"Fake News Spreads Only When Real News is Censored" Senior Journalist Mazhar Abbas

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00:00Look, whether it is Bhatnav or PFUJ or Joint Action Committee, Zaheer, or the policy making body, whatever they do

00:10In my personal opinion, this law is not being taken back

00:17Look, if we fall into the trap of this amendment, then remember that you will be a loser

00:24Because when the Press and Publication Ordinance was implemented, we consistently demanded it to be abolished for 23 years

00:34Because we could see why the Press and Publication Ordinance was implemented

00:39This PECA is not an amendment. If you want to improve anything, withdraw this law

00:47Sit down and discuss a draft for proper legislation

00:53They will remove 4 things from it and do 1-2-3 minor things

00:58After that, they will keep you on board

01:03But when that time comes, we will discuss it

01:06We have fought the whole war on the streets, so I don't think we should go into those things

01:12Look, the problem is this

01:14Look, you are in power, PFUJ is in power, Joint Action Committee

01:20Remember the past

01:22Amendments didn't work in the past

01:25You had to abolish the Press and Publication Ordinance in 1986

01:30I am telling you again, withdraw PECA 2016

01:34We have been doing this

01:36But the problem is that everyone has contributed to this

01:39PECA was brought by the PMLN

01:41Then Khan Sahib's government came

01:43Do you remember, Fawad Chaudhary Sahib tried to make a lot of things strict

01:47The authority was becoming very scary

01:49Then Presidential Act Ordinance came in 2022

01:52Things were added to that as well

01:54Then the government came in 1989 and did all the work

01:57The problem is that

01:59Interestingly, the chairman of the Interior Ministry's Standing Committee was from PTI

02:06Now the issue is

02:08I just want to ask you

02:11In such a hurry, the way this law was passed

02:15And the way it was passed in a hurry

02:18Despite everyone's objections

02:20There must be a reason for it

02:22The reason is not so small

02:24Because of which we will say

02:26And they will back off

02:28We will repeal it and sit down again

02:31So I am thinking

02:33Are we going towards a standoff

02:36Where the entire media will be on one side

02:38And the government will be on one side

02:42Isn't it, Mazhar?

02:44Look, sir, I don't know what the government has to say about the government

02:50Because the way the law was brought in

02:52And the way it was brought in through the Interior Ministry

02:54Tell me, what is the position of the Ministry of Information

02:57That it was brought in through the Ministry of Interior

03:00All these things, master

03:02Remember, this law

03:05Was brought in to spread fake news

03:08And this is why the dissenting voice is being killed

03:12The dissenting voice is being killed

03:15Because the fake news that the government will spread

03:20Will be all fake news

03:23Remember that fake news

03:25Spreads when the real news is banned

03:30The news that is banned

03:33Actually, the news is the same

03:35Because someone or the other is worried about that news

03:38Someone or the other is restless about that news

03:41And that is why such laws are made

03:44When there will be a ban

03:46When you will not be able to speak

03:48When the master will not be able to speak

03:50Then what will spread after that?

03:53Only what the government will spread

03:56Let's take a break here

03:58We will talk about this after the break

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