Fourth Estate or a Fifth Column?

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The Fourth Estate in Pakistan became the Fifth Column a long time ago. Let’s face it, it has stopped  serving the national interest for a very long time. Intentional or not, their main thrust these days is to sow the seeds of mistrust between some vital national institutions in an apparent effort to create doubt, discontent, disillusionment, demoralisation and divisions in the country. In all my experience around the world I have never witnessed such brazen and shameful anti-national conduct among the media anywhere. Even their puppeteers acknowledge as much as evident from this statement by a western diplomat in Islamabad not long ago:

 
Pakistani TV journalists are some of the easiest to buy or manipulate. ———- Their price is ridiculously small. A drink, a lunch with a second or first secretary in a place where they can be seen by their admirers, invitations to official receptions, or at most, a trip to the states, is all you need to buy their loyalty. ———– My dog is usually fussier. 

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