Pakistani media leaders and lawyer on Tuesday condemned the attempt of various local and international television channels to malign Pakistan's journalists covering Cricket World Cup, showing them as suspect in the alleged murder of Pakistan Coach, Bob Woolmer.
Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, Senior Vice President, Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan, Sabihuddin Ghausi, President, Karachi Press Club (KPC), and Mazhar Abbas, Secretary General, Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, were unanimous in their assessment that the credibility of the Pakistan media has been challenged by implicating two senior journalists of the country in the Woolmer murder case.
Ehsan Qureshi, Senior Sports Reporter, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), who was one of the two journalists seen in the CCTV camera footage shown on BBC, Indian and Pakistani channels, was defended strongly by the local media corps during a crowded briefing here at KPC on Tuesday.
"It was a greatly distressful feeling when the news broke out that I and the fellow journalist Abdul Majid Bhatti of the Jang Group, were seen in the footage during our coverage of the ICC World Cup 2007 at Kingston, Jamaica," Ehsan Qureshi remarked.
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