Pakistan’s favourite Indian journalist Barkha Dutt has found praise yet again from our enemy nation. This time, an Additional IGP in Pakistan has endorsed her statement to peddle Pakistan’s agenda of claiming human rights violations in Kashmir.
Barkha had commented over a person’s tweet which said that he has not been able to speak to his family for five days due to the blockage of phone communications in the valley. Barkha had stated that the ‘information blockade’ is not humane.
Open the phone lines. No matter where you stand, what you think, lift this information blockade. It is not humane. #Kashmir https://t.co/MpXsD3zRLV
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) August 9, 2019
Jamil Ahmed, whose Twitter bio says he is the additional IG of police of Sukkur region in Pakistan and ‘ex-chief of CIA’ in Karachi, endorsed Barkha’s tweet and used it as a confirmation of Pakistan’s propaganda over the Kashmir issue.
Ahmed claimed that he hopes ‘educated, moderate and secular’ elements in India will listen to Barkha and raise their voices against the human rights violations in ‘Indian held Kashmir’. He also stated that it is time for the civilised world to play a proactive role in this ‘grave human crisis’.
Ignoring the stark irony of a Pakistani police officer speaking about human rights and ‘civilised world’, the tendency of Pakistani terrorists and their masters finding Barkha’s statements a suitable material for their propaganda peddling is something that has been strangely consistent.
Earlier, Zaid Hamid, another Islamic extremist who dreams about ‘Ghazwa e Hind’ had also used Barkha’s tweets to peddle Pakistan’s agenda.
Barkha’s fan following in Pakistan includes terrorist Hafiz Saeed and other prominent voices there whose narratives against India matches perfectly with what Barkha says. From fanning separatist voices to making terrorists into heroes, Barkha, for years, has been doing exactly what Pakistan wants.
Yesterday, NDTV had found endorsement from Pakistan too. However, after facing severe flak on social media, NDTV had attempted to cover up their mistakes by claiming that Pakistan has quoted them out of context and ‘edited together different excerpts’ which was another lie.
Barkha too was quick to declare on Twitter that she denounces this endorsement from Pakistan and asked Ahmed to ‘stay out of India’s internal conversations’.
Nothing civilised about the role Pakistan is playing in Kashmir by fomenting terrorism. Kindly stay out of our internal conversations and debates.
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) August 9, 2019
There are a number of media portals and so-called ‘liberal’ journalists who are trying to fan an anti-India narrative over the Kashmir issue. There are journalists continuously peddling claims that human rights are being violated after the stripping of Article 370. However, these ‘liberal’ voices never bothered to point out the gross human rights violations that were being practised as a part of state policy in Jammu and Kashmir till now in the name of Article 370 and 35A.
