Blog: India’s Pakistan obsession, after pigeon BSF catches deranged-spy

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Blog: India’s Pakistan obsession,
after pigeon BSF catches
deranged-spy

For India it seems bashing
Pakistan isn’t just kosher, it fans
the flame of loyalty to burn
brighter and stronger. Under such
circumstances, it is not surprising
that Pakistan is blamed for sending spy-pigeons, mentally
unstable spies and plotting
conspiracies against its neighbour
by the media. The most recent allegation comes
after the arrest of a man they claim
attacked an Indian Border Security
Force (BSF) convoy. The claim is one
we have heard before, this time
however it isn’t a pigeon but a deranged man identified as Usman
Khan aka Qasim aka Navaid who
claims he travelled for 12 days
through the jungle with an
accomplice and had been in India
for two days to do ‘Gods work’. While Pakistan’s National Database
and Registration Authority (NADRA)
dismissed Indian allegations stating
on Thursday that Usman Khan is not
Pakistani, the mainstream Indian
media – excited like a child learning how to whistle – continues to blow
hard drawing parallels between
Usman Khan and Ajmal Kasab
hoping to create the same piercing
noise associated with a clean-
whistle. Towing the same line mainstream
journalists have chosen, one Indian
journalist pointed out reasons why
Khan is most likely mentally
unstable; but even in trying to
prove his argument (that all is not well upstairs with Khan) the
journalist still maintained the
argument that Khan is a terrorist. The Indian Express also tows the
same line but does mention the
conflicting claims the deranged-
Khan ahs made. Khan allegedly told
his captors he arrived with one
accomplice 12 days ago but to the police he said he arrived in the first
week of June. Another Indian Express story plays
on Pakistani media’s silence on the
issue; pointing towards the
backlash media outlets faced when
they identified Kasab as Pakistani.
It quotes a retired Pakistani Brigadier terming the accusations
impossible because of heavy
military presence on the Indian side
of the border, terming the
allegations an excuse to discontinue
peace talks. It is a sad day for those hoping for
better India-Pakistan relations;
when Pakistani Bajrangi Bhaijaans
are standing up to help Geeta find
her home, Indian media and even
politicians are keen to jam the cog- wheels of anything that may warm
hearts and pave the path for peace. For those carrying the batons and
those holding torches along the
path, the Indian media is proving to
be a storm determined to blow out
the flames and disorient the relay
runner. It is not difficult to understand why
the Indian media overdoses itself at
times like this; it brings in ratings
that otherwise require a lot of
legwork. For the men and women
in the Indian media getting ahead of themselves becomes excusable
when cashing in on a story like
Khan’s. However, when the Home Minister
of India tells the parliament that
Navaid aka Usman aka Qasim – a
man who should surely be
undergoing mental-evaluation – is a
Pakistani terrorist who hails from Faisalabad, one can only wonder if
over the course of the next few
weeks we will see another video
on social media of another Indian
official accidentally exposing to the
world the reality of the two alleged Pakistani terrorists that felled
armed BSF soldiers and injured
nearly a dozen more. Whether his name is Khan and he is
a terrorist, or not, time will tell.
Until then all those real life Bajrangi
Bhaijaans who were trying to get
Geeta home, please sit down your
moment has come and passed. The views expressed in this blog do
not necessarily reflect the views of
the Jang Group and Geo News.

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