cop out anyone? Okay i'll stick to topic.
The article published on the opening page is written by someone named Christina Palmer. According to the daily mail itself, Christina Palmer is a pseudonym. Here is the press release -
The Daily Mail - Daily News from Pakistan - Newspaper from Pakistan
Very senior non Indian journalist? A quick browse through the website reveals that one of the very senior non Indian journalist working for the paper is Ahmed Quraishi. Credibility down the drain.
So why would such a paper publish a front line story under a pseudo name? Is it really as the paper claims "due to security threats" ? If that were true, why don't respected publications like the dawn also use pseudo names for their India correspondents ? Do they not perceive this so called security threat for their correspondent in India?
Lets leave that aside and move on to the article itself. It is firstly written in a half baked manner. Incoherent to the last sentence. It claims to have uncovered a cover up on the basis of investigations and quotes certain figures of importance in the Indian security establishment.
The first question to be asked is this - How did this investigation come about? A correspondent who is in apparent fear of his/her life and hence is using a pseudonym is able to get quotes of important security figures?
Not only that, but this correspondent is able to uncover a controversial move by the Indian army/defence ministry that no other media outlet has even the inkling of? Is this shadow journalist Batman? or Batgirl?
The truth is no such investigation took place, because no such measure to prevent suicide was given the go ahead. The Indian army is not in the sexual exploitation business, it is not full of pimps.
Such an article does nothing to the army's reputation , however it does do a whole lot to Pakistani media's credibility. If the article is a figment of the writers imagination, The question to be asked is that does the writer think that all women in the armed forces are prostitutes? It would not be a new view. Till the late 20th century, working women in patriarchal societies were considered "loose" . Indeed such an attitude is still prevalent in some societies. The article is proof of it.
Moreover, if such a newspaper can get away with posting such incoherent rubbish which will no doubt be swallowed by its gullible readership, the question to be asked is what else is the Pakistani media feeding its people? India and a TTP relation perhaps??.......
One hopes that respected news organizations in Pakistan would not stoop to this new low in Pakistan-India propaganda.