Consular General of Pakistan in New York ruins NYSE Nasdaq screen offer
A few days back I received an email claiming that the consular general of Pakistan in New York used a once in a life time opportunity to advertise the need for aid to Pakistan. He has been accused of showing the nations flags, his own pictures and in the email he was accused of showing pictures of late Benazir Bhutto and her husband.
Than GEO TV ran a clip showing the video where according to them the consular general clearly abused his power and took advantage to self promote him.
It is unfortunate that in Pakistan not only do we lack good and honest politicians but we also lack good and honest journalists. The media in Pakistan has grown powerful over the last few years and are able to lie and create news and get away with it. They will run any story that involves damaging the reputation of the Government of Pakistan and its semi owned entities.
So the question arises is what happened in New York? Was there misconduct?
The New York Stock Exchange NASDAQ allows invited guests to ring the opening and closing bell. The consular general was invited to ring the closing bell and give a very short speech. After investigating and scanning dozens of articles I found out that the claims by some haters who clearly wanted to target Babar Hashmi was all false. The fact remains folks that its NASDAQ not GEO TV who will break all there rules for a bit of money. The fact remains that NASDAQ has standards and processes and they followed that process when they invited the consular general. The fact remains that this is totally free and a great honor.
Here is the official facebook fan page of NASDAQ ( http://www.facebook.com/nasdaqomx )
Here is the official pictures and video of the consular general at the closing bell ( http://www.facebook.com/nasdaqomx & http://www.facebook.com/nasdaqomx )
Please notice the style the pictures were taken with the other guests who appear at the NASDAQ stock exchange who have the privilege of ringing the closing bell.
Naturally nothing will happen to the wanna be journalists sitting in the nation’s largest media channels who browsed facebook and reposted scandalous and baseless accusations and ran TV shows and articles whilst being TOTALLY wrong.
The moral of this story is, don’t believe ANYTHING the news channels in Pakistan tell you because none of their information is verified and they are there to sell ads and make money, they do not have the people’s interest at heart.