Pakistan, Feb. 21 -- A journalist is supposed to ask questions. Always. Because answers to those questions tend to raise ten more, one should keep asking them until they get to the finish. Therefore, there wasn't anything fundamentally wrong with senior journalist Matiullah Jan's decision to grill PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari over likely collusion with the establishment outside the Supreme Court. However, since he had dared to put a mainstream leader on the spot in front of a dozen flashing cameras and reporters from all around the world, he should have been just as prepared to submit his rationale or some loosely constructed evidence when asked to substantiate his allegations.

Accusing the representative of a party that has estab...