Dr Umer Adil calls female anchors ‘keeps’

During a podcast, Dr. Umar Adil made the outrageous statement that, ‘’All female anchors in media have come here by recommendation. Almost all of them are keeps of influential people.”

Talking on the podcast ‘Dill Ki Baat’ with Zohaib Butt, he said, “These anchors are somehow in touch with the high profile persons of Pakistan.”

He added that even their show’s producers have no guts to tell them anything or criticize them on their mistakes. In fact, in those cases, producers leave the show and run away.

 Continuing with the misogynistic rant, he said the industry is suffering from “gender discrimination”. Lest the listeners think that he was making a proper observation, he went on to say, “Female anchors always get positive discrimination and they are treated in an extraordinary manner and nobody cares about the male anchor sitting next to the female anchor.”