[Reader-list] Another man spreading lies

[rashneek kher]

Thanks Shuddha...good work bro...kuch pandito ka bhi pata kar dete bhai..i
shall be grateful

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul
<kauladityaraj at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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Rashneek Kher
http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com