Islamabad: 04-Jan-2022 – Leader of the House Senator Dr. Shahzad Waseem drew the House’s attention towards an audio going viral on social media and being hotly discussed on several TV channels about ‘conversation between PMLN leaders Maryam Nawaz and ex-information minister Pervaiz Rashid’. He charged the audio had exposed the so-called advocates of media freedom and freedom of expression, as to how they regulated and managed the media.

He asked in what capacity Maryam ran a media cell during the regime of then PM Nawaz Sharif from the PM House. “Their real face has been exposed again in the latest audio. Such conversation was held about journalists that cannot be repeated here. This is their mindset about the media and its freedom that journalists were being abused and that ads to such and such channel be stopped. Today, they are reaping what they had sown,” he noted. He also made mention of some earlier audio tapes as well, which according to him were used to insult the courts.