*ISLAMABAD – **Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhryresponds over issue of slapping journalist Sami Ibrahim.*
*Fawad Chaudhry, the minister for science and technology in Prime MinisterImran Khan’s cabinet, has admitted that he slapped Bol Newsanchor SamiIbrahim.*
According to *BBC Urdu link*,Ibrahim and Chaudhry came face to face at a wedding Thursday night inFaisalabad.
The minister told *BBC Urdu* that he slapped Ibrahim after he got angry.Chaudhry said that he made a new advertisement policy when he was ministerfor information and divided the channels into A, B, C and D categories onthe basis of ratings.
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Ibrahim, he said, approached him and asked him to put his channel intocategory A and asked for an adjustment of Rs20 million.
Chaudhry said that Ibrahim ran a campaign against him and tried toblackmail him when he [Chaudhry] declined. However, Ibrahim said that hewas sitting with PTI MNA Farrukh Habib, FIA DG Bashir Memon as well asjournalists Rauf Klasra and Arshad Sharif last night at a wedding when heheard someone using abusive language.
