Indian Media Coverage of Mumbai Attacks

by MJK on November 29, 2008

The way the Indian media is covering the incident of Mumbai is remarkable. I must salute them for their nationalist stance and the way they have put the blame on Pakistan when the operation was not even over. I was just watching the Indian tv channels and it seemed as if India is fighting some big war. National anthems and patriotic songs are being played, the soldiers are projected as heroes and people are shown showering praises on the commando force and NTS. I must say that it is worth a  lesson to learn for our media channels who give more importance to the terrorists point of view instead of galvanizing our military and our police.

A little deeper look into the whole Mumbai episode make it utterly clear that the response by Indian forces and commandos was poor and that they failed in protecting anyone. Even the famous clips where the commandos are jumping from helicopters is by all technical means the most stupid step. It is more of a media stunt rather then a result of some prudent planning. As a result we all know that all the hostages of Jewish origin got killed in the operation. The Indian media still projected it as a “Successful Operation”. They never bothered to tell the world that only 25 people made the whole Mumbai as a hostage. While here in Pakistan, thousands and thousands of terrorists and expert RAW agents have failed to inflict any major causalities on our military and para military forces.

The India media is mum on the fact that the Karkare, the Chief of NTS, who was investigating the case of Hindu terrorists and extremists involved in train bombings has been killed in the Mumbai episode and hence there is a strong chance that the much bigger group that supported the Hindu extremists have realized their goal of eliminating their main enemy in the form of Mr. Karkare.

It is high time that our media learn from the Indian Media and try to show more responsible behaviour when it comes to issue of national integrity and our political leaders try to realize the fact that being too soft on the baseless accusations on our country by Indian media is properly analyzed and given a befitting response.

Our forces are giving utmost sacrifices in defending our country yet we failed to ever give them the respect that they rightly deserve while Indians have made heroes of their soldiers and police officers who lost their lives in the Mumbai episode. It is high time that we change out attitude and become more responsible in our behaviour as a nation.

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1 think 11.30.08 at 8:54 am

I totally agree with the Autor of this article. Pakistani Media need to be much more expressive in pointing out the whole situation and exploring the fact that India is the one, who at the end, will solely gain from Mumbai terrorist actions.
Pakistan, at one hand, is facing tremendous local problems Inflation, electricity shortage security etc., and on the Other hand the fight against terrorism made the security situation worst then ever, so Pakistan doesn’t seem to gain any achivements from this.

I don’t see Pakistani media exploring the Fact that Indian Agencies are always have been involved in Balochistan and now Afghan insurgencies in Pakistan like the way Indian media blindly point out the finger to pakistan.

At the end like the “Samjhoota Express” case, where Indian authorties were very quick to blame Pakistan and where Indian Army found out to be involved, soon will be the reallity of Mumbai attacks discovered.
However, Pakistani media need not to be defensive and need to perform Bold actions on international level against this non sense Blame game of India.

Regards,

2 onix 11.30.08 at 1:28 pm

the first piece of your analyse , with the indian media is very important.
For me because i didn’t know that and it is very revealing.

unfortunately i have to agree with most of the rest you say, and conclude that the conclusions i tend to draw are actually even more obvious for you.

There is one peculiar aspect of the indian operation that was rather succesfull,
a large group of western euro parlementarians etc. was succesfully and on an apparently relatively easy and controlled manner guided outside via the pool, where they apparently had been lying down an hour. They took 1 indian.
later people escaped that used the same pool door.

this suggest the numerous security officials that must have been abound started some gunbattle, or had a contact with the attackers. Meanwhile apparently indian policeppl’s lives were sacrificed in a distraction operation via the entrances.
(and some nr of whites made remarkable escapes)

at least my reasoning suggests that the rescue of foreigners was succesfull because the attackers were forced to certain areas, like perhaps the second floor. (in de taj).

One thing that clearly shows from the international news is the indian account is in no way consistent, yet it is brought as a similar ’succesfull indian operation’ giving headway to the thought the indian propaganda will be echoed.
people have been prepared to believe almost anything after this.

yet in my blame game, i perceive the indians less of a factor then you, i think the main cause is the terror war. The attack on afghanistan, and the following occupation. far on the background matters like iraq play a role, but a simplistic model suffices to proof the point.

The pakistani proposals maybe only marginally different from the indian policy over kashmir, and i hate seeing my fear about Karkare confirmed.. yet, what are these differences, you should mention them to be credible.

I can easily imagine pakistan feels like, we are not going to let the kashmiri down after all this, completely, the formula for that would be an interntional one, what is reasonable in the indian policy’s in kashmir, and what can reasonably be asked? I doubt that the current pakistan would have a real say in that. I am not interested in a kashmir or india that rewards murder with guns.

