Author: Feroz Afridi
Publication: pakhtu@yahoogroups.com
Date: December 11, 2003
Kuldip Nayyar is a prominent journalist
of India. He has been Indian High Commissioner in the UK, and so is associated
with Indian government. He is welcome to visit Pakistan and also write
for our papers, and project the views of his government. We on our part
should keep in mind, that we should not interact so much with the learned
former diplomat as to provide him with opportunity to paint an ominous
and bad picture of Pakistan or its stand or distort the views of our people
on various issues.
We must keep in mind that the Indians
paint a very pretty and magnificent picture of India to create inferiority
complex in us. They misrepresent our views and twist the same to suit their
policies.
Nayyar misused friendship of Mushahid
Hussain when he was editor of The Muslim, and used him to meet Dr Abdul
Qadir at his house. He later misrepresented his views about our atomic
programme as a result of which Americans reclamped sanctions against Pakistan.
Similarly, he misused his meeting with Bhutto at Shimla and later misrepresented
him to say that he was in favour of partition of Kashmir as per LoC. We
must be cautious and guard against our national interests when we are close
to such people.
Is there any Pakistani journalist
having unlimited access to Indian media, policymakers, and other dignitaries,
writing for Pakistan against Indian views in Indian's top national papers
as Kuldip Nayyar has in Pakistan?
Kh Muhammad Bashir Butt,
Bahawalnagar
