Observer Report
Islamabad
The PML-N’s spokesperson, in a statement issued on Friday via Twitter, strongly condemned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks from a day ago in which he said there was a “presence of mafia” in newspapers.
On Thursday, while speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Jalalpur Canal project in Pind Dadan Khan town of Jhelum, PM Imran said 2020 would be the year of economic stability in Pakistan and would prove to be a tough one for mafias.
Elaborating further, he said mafias were present in the Federal Board of Revenue and other government institutions, in politics and in newspapers. He said newspapers carried bad news [against the government] everyday.
“Those journalists who had benefited from the corrupt system in the past were now writing against his administration,” he said.
Responding to the premier’s remarks from a day ago, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb in a strongly-worded statement shared on Twitter, strongly criticised the prime minister for “calling the media a mafia”. “An incompetent, incapable and selected prime minister is saying that there is a mafia in the media.
