The government also prepared a detailed complaint dossier that dismissed the story as unfounded, biased and one-sided, stating that it failed to incorporate the viewpoints of all stakeholders and was published without citing credible sources. Carrying out a detailed analysis of the “baseless accusations” levelled against the Pakistani military, the complaint cited BBC’s own editorial guidelines in the report to explain how the story violated them. “Without taking the version of the accused party, [the claims made in the article] are in clear violation of fair, factual and unbiased journalistic standards and BBC’s editorial policy,” it said. According to the complaint document, failing to reach out to the sources it’s a violation of the BBC official editorial guidelines. Pakistani military rebuts BBC report as ‘pack of lies’You can read the entire dossier here:Read full story

Source: The Express Tribune June 18, 2019 12:00 UTC