[Pak-Media] Answers for the 4-member special committee, established by the PFUJ to probe into allegations (of corruption) leveled against my person

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From: Nusrat Javeed <nusrat.javeed@gmail.com>
Date: July 24, 2012 15:22:55 GMT+05:00
To: aminpfuj@gmail.com, kujamin@gmail.com, mushtaq minhas <mushtaqminhas@gmail.com>, M Ziauddin <m_ziauddin@hotmail.com>, "muhammad.ziauddin" <muhammad.ziauddin@tribune.com.pk>
Subject: answers for the 4-member special committee, established by the PFUJ to probe into allegations (of corruption) leveled against my person

Muhammad Amin Yousuf
Secretary General PFUJ & Chairman Special Committee.

Dear Mr Yousuf,

Let me state at the outset that I did not feel too good with the tone
and tenor of your letter that preferred presuming that through various
media outlets, both mainstream and social, I have been projected as if
belonging to a dirty group of journalists who are found habitually
involved in financial "scams/blames/charges." Since it has pained my
colleagues and comrades, inconsolably, a 4-member committee of the
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists had been established to probe
into these allegations and you were made the Chairman of it.

While issuing a visibly strong-worded 'show cause notice' to me, you
have invoked Article XXII and Rule 3 of the PFUJ's constitution. Doing
this, you simply ignored a fundamental principle of justice which
clearly suggests that allegations only attain some worth if
appropriately put before an appropriate forum. My inclusion in a list
of media persons allegedly getting money from Bharia Town owner was
generated through social media. No one owned it, but in my specific
case it was widely spread by Dr Awab Alwi, the son of a PTI leader in
Karachi and his supporters who are found diligently engaged in
spreading the revolutionary message of Imran Khan. Through my writings
and talk show, I have been consistently challenging the 'revolutionary
credentials' of this group. Yet, none of them ever dared to approach
an appropriate forum, including the PFUJ, with any evidence of corrupt
practices by me. All of them rather continuously 'disown' issuing the
said list. Yet, you and the PFUJ considered the same list worth
probing. While putting questions to me on the basis of it, please also
make some effort to locate those who are spreading stories to malign
your colleagues like me.

I am not a novice to journalism. Since 1975, I did nothing but
full-time journalism and most of my community members should have been
knowing all about me. I feel hurt when instead of relying on your
empirical and anecdotal exposure to my person and living style, my
comrades and colleagues have asked me to defend myself against a set
of allegations, which no one is willing to own before any court or any
other appropriate forum. I rather anticipated and perhaps deserved
fierce defense from my comrades and colleagues instead of getting a
visibly strong-worded 'show cause notice' from you.

After putting my discomfort on the record let me know tell you clearly
that my Name is Nusrat Javeed and my father's name is Noor-ul-Din. My
CNIC number is 61101-1204184-7. Currently I am working as Director Aaj
TV and do a daily show called Bolta Pakistan. It goes live from 10 to
11 pm from Monday to Thursday. My salary, whenever it comes after
frequent delays, goes straight to a bank account that is with the
Civic Branch of the MCB. Its number is: 0098554681001960. The tax on
my salary is deducted at the source. Whenever someone desire, I can
submit the detailed transactions in this account to prove as to what
remains the sole monetary input to this account.

For a while I had also worked for Dunya for some months from April
2010 to December 2010. To get my salary from that network, I needed to
open another account with Bank Alfalah. Its number is:
CD-0035-010-20832. It also had no monetary input except the salary the
tax to which had again been deduced at the source. These days, I put
checks, if and when they come; again after deduction of tax at source,
to this account that I get from Express group for writing columns.

I have no account, both within and outside Pakistan, except these two accounts.

During the second government of Ms Bhutto, after thorough probe by all
the intelligence agencies, a list of Islamabad-based journalists was
furnished. Since they were found living on rent for years, they were
to be allotted modest apartments in a complex at G-8. I agreed to get
my name included in this list after much pleading by friends and
well-wishers from my community. But eventually the government was
packed and the whole project was abandoned. Twice, I was warned to pay
outstanding dues to an unfinished apartment in an abandoned complex to
retain its possession. Via forensic analysis of my late
mother-in-law's account, you can find out that she not me had paid
those dues from her savings with the idea of providing a roof to her
only daughter. My wife completed construction of the said flat with
her own savings and income. Since no one is willing to live in that
flat on sufficient rent, I am now in the process of selling it off.

With the money that I may get for selling the said flat, I plan to at
least start construction on a plot of land that I got along with
1200-plus colleagues of mine in media town of Loi Bher.

Many years ago, I had distributed my share in my inherited property in
Lahore to my one brother and five sisters. Except the above-mentioned
properties, I have no immovable assets anywhere, both within and
outside Pakistan.

Currently, I live in House 22, Street 20, F-8/2, Islamabad. This is a
house that my father-in-law had constructed; he retired as a grade 22
officer. His pension from the UN and some money inherited by his wife
helped construction of this house. My wife and her two brothers are
now the owners of it. But both my brothers in law are in no haste to
dispose the said house; primarily considering the fact that their only
sister is married to a so-called "star anchor and celebrity
journalist," who you have now found among the company of media persons
with reputation of being corrupt. In the same context, my wife also
owns a 10-canal piece of land in Shah Allah Ditta, a water deficient
village beyond Golra Sharif in Islamabad.

You are fully authorized to pass on the information that I have
provided to you to any court of law or investigating and intelligence
agency to double-check. You and any of the concerned agency/court can
always charge me for making false statements, if any of the
above-mentioned detailed proved faulty or misleading.

In the meantime, please try to establish a welfare fund as well that I
can approach to meet everyday expenses of my living in those months,
when I do not get any penny from any of the organizations that I work
and write for. After forcing me to expose my real financial worth,
please also work hard to locate persons who have been spreading
stories to malign your comrades and colleagues like me.

(PS): The information I have provided to you, I am also making
available to some of my friends and visitors of my websites. It will
help all those persons, who have any evidence to prove that details
that I have provided in this communication were misleading. But please
anyone claiming otherwise should also be asked to charge me with his
name and other required details to earn the credentials of a
legitimate complainant.

Thanks and Regards

Nusrat Javeed
Aaj TV,
Islamabad.