I was deeply disappointed with your paper and myself for being taken for a ride.
KARACHI: I was deeply disappointed with your paper and myself for being taken for a ride by what, on second thoughts, should have been seen as an obvious piece of disinformation. I refer, of course, to the fake WikiLeaks documents purporting to be cables from the American Embassy in New Delhi published in your paper's issue of December 9. Although, it seems, that The Express Tribune and I were not the only ones to have been so duped there is no gainsaying the fact that better and more intrusive investigation may have revealed them to have been fake. To that extent we were both remiss.
As the article bearing my name in December 10’s issue of your paper was prompted entirely by what these fake cables contained, and which now turn out to have been palpably false, I would like you to publish this retraction and to convey to your readers my unreserved apologies.
Zafar Hilaly
Published in The Express Tribune, December 11th, 2010.
