NEW DELHI: Pakistani American terrorist David Headley has said that Ishrat Jahan, the Mumbai girl who was killed along with three alleged terrorists in 2004 in a police encounter, was indeed a Lashkar-e-Taiba fidayeen.
Sources said Headley told interrogators from the National Investigation Agency that Ishrat, a resident of Mumbra in Thane, was recruited by top Lashkar commander Muzammil who was in charge of LeT's operations in India till 2007. [link] This one stayed as the third lead story on the TOI site for a few hours, below the wedding story of a cricketer. Now a different story is back as the lead story: Ishrat Jahan's mother seeks Chidambaram's help - and the revelations by Headley is a footnote to it. The latter story has already stayed on the top spot longer than the main story did, on the third spot.
All of us knows just how much attention the Ishrat Jahan "fake" encounter story received in the media. For months, even years, the seculars would not stop talking about it. Given this backdrop, Headley's revelations should have been treated as the most explosive story to break within at least this past week. Yet, the editorial desk decided to run with the most vague and redundant aspect of it all.
Ishrat Jahan's Mom seeking HM's help is hardly news, the family has been all over media, treated as top priority by various national and international human rights groups. They are really the elite "victims", the picture perfect election campaign poster of the Secular Party. In fact, we would not be surprised if they have a hotline to the Home Ministry or something.
Was Ishrat Jahan's demise a result of a "fake" encounter? We are not so sure. The jury is still out on that. Based on TOI's headline football, we are not going to take media's word for it for sure, let alone the word of the so called "Human Rights Activists".
Do we feel sad for Ishrat Jahan? The answer is yes. In this case though, the Secular media and intellectual narrative and high def Bollywoodized victimhood stories are as much responsible as the virulent religious ideology that drives that sort of thing. From what we read, she was likely a smart girl albeit from a family of modest means. She fell victim to the "liberal" spins, those passive aggressive and garbage blogs and webzines. She trusted the only ones she could, and she did not know any better.
Perhaps if she had read this blog, she would have trusted those award seeking vultures a little less. She might have chosen a different path.
So yes, we feel sorry for her, she didn't have to die so some rat continues his sorry fucking race for a Pulitzer prize based on prevarications and wholesale canards.
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