Bogus and propagated reporting of India media

In what appeared to be a show of gross misreporting and anti-Pakistan propaganda the Indian media claimed that three Pakistanis, the activist of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), entered Mumbai, planning to carry out an attack similar to 26/11 Mumbai carnage.

The bogus drama of Indian media claiming that three or five members LeT wanted to explode installations came to an end when the three among the five suspected terrorists approached a police station in Lahore, seeking their safety.

According to the Indian media, the Mumbai Police released photos of five men belonging to the terror group LeT, alerting the law enforcement agencies to avoid any untoward incident.

The media quoting intelligence sources said that the militants wanted to attack vital city installations.

The alert turned out to be false when the three persons projected as militants in the Indian media showed up at Lahore’s Gulberg Police station to verify their locations after watching the reports on the Indian media.

All three people are residents of Lahore who work in Hafeez Centre situated and identified as Atif Butt and Mehtab Butt who are traders in the shopping centre while the third person was named as Babar Shakeel who works as a security guard in the same shopping centre.

The three Pakistani citizens while speaking to the media said that the Indian media by publishing the pictures of innocent men had been badly exposed by the obvious example of this false anti-Pakistan propaganda.

Gulberg ASP Tariq Aziz said that the initial report of the reported persons’ presence had been submitted in the police station and the matter would be forwarded to the cyber-crime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for further investigation and to ascertain how the Indian media got hold of the Pakistani national’s photographs.

Muhammad Fayyaz Butt, the President of shop keepers committee at Hafeez Centre, informed that Atif Butt had been running a mobile-phone shop under the banner of Sun Mobiles. Mehtab Butt had been operating a similar business while Baber Shabbir was a security guard at the Centre.

Shabbir while speaking to the media said he had been employed as a security guard at the shopping plaza for the past five years. He added that he was too poor to have a passport made, let alone travel to another country.

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Posted by Faisal Farooq on May 10 2012. Filed under Latest News, National, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.