These days Shahid Masood is leading the charge in the camp which wants to destabilize the democratically elected civilian government of Pakistan. He is the man who initiated the Kerry-Lugar controversy and is again responsible for creating the current NRO problem.
So who is this man and what is his mission. In this piece PMW will take a look at the continuing strain of lies by so-called political commentator Shahid Masood which have taken a very high toll and need to be shown for what they are — lies!
Dr Masood’s habit of creating or constructing his own facts, of claiming to know everyone, of claiming to be wherever and whenever something important is about to happen are now no longer taken at face value. It is time people challenged his falsehoods.
In 2006 on one of his programs for ARY TV Dr Shahid Masood plagiarized material from some documentary films. In his show ‘Views on News’ Dr Masood cited material and dramatic footage belonging to a documentary ‘The End Times and the Mahdi’ produced by a Muslim Turkish scholar Dr Harun Yahya without acknowledging this fact. He and ARY TV are lucky that Dr Yahya did not sue them.
In early 2008 a veteran Pakistani journalist used the following words to refer to Masood:
“He’s a doctor by career but a journalist by profession. How convenient is that!” Further, “The surgeon-turned-media darling got chummy with Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, and Pervez Musharraf; chatted up retired and serving generals for kiss-and-tell stories; interviewed anyone he so chose to grill and eventually landed as the czar of Pakistan Television, despite not wanting to take the job but took it at the insistence of Asif Ali Zardari!”
In November 2008 fellow host Kamran Khan (of Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Sath, GEO) decided to strike a body blow to the “fast sinking ship” of Dr. Shahid Masood. With reference to Dr. Shahid Masood’s appearance in Iftikhar Ahmed’s ‘Jawab Deh’ (November 23rd), Kamran Khan made the following observations:
“Dr. Shahid Masood claimed in ‘Jawab Deh’ that Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ibad had been his class-fellow. This is proven to be a lie. They didn’t even attend the same institution.
“Dr. Shahid Masood claimed in this column in Jang (a day after Musharraf’s resignation) that he was present in the same room that Musharraf gave his resignation speech in. This again, has been proved a lie by a serving member of the President’s House staff who called in. The official visitor’s list does not include Dr. Shahid Masood’s name as he had been stopped at the reception. Additionally, Hassan Kazmi who is a senior producer of Samaa TV and was actually part of Samaa TV’s broadcast team at the venue and an eye-witness to the entire event, also confirms that Dr. Shahid Masood’s article in Jang was a bundle of lies.
“Dr. Shahid Masood claimed in Iftikhar Ahmed’s ‘Jawab Deh’ on Geo, November 23rd, that all expenses for the ‘Dialogue’ (Dr. Shahid’s think-tank) conferences in Dubai and the US were paid for by those who attended. One of the members called in to expose this as yet another lie; all expenses, including airline tickets and hotel bookings were in fact paid for by Dr. Shahid Masood himself.
So who is Shahid Masood and what is his real agenda? Is he one of the shadowy figures in our politics-media world who make money and gain power and prestige from spreading false rumors, distorting facts and encouraging the various elements in society to fight with each other?
TV anchors and media personalities are supposed to present facts and give their opinions – they are not supposed to pronounce judgments based on twisted facts. People like Dr Shahid Masood twist facts, give their opinions as facts and then make pronouncements on leaders, countries and the future.
PDF Tags: ARY TV, Geo TV, Iftikhar Ahmed, Jang Group, Jawab Deh, Kamran Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Shahid Masood
General (R) Pervez Musharraf, Dr. Shazia Khalid & Dirty Role of Dr. Shahid Masood. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2010/09/general-r-pervez-musharraf-dr-shazia.html