[Reader-list] Another man spreading lies

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Dear all,

Shuddha makes for a great journalist. I hope and pray that he replaces
Barkha Dutt or Sagarika Ghose or both.

By the way, Could you also verify the alleged exodus of 6 Kashmiri Pandit
families or wasn't it on your list of priorities?

best regards and Great job done, really.
-- 
Aditya Raj Kaul

India Editor
The Indian, Australia

Web: http://activistsdiary.blogspot.com/


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM, shuddha at sarai.net <shuddha at sarai.net>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> This did not get sent to the list, by mistake
>
> best,
>
> Shuddha
>
>
> Original Message
> ----------------
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Another man spreading lies
> From: "shuddha at sarai.net" <shuddha at sarai.net>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:48:43 +0530
>
> Dear Rashneek,
>
> Ahmed Ali Fayyaz is not exactly an unknown quantity when it comes to the
> dishing out of 'processed' news from the Kashmir valley. He has plied this
> trade for a long time. Some of us are quite familiar with his body of work.
>
> That said, yes, a boy did get hurt, and yes, his name is Imtiyaz Ahmed Dar
> S/o
> Ghulam Nabi Dar R/o Shilwat, Sonawari. But he is not 12, he is 15, and
> studies
> in the 9th class (not that this makes a difference,as far as the substance
> of
> the story goes).
>
> I asked a friend to make enquiries about the boy. He did, and spoke the
> boy's
> uncle, Mohammed Ramzan Dar, who is also the head of the family. According
> to
> his uncle, the Boy had gone to Sumbul town to buy notebooks. While at the
> shop
> he got hit on the head with a stone. There was no crowd, no stone pelters.
> A
> stray stone, which could have been lobbed by a miscreant, or by anyone, hit
> him. He was immediately rushed to a doctor in the town, his family was
> informed, a cousin came and then he was then taken by taxi to SKIMS Soura.
>
> Luckily, the boy was NOT (contrary to the report) injured seriously. He
> does
> not have a visible wound, the person I spoke to has also spoken to the
> doctor
> who examined and treated the boy. The doctor has said that he has a
> hairline
> fracture. He has been given first aid and medication, and sent home. He is
> not
> in a critical condition, is out of danger and is recovering.
>
> The doctor also informed him that SKIMS Soura alone has had to treat 136
> serious injuries from bullets, tear gas shells, baton charges and the
> occasional stone, (lobbed both by protestors and lobbed back by the
> security
> forces)
>
>
> This is by no means to overlook the fact that in the stone pelting,
> ordinary
> people have gotten hurt (either by accident, or due to stones thrown back
> by
> security forces) . But then, whenever possible, they have usually been
> rushed
> to hospitals by local people. The ferrying of people has of course often
> had to
> face the normal Kashmiri obstacle of a curfew.
>
> So, yes, some of what Ahmed Ali Fayyaz has written in his report,
> especially
> stating that the boy had a 'critical injury' is partly the work of his
> imagination.
>
> Even informers usually do a better job.
>
> best
>
> Shuddha
>
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:25:23 +0530 rashneek kher <rashneek at gmail.com> wrote
>
> > I do not claim to know the authencity of this news.I think all he writes
> > here could be his imagination neither do i know who the stone pelters
> > were...
> >
> > http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=57784
> >
> > NO HINDI FONTS OR TRANSLATION REQUIRED.
> >
> > the journos profile is in the link below,just in case we may want to sue
> him
> >
> >
> http://aafayyaz.blogspot.com/2010/08/12-year-old-critically-injured-in-stone
> .
> > html?spref=fb
> >
> > best regards
> > --
> > Rashneek Kher
> > http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
> > http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com
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