story by Noor Aftab titled, “Imran submits ‘Qatari’ letter to SC”. The story claimed that instead of providing his money trail, Imran Khan also submitted a Qatari-like letter to SC similar to the notorious Qatari letter presented by Nawaz Sharif.
In fact, Imran Khan presented his money trail in the Supreme Court but only missed out on his contract details with Sussex and Worcestershire counties because the management of the said counties did not keep records older than twenty years.
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar’s had asked Imran Khan if he had the money trail to justify buying a flat in London worth 117,000 pounds.
The documents presented before court by Imran Khan’s lawyer Naeem Bukhari contained record of his contracts with various counties and cricket leagues during his cricketing years. According to the documents, Imran Khan earned 190,000 pounds in 1987 alone.
While Supreme Court asked Imran Khan to justify the source of 117,000 pounds used buy his London flat in 1984, the documents presented so far say Imran Khan earned in excess of 350,000 pounds excluding the money he earned from Sussex and Worcestershire counties, the record of which is missing.
Earlier today Imran Khan also strongly criticized Jang/Geo group for their misleading stories against him and for equating his case with that of Nawaz Sharif’s, which according to him was a case of corruption and money laundering.
The official twitter handle of PTI later posted a picture detailing the how, when and ‘how much’ of the money Imran Khan earned during his cricketing years.
Imran Khan severely criticized Jang group owner Mir Shakil ur Rehman for using his media house to serve the interests of the ruling Sharifs.
The statement of Hamid Mir against the journalists of his own media house gives credence to the popular belief that some journalists take money to write misleading stories in favour of their buyers.