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      <title>PTI and its supporters troll journalist Gharida Farooqi for segment on Murad Saeed
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Journalist Gharidah Farooqi found herself a focus of PTI's ire  on Friday for discussing the performance of Federal Minister for Communications Murad Saeed in her programme G for Gharida. Shortly after PTI unleashed its anger, the hashtag #GforGhatya was one of the trop trends on Twitter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Farooqi and her guests were discussing the recently awards given to the top ministries for achieving their targets in which Saeed's ministry came on top.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Farooqi asked the panel on her show why they thought Saeed was awarded the top position.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Analyst Mohsin Baig quoted the federal minister saying he had built at least 6,000 km roads across the country, but Baig said he didn't know anything about these roads. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"China refused to allow visit of Murad Saeed to Beijing because the federal minister has addressed a press conference on China-Sukkur motorway and waved papers there calling the project [which initiated in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government] a fraud," he said. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He also talked about China's response on the presser, saying Beijing issued a rebuttal on it and later the federal minister had to apologize.&lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/GFarooqi/status/1492162592097382402?s=20&amp;amp;t=9CyAiHKjZBycfg0OAOkcbw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			 &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At this the anchorperson wondered how Prime Minister Imran Khan was satisfied at the performance of the federal minister despite all these issues.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The discussion then took a new turn and Baig brought up the memoir of Reham Khan, Prime Minister's ex-wife. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He said one may find the reasons in her book but did not delve deeper. The host did not probe further. &lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/GFarooqi/status/1492118092029247491?s=20&amp;amp;t=9CyAiHKjZBycfg0OAOkcbw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another panel member Tariq Mahmood said: "Only two people are serious in it: PM Imran who conducted the ceremony and Murad Saeed who received the top award. We should not get serious about it."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Following airing of the programme, Pemra issued a show cause notice to News One channel for “highly derogatory/ demeaning remarks… without any editorial check”.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Responding to that particular clip from her programme, many journalists took to say that gossip and conjecture did not qualify as journalism. &lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Xadeejournalist/status/1492209001010204672?s=20&amp;amp;t=_IsXFH0LFwcIdAFIatcW8A"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IffatHasanRizvi/status/1492231220977192969?s=20&amp;amp;t=_IsXFH0LFwcIdAFIatcW8A"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
            &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
				
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While many others questioned whether it is journalism.&lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Ameer_R_Jamali/status/1492220413992226820?s=20&amp;amp;t=_IsXFH0LFwcIdAFIatcW8A"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

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                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Ms_HKS/status/1492212102412800001?s=20&amp;amp;t=_IsXFH0LFwcIdAFIatcW8A"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But the hashtag garnered the support of the ruling party and its officials which took the abuse towards the journalist to a different level. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Azhar Mashwani who is the focal person of CM Punjab on Digital Media created a poll on his Twitter and asked what the show should be renamed. &lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MashwaniAzhar/status/1492222938149441546?s=20&amp;amp;t=N4Vr5TtoWDSDmXzNQkwRgA"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MashwaniAzhar/status/1492233964848922637?s=20&amp;amp;t=urDqqlCbUUORUXnmESnlPw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Several federal ministers also tweeted against the journalist.&lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Shafqat_Mahmood/status/1492382626463682560?s=20&amp;amp;t=fbDNjImW-bT23Uvfxvi_aw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ShireenMazari1/status/1492351627885486086?s=20&amp;amp;t=fbDNjImW-bT23Uvfxvi_aw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/fawadchaudhry/status/1492379683278798853?s=20&amp;amp;t=fbDNjImW-bT23Uvfxvi_aw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
            &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
				
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The ruling PTI's social media account also took part in the Twitter trend against the journalist.&lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/1492237910292189192?s=20&amp;amp;t=fbDNjImW-bT23Uvfxvi_aw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
            &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
				
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;However, a lawyer Ayesha Ijaz Khan wondered why people were angry at the journalist saying "Basically Reham Khan wrote a book. Even those who couldn’t stand her seem to have read it. If what she wrote was untrue, she could’ve easily been sued 4 defamation by Imran Khan and other PTI members but they didn’t sue!"&lt;/p&gt;

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				&lt;div class='media__item    media__item--twitter  '&gt;            &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
                &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ayeshaijazkhan/status/1492348149259816960?s=20&amp;amp;t=gzXmOeGZ--eUnc09t-PMjQ"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Journalist Gharidah Farooqi found herself a focus of PTI's ire  on Friday for discussing the performance of Federal Minister for Communications Murad Saeed in her programme G for Gharida. Shortly after PTI unleashed its anger, the hashtag #GforGhatya was one of the trop trends on Twitter.</strong></p>

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<p>Farooqi and her guests were discussing the recently awards given to the top ministries for achieving their targets in which Saeed's ministry came on top.</p>

<p>Farooqi asked the panel on her show why they thought Saeed was awarded the top position.</p>

<p>Analyst Mohsin Baig quoted the federal minister saying he had built at least 6,000 km roads across the country, but Baig said he didn't know anything about these roads. </p>

<p>"China refused to allow visit of Murad Saeed to Beijing because the federal minister has addressed a press conference on China-Sukkur motorway and waved papers there calling the project [which initiated in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government] a fraud," he said. </p>

<p>He also talked about China's response on the presser, saying Beijing issued a rebuttal on it and later the federal minister had to apologize.</p>

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<p>At this the anchorperson wondered how Prime Minister Imran Khan was satisfied at the performance of the federal minister despite all these issues.</p>

<p>The discussion then took a new turn and Baig brought up the memoir of Reham Khan, Prime Minister's ex-wife. </p>

<p>He said one may find the reasons in her book but did not delve deeper. The host did not probe further. </p>

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<p>			</p>

<p>Another panel member Tariq Mahmood said: "Only two people are serious in it: PM Imran who conducted the ceremony and Murad Saeed who received the top award. We should not get serious about it."</p>

<p>Following airing of the programme, Pemra issued a show cause notice to News One channel for “highly derogatory/ demeaning remarks… without any editorial check”.</p>

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				<figcaption class="media__caption  ">@AdnanhussainAD/Twitter</figcaption>
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<p>Responding to that particular clip from her programme, many journalists took to say that gossip and conjecture did not qualify as journalism. </p>

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<p>While many others questioned whether it is journalism.</p>

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<p>			</p>

<p>But the hashtag garnered the support of the ruling party and its officials which took the abuse towards the journalist to a different level. </p>

<p>Azhar Mashwani who is the focal person of CM Punjab on Digital Media created a poll on his Twitter and asked what the show should be renamed. </p>

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<p>Several federal ministers also tweeted against the journalist.</p>

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<p>			</p>

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<p>			</p>

<p>The ruling PTI's social media account also took part in the Twitter trend against the journalist.</p>

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<p>			</p>

<p>However, a lawyer Ayesha Ijaz Khan wondered why people were angry at the journalist saying "Basically Reham Khan wrote a book. Even those who couldn’t stand her seem to have read it. If what she wrote was untrue, she could’ve easily been sued 4 defamation by Imran Khan and other PTI members but they didn’t sue!"</p>

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