ARY UK Apologizes From PML-N’s Ishaq Dar

Web Desk — Private channel New Vision TV, the broadcaster of ARY UK, has issued an apology to PML-N’s Ishaq Dar and said its allegations of corruption and misuse of authority against the former finance minister were fabricated.

The defamatory remarks were made in two news shows aired by the channel on July 8, 2019, and Aug 8, 2019.

In ARY’s programme, Powerplay, Shahzad Akbar alleged that Ishaq Dar had managed and actively impeded the work of the Financial Monitoring Unit in Pakistan by preventing institutions from accessing the systems. It was also alleged that Mr. Dar had taken these steps to protect individuals involved in the Choudhury Sugar Mills money laundering case.

In a statement of apology aired on Monday by ARY UK at 6 pm, ARY UK accepted that “[Mr. Dar] never managed the Financial Monitoring Unit… never impeded [its] work, nor did he do anything to protect anybody in any case including the alleged Choudhury Sugar Mills case”.

“We unconditionally apologize to Mr. Ishaq Dar for the significant distress, upset and embarrassment which these broadcasts have caused him,” the channel said in the statement.