Provincial Bias Spread By Dawn Newspaper Story

by MJK on December 23, 2008

I was reading the daily Dawn and i came across a story which readily caught my eyes and reminded me how BBC, CNN and Fox use certain term to make them common to the masses. You must be regularly hearing the above channels referring to Muslims as Shia Muslim or Sunni Muslim etc. The purpose of such reporting is nothing more then to create rifts in the Muslims and to register this difference in the minds of all its listeners when in fact the situation is not that bad in reality. Personally,  Muslims are least concerned about Shia or Sunni except for the few bigoted ones who are not even concerned about Muslims as a whole. The same goes for Punjabi, Pathan and Baluchi etc but i wonder why our media is following the footsteps of Western media. Western media has a purpsoe behind their actions while ours is just doing it for the sake of copying them. We the team of Pro Pakistan strongly condemn using such words in reporting any story. The Talibans are Talibans and there is nothing like Punjabi and Pathan. We all stand united as One Nation and that is Pakistan.

Five ‘Punjabi Taliban’ killed in Drone Attacks - Dawn 23rd December, 2008

WANA, Dec 22: Two missile attacks by US drones on Monday killed five militants, said to be ‘Punjabi Taliban’ deployed in South Waziristan to intercept and shoot down intruding aircraft.
Sources said the unmanned drones fired two missiles on vehicles of the Punjabi Taliban in two villages.One of the vehicles was attacked in Ghwakhwa, some seven kilometres south of Wana, killing three militants.
The second vehicle was hit by a missile in Azam Warsak, 12 kilometers west of Wana, killing two Punjabi Taliban.
Local people said that six Taliban speaking Urdu had come to Azam Warsak bazaar in a vehicle. Four of them disembarked and went to a grocery shop. At that time a big explosion took place and the vehicle was destroyed.
The locals retrieved the two bodies from the vehicle and handed them over to their other colleagues.
Resident said a fort-like house was also destroyed in the attack.
The unmanned drones have carried out over 30 missile attacks in the tribal region over the past three months, killing over 200 people. Commander Nobahar of the Mullah Nazir group of Taliban told newsmen that the Taliban Shura had decided at a meeting to avenge the attack within three days.
He said the government was involved in the drone attacks which had killed hundreds of innocent people in Waziristan. Source: Dawn

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1 M Suhaib Khan 12.23.08 at 2:02 pm

…..never heard of “Punjabi Taliban”….!!as they don’t have such classes among them.Most of them, rather all of them are tribals, But as reported they were carrying high tech anti aircraft weapons so may be were “special” people for some action under the “cover”..!!!
Regards..!!

2 utp 12.23.08 at 5:42 pm

honestly I am very disappointed by both Indian and Pakistani media as to how they are handling the current situation…both for different reasons…

Indian media for claiming things that are not true and then it seems the government has to back their media….while Pakistani media is not bringing out the news and playing to mellow…

I know its a difficult situation…but every word that comes out from media should be moderated and re-moderated before it comes out…

the situation is so delicate…that its needed…

3 Owais Ehsan 12.24.08 at 9:06 pm

really pathetic , coming from Dawn.

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