[Reader-list] Which one is 'processed news'? A A Fayyaz & Greater Kashmir

[shuddha at sarai.net]

Dear Kshmendra, 

No disagreement with you on this score at all. 

If Asiya Andrabi (in my opinion, one of the most ridiculous charlatans to have
been thrown up on the separatist side in Kashmir) had indeed said - 

'minorities would HAVE to observe shutdowns under the Quit Jammu and Kashmir
Movement', 

and that

 'everybody would have to live with a sense of insecurity as long as the
Kashmiri Muslims struggled for "freedom for Islam' - 

- and that these two specific utterances have been ommitted by Greater Kashmir
in their report of her statement then they are clearly committing shoddy
journalism. If Asiya Andrabi is not embarrassed to say this kind of nonsense,
Greater Kashmir has no business covering up after her. That too, then, is I
agree, 'processed news'. 

I totally agree with you about the fact that political leader issuing a
secterian diktat like a street thug who might just as easiy have belonged to
the Shiv Sena or the MNS in Mumbai is something that should definitely have
been reported. 

best

Shuddha

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Kshmendra Kaul
<kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote

> Asiya Andrabi of Dukhtaraan e Millat issues a statement. Please see the news
> report on that by A A Fayyaz of Early Times (who has been accused of
> providing 'processed news') and in Greater Kashmir (which unabashedly covers
> and reports news with a tilt towards the separatists).
>  
> Remember that both are reporting on a issued statement. Notice how
> convieniently Greater Kashmir does not make any mention of the threatening
> and rabidly-Islamic parts of Asiya's statement
>  
> FIRST A A FAYYAZ in Early Times:
>  
> Asiya surprised by minority's tears over insecurity
>  
> 'They (Hindus, Sikhs) will have to be part of Quit J&K Movement'  
>  
> Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
> EARLY TIMES REPORT
> SRINAGAR, Aug 9: Dukhtaraan-e-Millat chairperson and radical separatist
> leader, Asiya Andrabi, today said that the non-Muslim minorities were free to
> join or not to join Kashmir's "freedom struggle" but she made it clear that
> they will have to observe shutdown over the separatists' calls and become a
> part of the current 'Quit Jammu & Kashmir Movement'.
>  
> Disappointed over reports that two delegations of the Hindus and the Sikhs
> had called on the Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and "wept
> bitterly" over the sense of their insecurity, Dukhtaraan chief said that it
> had hurt the sentiments of the majority community in Kashmir.
>  
> "Delegations of Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti and All-party Sikh
> Coordination Committee have badly hurt the sentiments of the Muslims of
> Kashmir by weeping bitterly over their insecurity and choosing this form the
> expression before Syed Ali Shah Geelani", Asiya said in a statement released
> here this evening. According to her, Pandits and Sikhs were free to join or
> not to join the "freedom struggle" but they could not be exempted from
> observing shutdown over the calls issued by the Valley's separatist leaders.
> "Whenever, there is a call for shutdown, nobody will be allowed to operate
> shops or vehicles. They (Pandits and Sikhs) will have to essentially show
> their solidarity with Jammu Kashmir Chhordo Tehreek (by closing businesses
> and freezing vehicles on the days of shutdown)", Asiya said.
> 
> According to her, the religious minorities in Kashmir would have to join
> 'Quit Jammu & Kashmir Movement' as both, majority as well as minority, would
> have to taste the fruit of the freedom together (after winning it whenever).
> 
> Delegations of Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs had called on Mr Geelani here on
> Sunday and wept bitterly over their sense of insecurity. They had,
> reportedly, lamented before the octogenarian separatist leader over incidents
> of certain people harassing and forcing them to join the separatist
> demonstrations and other such programmes. Geelani, according to reports, had
> assured them nobody would be allowed to carry on activities aimed at causing
> another migration of the minorities.
> 
> In her angry terse reaction, 50-year-old Dukhtaraan supremo claimed that the
> Kashmiri Muslims had always taken "extraordinary care" of the non-Muslim
> minorities. "Whenever an affliction did befall on the minorities, there was
> invariably an Indian sinister plan behind. From the mass migration of Pandits
> in 1990 to the massacre (of Sikhs and Pandits) at Chittisinghpura and
> Nadimarg, all these catastrophes were the handiwork of top Indian
> intelligence agencies. Kashmiri Muslims are extremely sensitive and humane",
> Asia added.
>  
> Andrabi claimed that even in the current days of crisis, Muslims had been
> providing maximum of the relief to the non-Muslims, who, according to her,
> had admitted it for themselves in various statements.
>  
> "In 2008, (members of) Sangharash Samiti burnded alive a number of Kashmiri
> Muslim drivers. It was all horrible and heart-rending but we observed maximum
> of our restraint and did not harm even a single (Amarnath shrine) pilgrim",
> Asiya asserted. As for providing security to the non-Muslim minorities, she
> argued that the majority community itself was at the receiving end as none of
> their lives and properties were secure. "When we are ourselves insecure, how
> can we guarantee security of the minorities?" she asked. "Minorities can ask
> for security from the majority only after we get freedom from India", she
> added. She said that everybody would have to live with a sense of insecurity
> as long as the Kashmiri Muslims struggled for "freedom for Islam".
>  
> Meanwhile, after Geelani, Jamaat-e-Islami has also assured security and
> dignity to members of the non-Muslim communities in Kashmir. A spokesman of
> the organization said in a statement today that the minorities were an
> integral part of the Kashmir society and they would have to feel secure.
> 
> Meanwhile, Kashmir valley today observed total shutdown over Mr Geelani's
> call of three days of "protest strike". Authorities declared and enforced
> curfew in Srinagar while as similar restrictions were in place at almost all
> over district headquarters and major townships with formal announcement of
> curfew. Reports said that there was no major incident of violation or clash
> with forces, though thin groups of youngsters clashed with Police and CRPF at
> some places. Official sources said that not a single bullet was fired
> anywhere as the unruly groups dispersed by tearsmoke. These reports said that
> a mob manhandled a Police constable and torched his motorcycle at Shopian.
> http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=57836
>  
>  
> NEXT Greater Kashmir:
>  
> Srinagar, Aug 9:
>  
> The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Syeda Aasiya Andrabi on Monday said
> the representatives of minority community have hurt the sentiments of
> Kashmiris by claiming to be unsafe in the Valley.
> 
> In a statement, Aasiya maintained that Kashmiris have been treating the
> minority community as part of the Kashmiri society and maintaining
> brotherhood with them.
> Aasiya was reacting to the concern shown by the representative of Kashmir
> Pandit Sangharsh Samiti and All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee during a
> meeting on Sunday with the Chairman Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
> 
> “How can the people of minority community forget that Indian agencies were
> behind the migration of Kashmiri Pandits and massacres at Chattisinghpora and
> Nadimarg? Despite passing through trepidation, Kashmiris Muslims are
> presently distributing relief among the people of minority community,”
> Aasiya said.
> 
> Aasiya said during the Amarnath land row, some communal parties had
> ruthlessly killed the Kashmiri drivers. “But we maintained calm. Kashmiris
> ensure that despite the ongoing unrest the Amarnath yatris perform the
> pilgrimage smoothly,” she said.
> 
> She said at a time when Kashmiris were themselves feeling insecure and being
> victims of human rights violation, how can they ensure protection to
> others.  
> 
> “Unless we achieve freedom from India, nobody in Kashmir is secure. We
> expect the members of minority community to extend support to our cause,”
> she said.
> http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2010/Aug/10/nobody-secure-in-kashmir-aasiy
> a-39.asp
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