Asad Umar gave an interview to BBC’s HardTalk Stephen Sackur who is known to ask some very hard hitting questions.
Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 14th December, 2018) After criticism on British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for allegedly censoring Finance Minister Asad Umar’s interview where he mentioned Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, the channel will again air the complete interview.
BBC clarified that leaving out Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav’s mention from its interview with Finance Minister Asad Umar was “not an act of censorship” and it was edited out because of time constraints.
Asad Umar gave an interview to BBC’s HardTalk Stephen Sackur who is known to ask some very hard hitting questions.
The interview aired earlier did not have the portion where Asad Umar mentioned Kulbhushan Jadhav. This was pointed out by Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari who termed it a bias of BBC.
Later, the channel came out to explain that the recorded interview was too long for our broadcast slot and so had to be edited, adding that this was done separately for radio and TV.
In another tweet, BBC HardTalk said, “His name was omitted from the tv version. This was not an act of censorship, but clearly confusion has been caused, so we are happy to restore that short section to the TV broadcast and we’ll give the new programme an extra airing tonight as well as tomorrow morning.”