You don’t touch the ethnic interelation between the pakistani problems (1000s and 1000s of terrorists), and the pakistani, kashmiri ones, because it’s convenient to overlook that in a pakistani view. That means your attitude would not suffice to solve the coreproblem. (the way US, pakistan and india treat pashtun)

Yet i agree with most of what you say, and think it is a promising analyses.
todays alJ figures, suggest some 40-50 police and army died, perhaps a cover so that mr karkare doesnt stand out so much? It is very probable exactly hindu sentiments would be abused to create the kind of weaponselling atmosphere the capitalist aproach seeks. I doubt that to label that zio-hindu is very helpfull.

I understand it, yet i doubt it. Like here in europe or the us, very different circles then zio-yurpeans or zio-usians also contribute to the intolerance.
I would guess that is anywhere, india, pakistan etc. etc.

nationalism would be just the thing to get yourself bombed. (it promotes weapon sales and the focus of operations is pretty much afhanistan> pakistan> kashmir>>??
(tibet? china?)) The world hasn’t shown itself very patient with pakistan,(islam), india’s blunt policy’s apparently don’t suffice to change that attitude.
There is also the matter of scale, as long as india behaves as a “Western” nation, western policy would allow it the operational room it has to allow china, for instance.. , but there isn’t another example. If you don’t have the mechanics of 700m population you only know you don’t know how to deal with them.

3 Indian 12.01.08 at 5:45 am

Hey , It was not failed operation only 2 Nsg Commandos and Over 500 people were saved , Only five hostages was dead which 1%.

4 No need of it 12.01.08 at 8:13 am

No doubt about the indian media role to integrate peoples and helping the forces morals high besides Whatever indians shows on media is a lie and we all knows that lies end up with an embaressment.

I am not a voter of shaikh rasheed but i do agree with his words about india ” if india go to war, there will be more pakistans in india.

So my fellow, whatever we see on indian media, most of it is a lie, infact we have no actual idea how divided indians are as a nation instead of critising our own nation. we may have 10 or more groups but indian has worst satuation they have 1000s of group inside india working against india, what indian are very good at is COVER UP, offcourse covering up the facts from a big part of land inhabited with hundreds of nations is difficult job but they are good at it.

Pakistani media shows what peoples of pakistan really think and feels, That peoples dieing in northern part of country are not terrorist, we are doing an army operation there like american did in iraq and afganistan and resulting failure of economy and lose pride of their country and army. Its an embarressment for americans to lose a war with billions of $ worth plans and hi-tech.get down to bussiness, We are obeying americans and killing our own peoples, if pakistan ever gonna war with india, the barbaric tribe man are the only hope for us to defend pakistan like they always did, they librated kashmir and only they have balls to continous insurgency against indian occupied forces in kashmir.

we are obeying and fighting american war, Look at IRAN, iran is smaller then us, they have less trained army, with less technology n skills but what they really have is courage which we are laking, worst enemy of pakistan’s history musharaf betrayed pakistan, if we take a stance like iran did on its issue we wont be in a problem like we are in now. Americans already lose their stomach for war and wont be able to do anything about iran, its over, iranian wins without a war, and we are lossers cuz what we dont have is COURAGE and MORALS.

ALLAH DEFEND PAKISTAN AMEN

5 Indian 12.01.08 at 10:00 am

If Indian operation was unsuccessful then what was successful.. your sponsored butchery by some brainwashed kids by Chacha rehman?
Why Pakistan and its people always go for crooked methods. Jinnah was a crook to create a nation out of nowhere and it can be seen now that every year your country goes to World Bank and Americans and Britishers for some funding, Why?
Indian Operation was successful because some pakistani thought to kill 5000 could only kill 200. You guys spend all your money to spend some inhuman so called Mujahideen… and feed their mind that whole world is against muslims but dont realise that India got Muslim president who became so because of his knowledge. Look at your president.. Zardari The playboy of Karachi. how do u think he will lead ur country.

6 Bhopali 12.01.08 at 2:15 pm

Pakistani ppl’s biggest problem is that they got crab mentality. Instead of concentrating on their on progress they spend money on destabilizing other countries.
Have you ever thought that attacks over IraQ/Afganistan etc hated by all the world but why only Pakistan in involved in causing terror. I seriously think that your country got no future. no trade/No culture. You survive on borrowed money. Al quaeda has bought the establishment and I feel sorry for the common people of Pakistan.
Allah Save Pakistan if he can…

7 Hindustan 12.01.08 at 2:30 pm

Reply to -> No need of it on December 1st, 2008 at 8:13 am
“infact we have no actual idea how divided indians are as a nation”

My frd thgh I agree we have our differences …. but u have no idea how united we are whn our motherland is under attck frm losers lik the ones last week.

We are the 2nd fastest economy and with Allah’s blessings we will be the first by 2010. And a mighty economic superpower by 2030. I hope by thn ur country is still existing to witness that.

Good bless u.

8 Bdv Mumbaiya 12.01.08 at 2:33 pm

I love Pakistan and every such thing which is going to be finished in near future.

