Hindu extremists attack Pak journalists in India

[Trooper]

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The extremists of a Hindu religious organisation, Shri Ram Sena attacked a group of Pakistani journalists here on Wednesday.

According to an Indian news channel, the Shri Ram Sena extremists thronged New Delhi’s International Center where a meeting of Indo-Pak Forum was going on. They thrashed visiting Pakistani journalists and chanted anti-Pakistan slogans. Senior Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yousufzai was busy going through an article published in an Indian newspapers when the poignant incident took place.

Later, an Indian journalist told Geo news that the person shown in the video footage was a Shri Ram Sena extremist and not a Pakistani journalist.

 

[SurvivoR]

Pakistani journalists manhandled in New Delhi

Wednesday, 15 Apr, 2009 | 04:47 PM PST |


NEW DELHI: Members of Hindu rightwing group Sri Rama Sena Wednesday disrupted a seminar of Indian and Pakistani journalists in the capital, shouting slogans against Pakistan.

The seminar, 'Is Media Jingoism Fanning India-Pak Problem?', had been organised by the Foundation for Media Professionals. Some Pakistani journalists were also attending it.


Owning responsibility for the act, Sene national general secretary Binay Kumar Singh said: 'Everything was pre-planned as we wanted to disrupt the seminar.' He said around 30 members of the group were present there.
'Speakers at the seminar were making comments against India and they were relating India with recent terror attack on a police academy in Lahore. How can one listen to it? Pakistan has become a global problem and war is the only solution,' alleged Singh.

Speakers included noted author Arundhati Roy, columnist Swapan Dasgupta, Nirupama Subramanian, Hindu correspondent in Islamabad and Amit Baruah,Hindustan Times foreign editor.


A security official at IIC said on condition of anonymity, 'While the discussion was on, some Sene members started shouting anti-Pakistan slogans like 'Pakistan is a global problem and war is the solution'. It spread commotion in seminar room and discussion was suspended for 15-20 minutes.'
Security officials along with some Indian journalists caught hold of Sene members and whisked them away after which the seminar resumed. Police said no official report has been lodged in the matter so far.


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