Rahimullah Yusufzai: The honeymoon is officially over - Journalists are biggest terrorists: Zardari

PESHAWAR: President Asif Zardari seems to be so unhappy with the media that he told a delegation of businessmen from the NWFP recently that journalists were the biggest terrorists in Pakistan.

Members of the delegation of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI), which met the president on January 15, quoted him as saying that journalists misreported things and presented the situation in a non-objective manner. They said the president felt the media should be careful in its handling of sensitive issues.

“Journalists are the biggest terrorists,” President Zardari is said to have remarked while talking about the issue of terrorism in NWFP and Fata. In his view the journalists were bigger terrorists than even the terrorists.

Requesting anonymity, some of the delegation members told The News that they were surprised by the Zardari’s remark as it was made out of context. They said no example of misreporting or distortion of facts by the media was given to justify the remark about journalists being terrorists.