9 M Junaid Khan 12.01.08 at 4:11 pm

Thats a good thing to love your motherland but our love should not make us blind to the facts. There are so many loopholes in the reports of your own media and try to get some time to realize them. I wonder why only two terrorists got so much media coverage wearing the typical orange color band and why the same terrorist was caught by the security forces to blame Pakistan?
Don’t you think you should sit down and analyze the media statements which are still present on the Google that your media as well as your government issued after the train bombing. In those statements you can see the level of detail that your media presented to implicated Pakistan and in the end, all those are proved as lies. Now i understand and i was the first to condemn the Mumbai incident but i am still not buying the argument that the terrorists have anything to do with our government or our agencies.
And statement of one person is never enough in such high profile cases because we have loads of such people whom our forces captured operating in Tribal areas confessing to be RAW agents supplying weapons and money to the terrorists. Even communication equipment was caught which was purchased by Indians in the past and now used in our tribal areas by the militants is available and most of the intelligence is shared with the Indians as well as Americans.
It is high time that you start looking inside India and try to address the grievances of your fanatics and other minorities who are suffering because of Indian terrorists rather then just blaming Pakistan for every misfortune.

10 hunza 12.01.08 at 4:26 pm

indians you know wat your biggest problem is that u guys r over boosted and u dont know that ur country is soon going to be divided into to so many states that u cant even count them and about ur so called economy , every thing is not exactly the same as it looks , and about your patrotism ha ha ha ha ,ppl who burn their citizens alive wat can we say abt them , and imagine if only 11 mujhaidins can do this , wat is going to happen to u when 600000 muslims will crush u to death and ofcourse you cant rely on ur arm forces cose they have badly failed

11 zuhair 12.01.08 at 6:33 pm

yes you are united in killing
you kill Muslims
you kill Christians
You kill sikhs
you kill Tamils
You kill Sirilankans
you try to destabalise each and every neighbor of yours
STOP dreaming about the end of Pakistan
no matter how we are we are a lot better than our poor Muslim brothers who were not able to migrate. I really thank the Indian agencies that for whatever reason they staged this drama but it has really reminded many of us why ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity was forced to struggle for a separate country
and even in its worst condition a PAkistan is 1000’s times better than the slavery in India

12 Hindustan 12.01.08 at 9:29 pm

Hunza bhai

on ur statement - >”ur country is soon going to be divided into to so many states that u cant even count them ”

Your forefathers also dreamt about this pre 1972 …. wat happened u got divided into half … remember Bangladesh …..

Stop daydreaming and be realistic …. and ur brave so called 11 mujahids took innocent men,women and children hostage and u talk about their bravery.

kabhi toh mardo ke jaisee ladha karoo

13 Vinay 12.02.08 at 6:32 am

Hunza,
With 11 people with so many AK47 and RDX, any person with a pea brain can kill more than 500 innocent people. It is the efficiency of the army that the damage was limited.

14 Vinay 12.02.08 at 6:42 am

Also remember it took one person to kill 200+ people at JW Marriot. One person to end Lincon, Kennedy which put the entire world in crisis. History teaches all these temporary set backs are healed (no offence to people who lost their loved ones and my heart felt condolenses to one irrespective of the country). One person who is ready to give up his life can bring any nation to its knees. It is also rather funny that these terrorists are lured by thae fact that killing themselves would be rewarded with 60 virgins in heaven. Do the women bombers blow themselves up expecting to get rewarded with 60 studs?

15 Bdv Mumbaiya 12.02.08 at 1:30 pm

Muslim brothers… wow. someone said that in pakistan they are worried about the Poor Muslim Brothers.
What do you call your brothers- Muhajirs? isnt it.

16 Azam Hassan 12.02.08 at 7:47 pm

@ people saying Indian Muslims are victimized…we have more Muslims in India than Pakistan and Afghanistan together, i come from a Muslim locality and the Muslims here are well educated ,polite, non extremists and celebrate festivals from all faith, friendly with all communities… they are super cool..And they get priorities in Jobs and education and political say over Hindus as they are a minority .so please stop worrying about us, We are Indians and are proud to be so.

17 Ahmed Zuhair 12.03.08 at 10:28 am

@Bdv Mumbaiya
My grandfather migrated form Ferozpur to Pakistan, was chased by Hindus and sikhs but was among the lucky ones
Yes we are Muhajirs should it be any of ur business or u guys still have grudge on the ones who escaped the Massacre ?????????

Its really good to hear Azam I sincerely hope that you never have to change your opinion and only encounter good people.
but when we hear from a Bolywood actress that she couldn’t get a plot in Mumbai bcz of being Muslim it tells a different story

18 M Junaid Khan 12.03.08 at 1:33 pm

Please read this new post from Pro Pakistan and give your comments. We are looking forward to some healthy discussion and not abusive language.

http://www.pro-pakistan.com/2008/12/03/pakistan-demands-handover-of-most-wanted-terrorists-from-india/

19 Vinay 12.03.08 at 6:43 pm

@Ahmed Zuhair
Are you even for real trying to base treatment of Muslims on Bollywood film roles? Grow up we have given the post of Indian President to two Muslims to date which is a far more prestigious position than being subjected to “casting counch” in Bollywood. It is people like you who cant think beyond cheap bollywood movies causing all the problems.

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