Someone suggesting Gulfnews as an authentic publisher. Well, they picked the story just like a couple of others in Pakistan. None of them had any source but only a tweet from an Afghan journalist on February 6th. The journalist who writes for New York Times, couldn't write the same on NYTimes, instead tweeted. The topic stayed on Twitter trends with only a few thousand tweets and disappeared.
No major paper or publisher (domestic or international) covered the story with any kind of authentic source. In fact, Indian publishers, who are always eager to publish such a piece of information that would hurt Pakistan's interest, missed that news. Why? Think about that...
Before yesterday's twitter trend, if you guys missed out, the news first appeared on some
unknown Indian newspaper on
January 18th. The story didn't pace up and wasn't picked up by even a single publisher. There was no twitter trend as well. The story got dead.
Now, what is this all about? If this is true, it has to be big news then why didn't anyone covered it?
I am not sure how Sabir Shakir put it the way as he was released and his release was a part of on-going negotiations with Taliban. It's acceptable as Pakistan is the key factor between US and Afghanistan in the matter. Quite possible Pakistan may do some unpopular decisions, unlike India which actually would hang innocents only because its public wants that way.
It's a truth that if only a couple of newspapers covered the story in the first 24 hours, or if I count from the first appearance on January 18th, 20 days, the story of escape is false.
If he's released, then no one needs to cry about it because it's intentional and will have its strings attached. If it's a part of some negotiations which also made US release Afghan Taliban or what, why the news of the escape of Ehsanullah Ehsan popped up?
Easy answer: Thanks to Indian fake news broadcasters who have been busted multiple times.
Bonus point here. Gulfnews article is also written by some Indian. Thanks