This copied screen shot is self – explanatory. To be honest, as a professional courtesy, I will be more complacent towards Honourable Fahd Hussain, who happened to join my former organisation Dawn in Islamabad as its Resident Editor, after I had left, switching over from Express Group and replacing Honourable lady journalist Arifa Noor, with whom I had the privilege to travel together to Swat post- army operation to assess the ground situation.
Fahd Hussain, is blessed with excellent expression amongst the contemporary newsmen and is a courteous gentleman that I found after I made a courtesy call on him at the Dawn’s office. I absolutely do not know the background and the circumstances of this political offer that came the way of Honourable Fahd Hussain, but my humble take is, that professional courtesy demanded, he should have declined it, maintaining his neutrality then to prefer jumping the debt – ridden and over – loaded political bandwagon, run through its squeaking wheels, without going into its merits or demerits
Journalists are messengers to their readers and audience and once they compromise their neutrality that they compromise their credibility without realising that both power and money together can not buy credibility that Fahd and others must guard to be trusted as the national watchdogs of the country’s interests.