Pakistan's First Sikh Journalist Harmeet Singh Terminated from Job

On Friday last, Pakistan’s first Sikh journalist and anchor, Harmeet Singh was terminated from his job by Public TV. He was sacked after a complaint by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former minister Shazia Atta Marri, who blamed Harmeet for spreading fake news about the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) raid on her and recovery of PKR 97 billion from her possession. Harmeet - who also runs his own YouTube channel - said he had shared the news after the same was circulated in several local news channels and several independent journalists of Sindh on their social media accounts. After he learned the news was fake, he deleted the tweet and sent a written apology to Shazia Marri acknowledging his mistake. Instead of accepting his apology, Shazia sent him a legal notice of a PKR 10 billion defamation case and used her political power to dismiss him from his job.