Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President and Opposition leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif while criticizing Prime Minister Imran Khan for his opposition to media has said first he used it to amplify his politics and when the same media showed him the mirror, he turned against it, reported 24NewsHJD TV channel.
The PML-N leader in his tweet posted on Tuesday wrote: “IK's unrestrained anger for the media is understandable. He has used it to turbocharge his politics of lies, deceit & character assassination. When the same media is showing him the mirror, he has turned against it. It is how the fascists behave & want everything to fall in line.”
In his address to nation on Monday night, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) was being formed in 2016 and his government was only amending it to stem the spread of fake news.
He said that mafia men were blackmailing the government in the name of freedom of the press and added that even the prime minister of the country was not spared on social media.
“A head of state who has not been involved in corruption is not scared of the media,” the prime minister stated and added that most of the news stories being aired by media channels were anti-government.
He also came down hard on the journalists involved in publishing ‘fake stories’ against the government, saying that the type of news stories published in Pakistani media could not be reported in any other democracy of the world.
He pointed out that good journalism was an asset to society, but mudslinging and filthy remarks about women should be controlled.