In today’s social media-dominated landscape, sometimes people start to believe everything that comes their way. In one such instance, recently the news of a newspaper delivery boy clearing Central Superior Service (CSS) exam was doing the rounds across social media.
The news claimed that Ghazanfar Ilyas, a resident of Bannu in KPK, who was a newspaper delivery boy in Lahore and that he has cleared his CSS examination against all odds. The news also claimed that he refused a PhD admission in an American university, and that Data Darbar was the source of his food and shelter.
The news also got picked up by a lot of top print and electronic media outlets.
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The Truth Behind This ‘Newspaper Delivery Boy’
The alleged ‘newspaper delivery boy’ took to his social media handle to clear the air regarding the news being widely circulated.
The person in question is Ghazanfar Ilyas. In a post on his Facebook profile, he set the record straight.
Although, he did confirm that the news regarding his passing of CSS examination is legitimate, however, he was never a newspaper boy.
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Ghazanfar ilyas stated that this news has been deliberately spread in order to defame him. He also announced to take action against those who ran this malicious news.
“This is to clear that I’ve neither worked as a newspaper delivery man nor stayed at Datadarbar Lahore during my CSS preparation. Someone has made a deliberate counterfeit to defame me on social media. I am going to launch a legal action against those who propagated this false news.”
Ghazanfar Ilyas is currently serving with the Pakistan Audit and Account Service. He had done his MPhil from Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad in Biotechnology.
