{"id":22316,"date":"2013-01-08T06:25:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=22316"},"modified":"2013-01-08T06:25:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T12:25:42","slug":"pakistani-news-editor-sacked-for-cooking-up-a-wikileak-story-to-please-his-isi-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/01\/pakistani-news-editor-sacked-for-cooking-up-a-wikileak-story-to-please-his-isi-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani News Editor sacked for Cooking up a “Wikileak” story to please his ISI bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Certain changes are happening in the Pakistani world, that give reason for hope to the outside world. This incident of sacking of a news editor because he cooked up a false Wikileaks report to please his bosses in ISI and Pakistan Army, does show that some sections are standing up against the whole establishment.<\/p>\n

Siddique Sajid, editor of Pakistan\u2019s Online news agency, has been sacked after it published a fake WikiLeaks-based report that New Delhi allegedly played a role in destabilising the country\u2019s Balochistan province.<\/p>\n

Online editor-in-chief Mohsin J. Baig had ordered an enquiry into the fake WikiLeaks story. The decision to sack Mr. Sajid was taken after it was established in the enquiry that he had \u201csolely misused\u201d his editorial authority in the absence of the news agency\u2019s Editor-in-Chief by \u201cfabricating a false story on a highly sensitive subject such as the WikiLeaks disclosure\u201d, Online said on its website.<\/p>\n

It regretted the release of the story, its subsequent publication by media, and \u201cthe consequent erosion of its public credibility\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Online story had mentioned India\u2019s role in allegedly destabilising Pakistan\u2019s tribal areas and Balochistan province and attributed these statements to then U.S. ambassador to India, citing WikiLeaks. Online had claimed Saturday that \u201cthe said story was lifted from the Daily Mail newspaper published from Islamabad\u201d. \u201cThe newspaper is believed to be close to the intelligence agencies,\u201d Online said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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