KARACHI: This is with reference to Kamran Shafi’s article of December 9 titled “Selective memory and ‘kutti’ diplomacy”.
Media members of the ‘ghairat brigade’ are regularly subjecting hapless viewers to an orchestrated litany of lies emanating from their ‘leadership’.
I am not a fan of Husain Haqqani but by all accounts he has been deemed guilty without even being subjected to a fair trial. In the meantime, issues like the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, the Mehran airbase attack, the ongoing death and torture of young Baloch, are all being deliberately brushed under the carpet. Surely, questions should have been asked from the government and the military following May 2 given that the US choppers penetrated deep inside Pakistan, reaching a city that is a mere 100 kilometres from the federal capital. Instead, we used it to, yet again, adopt a jingoistic posture vis-à-vis the outside world.
The fear of the military sadly permeates our society. As yet, no journalist has had the gumption to question the several glaringly contradictory statements issued by the ISPR and senior army officials on the Salala checkpost incident. From these ‘authoritatively’ confused statements, one can make out that something is obviously being hidden from us — but what it is, we will probably never really know.
A reader
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2011.
