Indian Urdu papers vs Pakistani papers on terrorism

Aziz Burney, the editor of Rozanama Rashtirya Sahara(Urdu) wrote editorial 'Hind-Pak mein Atankwadi hamle –kiska shadawantra' (April 1, 2009). It is worth reading to know his perception, imaginary judgment on international terrorism . we are producing a part of it:
"If the news of last one month has not been lost upon your mind you might remember that last month i.e. March, 2009 there was an attack in a mosque in Pakistan just after the Namaz of Jumma. And now came the attack on Police Training Centre in Pakistan. The media had created such fear psychosis in advance about the Taliban that after the attacks the fear began to be apprehended as reality. Why is this beyond doubt that this is a conspiracy against Pakistan and India? Who benefitted from the devastation of Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 when a fright of terrorism was created in the public mind? Who proved its supremacy? Who proved himself strong? Who controlled the petro-wealth? Who created the ground for sale of weapons? For how long we will not deliberate on facts. We at Roznama Rashtriya Sahara tried to present “the Truth about 9/11” in a month long report last year. Even today we have more than one thousand pages report on the subject. Those interested in searching news through internet could come across various such reports that prove that not Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden but CIA and Mossad are the suspects. Are Indian Mujahideen in India, Lashkar-e-Taiyyeba in Pakistan, and Al Qaeda are conspiracies of CIA and Mossad? This is bitter but might be truth. India and Pakistan must sit together to think why are they bent on destruction of each other and whose conspiracy can it be?"

The same day Pakistani newspaper Daily News wrote Editorial ( April 1, 2009) here is excerpt:

Mehsudd has tkaen responsibility for the Manawan attack, and threatened to carry out similar operations in the future. The fact is that Pakistan’s enemy number one is the TTP, which commands the chaos-making activities of the Taliban in the tribal areas and Swat and is now expanding its activity to Punjab and the southern region, including Karachi (At Last Pakistan Zeroes in on Baitullah Mehsud, Editorial, Daily News, Pakistan, April 1, 2009).

Who is honest and factually correct Rozanam Rashtriya Sahara or daily News?

Media and Ethics

We received a comment turn query from 'anonymous"(4th comment) who identifies himself as a Hindi journalist(worked with Santosh Bhartiya, the editor of Chauthi Dunia). His queries : ' who is funding Chauthi Dunia and will it survive after the election?' are relevant but do not come under the perview of this blog.

Chauthi Dunia published in its second issue a lead story "BJP ki sarkar Banana chahta hai Mossad"(Mossad wnats to make the BJP government). The author of the report is Dr Manish Kumar. Tis report seems to be an extension of the propaganda by a section of the Urdu press. The writer does not provide any substantial points to prove his theory. The million dollor question is : 'what is the basis of the writer's claim that Mossad wants to make BJP government in the centre?' He takes the resort of usual method of a table story , ie," the information obtained from the intelligence sources". Tomorrow someone can write about any national leader or the party that he or she is an agent of a particular country and the basis of the report will be "intelligence source". Unlike the Hindi and English press , the Urdu press did the same while alleging that CIA and Mossad were behind the 26/11 or 9/11! The writer cites Hindu Jew summit in Delhi on February 5-7, 2009 in which Swami Dayanada Saraswati and 20 Hindu religious leaders participated. he forgets that the Jews are the genuine minority in India. if there is dialogue with Hindu -Christians, Hindu -Muslims then what is wrong if there is a dialogue with Jews or any other religious minority. how does it prove that Mossad doing effort to make BJP government. The ethics of the Press is seriously devalued by such reporting.

I spoke to Santosh Bhartiiya on phone , congratulating him for relaunching Chauthi Dunia after almost two decades, put before him two simple questions: why does not his paper carry counter point of such story. He had not given any direct reply. I was astonished to hear from him that there is no intellectual in the BJP-RSS! I told him that our work also found unsubstantiated propaganda by Urdu papers on terrorism in India. They too blamed Mossad, CIA and others for Mumbai terror attack.

I requested him to review AAtankwad aur Bhartiya Media . He received the book but was non committal for its review.

One thing is common between Chauthi Dunia's reporting and Urdu press : there has been effort to bring Mossad into the center stage of political debate in India . Why so ? This needs separate analysis and investigation.( by RS)