Pakistan government formally lodged protest with the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) for publishing baseless and one-sided story, Aaj News reported Tuesday The government sent a 19-page dossier to the BBC over June 2 story vis-à-vis alleged human rights violations.
Pakistan's Press Attaché in Britain will raise the issue with Office of Communication and the BBC. The dossier stated the June 2 story was against ethics of journalism since comments of both the parties were not added in the story which is also against the BBC's organisational policy.
The dossier said the image of Pakistan was damaged by publishing the story without concrete evidence. It said analysis in the story was biased and the facts were also not included. Pakistan government hoped that action would be taken against those responsible. The government demanded the BBC to apologise and remove the story from its website.
It also expect BBC to ensure that in the future such fake stories specifically targeting Pakistan would not be disseminated; however, Pakistan reserves the right for legal action in Britain if the BBC failed to take action. The dossier stated that declaring the legitimate operation of the country's institutions as terrorism is misleading. It cited that former British PM Tony Blair had already apologised for wrong intelligence information.
The dossier asked if BBC had published such story when British army was present in Iraq and Afghanistan. It said Pakistan army has never accepted the murder of Adnan Rasheed. The dossier stated that different correspondents of the BBC visited tribal areas for 14 times. But, the reporter who published the story never requested to visit Waziristan because the purpose of the story was propaganda against Pak Army.
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