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Fake
WikiLeaks: Pakistan news agency editor sacked
Sunday December 12, 2010 12:17:40 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad:
Siddique Sajid, editor of Pakistan's Online news agency, has been
sacked after it published a fake WikiLeaks report that New Delhi
allegedly played a role in destabilizing the country's Balochistan
province.
Online editor-in-chief Mohsin J. Baig, soon upon his return from
Turkey where he had accompanied Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
during his official visit there, had ordered an enquiry into the
fake WikiLeaks story.
The decision to sack Siddique Sajid was taken after it was
established in the enquiry that he had "solely misused" his
editorial authority in the absence of the news agency's
editor-in-chief by "fabricating a false story on a highly
sensitive subject such as the WikiLeaks' disclosure", Online said
on its website.
It regretted the release of the story, its subsequent publication
by media, and "the consequent erosion of its public credibility".
The Online International News Network is one of Pakistan's largest
news agencies.
"We shall continue to perform this useful role in a responsible
way as we have always done," Baig was quoted as saying.
"I know the difficulty of reporting in a place laced with vested
interests operating clandestinely, but reporting on currently the
most volatile subject in global media and, that also, without
corroborating the story's contents with factual documents is
unacceptable," he added.
The Online story had mentioned India's role in allegedly
destabilizing Pakistan's tribal areas and Balochistan province and
attributed these statements to then US ambassador to India, citing
WikiLeaks.
Online had claimed Saturday that "the said story was lifted from
the Daily Mail newspaper published from Islamabad".
"The newspaper is believed to be close to the intelligence
agencies in Pakistan and planted stories," Online said.
"We have been regularly reproducing stuff from Pakistani media
organisations and releasing prominent points," the clarification
read.
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