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Supreme Court Suspends Dr. Shahid Masood’s Show After Fake Child Pornography Story!

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Everyone with a conscience remembers the day Zainab Ansari was raped and murdered. You remember the day her culprit was caught, and soon after, you will also remember that Dr. Shahid Masood, one of Pakistan’s most senior journalists, blurt out a statement that could never be taken back.

Dr. Shahid Masood had alleged that Zainab’s rapist, Imran Ali, belonged to an international ring which worked on violent child pornography. By this, what he meant was, that people from all over the world, especially Europe, pay huge amounts of money to see children raped violently on the internet. The ordeal, as per Shahid Masood, gets live-streamed on dark web.

Source: tribune.com

When Dr. Shahid Masood revealed this information in his show, along with stating that he had proof of Imran Ali holding 37 bank accounts in Pakistan which are full of foreign funding, the top court of Pakistan took notice of the incident and summoned Dr. Shahid. The Dr., who stood by his words, went back and forth from his show to the supreme court, but could never prove this information.

Thus, after almost two months of waiting, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally suspended Dr. Shahid Masood’s show on tv for 3 months! The bench, being head by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, also demanded and unconditional written apology from Dr. Shahid Masood. Masood had gone as far as saying that the courts could ‘hang’ him if his information was wrong.

Source: facebook.com

“We will not give you capital punishment like you asked but we will ask you what should be the punishment for you,” Chief Justice Saqib Nisar told Dr. Shahid Masood. “I don’t know what you think of the courts in Pakistan, let it be clear that either the courts have evolved or may be I have changed,” he added. In the end, Shahid Masood’s apology was accepted, as he was reminded that millions of feeble minds watch his show and they do not need proof for a hoax to become a fact.

The whole ordeal turned out to be very embarrassing for Dr. Shahid Masood, who not just lost quite a lot of fan base, but was disgraced in the top court of Pakistan as well. His credibility as a journalist has been seriously hurt after his fake-story..

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