Dr Shahid Masood finds himself in the dock. The doctor-turned-Tv talk show-turned-monologue actor drew the ire of Supreme Court Chief Justice Saqib Nisar for claiming to have the proof of 37 bank accounts of the alleged rapist-cum-murderer of Zainab Amin, a minor girl of Kasur, under an international child porn racket. The medicine doctor was regarded the most authentic, objective and not less than a messiah when he was attached with the Geo News Television from 2009 t0 2013 and would hurl deadlines in his every show about the dissolution of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government, arrest of then president Asif Ali Zardari and other PPP leaders for the crimes of corruption being committed all over the world. When all his deadlines fell flat, and then Supreme Court brigade found no meat in his allegations, the Geo bosses turned disappointed from him and without any deadline, showed him the door. Wounded, but never feeling humiliated, the doctor, soon sat at another rival TV channel – ARY – where he resumed his offshore doom and gloom shops, selling the things like Rs5 billion bills confiscated from the house of former PPP Sindh minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, and Bilawal House being raided if not tonight, maybe in the morning or afternoon or by evening but before midnight.
When the night passed without any raid, and in the morning, no Rangers' deployment was seen outside the Bilawal House, and nothing much happened in the afternoon and evening either, the doctor would profess the next raid timeline: surely, tonight, or by the morning.
When some saner elements at the ARY realised that the programme had become a source of embarrassment, they politely told him that he should choose his own farewell date. He joined Bol TV network and Dunya TV for brief times; now for over three years, he sits in News One studios. In the meantime, he tried to bless the Pakistan Muslim League-N with his investigative imagination, calling their victory the result of 35 punctures. Roadside tyer fixers might have felt challenged by his of analogy between puncture and sham elections.
Side by side, this doctor’s counterparts have also been airing the elements of doom and gloom on an everyday basis. Hamid Mir, who claims to be an honest and objective journalist with two bullets still in his belly, challenged the laws of science by strongly supporting a water-run car. Kamran Khan read out long speeches implicating former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Raja Parvez Ashraf, Nawaz Sharif and Khaqan Abbasi. Name any other anchor or newspaper reporter, who has not seen #theDrShahidMasood moment in their career.
No one knows what jinxed Dr Shahid Masood, as his progroamme caught the eye of the honourable chief justice, that the anchor finds himself in the dock. If the respected judge starts reading the top English and Urdu newspapers, and watch the prime time talk shows, the court will fall short of time addressing fake, sloppy news.
This is not #theDrShahidMasood claim. Right now, I am reading a lead story in an English newspaper, which is just like another like 27 bank account story or water-fueled car.
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