Re: BBC Exposes the Indian’ Faridkot (Multan) Lie
Here’s an article from Dawn, little more detailed.
the video has “EXPIRED”. :chai: What it was about?
It helps to think before posting. According to the investigative journalist no one from the village ever went to jehad. How can he be so confident. Did he do a detailed analysis to find out. Would the villagers be so forthcoming if one of their kin was involved in this dastardly act.
In the second village everyone knows each other and that no 1 is comfortable speaking urdu. This is news. Cant a language be learned. People learn making bombs but they find it extremely difficult to learn a new language. Some investigative journalism this !!!
In case you are not able to read, the article also says that the family name suggested doesn't exist in any of the villages.
In case you are not able to read, the article also says that the family name suggested doesn't exist in any of the villages.
Captain this is good move on part of the media in Pakistan .... they have taken upon themselves to go and investigate soem information .... however i am a bit surprised that so far BBC has not put this information in the english section ..... am equally glad that finally the Pak media had been able to locate faridkot in Pakistan .... otherwise most of them were blissfully unaware of any such place in Pakistan .... let us see how the thing unfolds from here on ....
In case you are not able to read, the article also says that the family name suggested doesn't exist in any of the villages.
In case you did not notice I had mentioned some other points also in my post.
The investigative journalist found that out that the family does not exist in any of the villages !!!
Hard to believe though
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The investigative journalist found that out that the family does not exist in any of the villages !!!
Hard to believe though
Why not?
Re: BBC Exposes the Indian' Faridkot (Multan) Lie
In a matter of hours the investigative journalist was able to get the information. Also why is not being published in the English version of BBC if the news was so authentic
In a matter of hours the investigative journalist was able to get the information. Also why is not being published in the English version of BBC if the news was so authentic
Just like in a matter of minutes, Pakistan was blamed.
Pakistan has gone a bit further than you might imagine. Electronic ID and biometrics is very impressive. One finds very difficult to copy ID's or hide an identity unless off course its another country with all the resources. You know what I mean don't you? (wink)
Other point of Urdu or English is not valid.
Re: BBC Exposes the Indian’ Faridkot (Multan) Lie
This is indian version of the story. It would be the good to verify against it.
Please don’t forget to compare the dates of the mayhem started and when the article was published 
In case you did not notice I had mentioned some other points also in my post.
The investigative journalist found that out that the family does not exist in any of the villages !!!
Hard to believe though
so what about "boat theory", it is believable for u.
Re: BBC Exposes the Indian' Faridkot (Multan) Lie
Ya it is not believeable. To some "Ignorance is bliss"
When they ran out of fuel they caught dolphins to take them to Mumbai 
Now this is better. seems like Javed Akhtar & Raam Gopal Verma had enough with lousy script.
I am waiting when Indians decide to give his finger prints to Pakistani authorities. :chai:
For your kind information, dolphins are not available in the arabian sea to be caught. They might have jumped to the sea and a huge fish would have swallowed them and then puked them onto the beach.
Re: BBC Exposes the Indian’ Faridkot (Multan) Lie
**The one known surviving militant behind last week’s terrible attacks in Mumbai is reported to have come from the Pakistani village of Faridkot. The BBC’s Syed Shoaib Hasan travelled there to speak to some of the villagers.
Well the below was posted in the guardian today Mumbai terror: Sleepy village baffled by link to captured terrorist | World news | The Guardian
It seem the indian terrorist story is becoming more unlikely and Pakistan is taking this event seriously and investigating
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Sleepy Village Baffled by Link to Captured terrorist**
A sleepy village in Pakistan has found itself at the centre of the Mumbai terror plot, leaving locals bewildered.
Faridkot, a settlement in the south of the Punjab province, has been overrun by Pakistani intelligence agents and police for the past three days after it was reported by Indian officials that the lone gunman captured alive in Mumbai came from a place called Faridkot.
Agents from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) were still questioning locals yesterday.
“All the agencies have been here and the (police) special branch,” said village elder Mehboob Khan Daha. “We have become very worried. What’s this all about?”
A dusty backwater, the inhabitants are peasant farmers who own small parcels of land and are poorly educated. Water buffalo and goats roam the dirt tracks of the village.
Men sit around gossiping on traditional woven rope beds, placed out in the open, wearing the usual baggy shalwar kameez pyjama suits, some with turbans. Roughly built small brick homes and little mud huts are dotted around the village, which has a population of about 3,000. It is 34 miles east from the nearest large city, Multan.
“There are no jihadis here,” said Ijaz Ahmed, 41. “I can think of maybe 10 or 20 people here who have even been as far as Multan.”
The Faridkot link is a key plank of India’s accusations against Pakistan. The captured gunman, variously named as Ajmal Amir Kamal, Azam Amir Kasav or Azam Ameer Qasab, is said to come from Faridkot, which is described as being near Multan. He is said to speak fluent English and a clear photograph of him shows a young man in western clothes. Shown a picture of the alleged militant, Daha said: “That’s a smart-looking boy. We don’t have that sort around here.”
In Faridkot, no one appeared to be able to speak much English; most could only converse in a dialect of the provincial language. None of the villagers recognised the face in the photograph.
They said the intelligence agents wanted to know if there was any presence of the radical Deobandi or Al-Hadith religious movements in the village, to which they were told “no”. The agents mentioned five names, villagers said, including Ajmal, Amir, Kamal and Azam, all common names in Pakistan. There were five Ajmals in the village, all present except one who is living in provincial capital Lahore, and none fitted the description of the militant. The Azam in the village is a 75-year-old retired railway worker.
One of the Ajmals, a man who thought he was about 30, has worked in a nearby tea factory for the past 12 years, he said. The police and intelligence agencies have been asking his whereabouts.
“All I ever do is go to work, which is about 3km away. I have never been beyond Kanewal (the closest town),” said Muhammad Ajmal. “I’m uneducated.”
Faridkot lies in a part of Punjab known for extremist activity but the village itself did not show any signs of being a hotbed of militancy. Written on a board at the entrance to the village mosque, it is declared that members of the hardline Tablighi Jamaat "are not permitted
Hunting Mumbai militant’s roots in Faridkot
we need more journalism like this…this should be broadcasted all over the news now :–) i did not know that the ppl from this village were questioned by the security personnel…why is this not shown on tv… or did i miss it..
The one known surviving militant behind last week’s terrible attacks in Mumbai is reported to have come from the Pakistani village of Faridkot. The BBC’s Syed Shoaib Hasan travelled there to speak to some of the villagers.
*“We’re tired of being hounded by people from the media,” says Bilal, a Faridkot villager. “They have been coming here every day since the news broke.”
Qamar-uz-Zaman, another villager, says the men have been recently questioned by Pakistani security agencies.
“Obviously, it was a serious accusation and the officials came here to check things out,” he said. “They checked the ID cards of both the men and their activities.”
Evidently, the security personnel were satisfied by the answers they received as no arrests or detentions have taken place so far.
But the villagers are quite perturbed by this recent turn of events, and vehemently denounce what they call “Indian propaganda”.
“No man from our village has ever been involved in any such activity,” one says. “It is not fair that so many people have been disturbed by these false accusations.”
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Re: BBC Exposes the Indian' Faridkot (Multan) Lie
India can handover the caught Pakistani for a potential trial in Pakistan... :)
All the 10 terrorists, suspected to have been involved in the Mumbai attacks, were trained by ex-army personnel even as the lone arrested terrorist has admitted to being a Pakistani, the police on Tuesday said.
Ajmal Amin Kamal, the only terrorist of the group of ten caught alive, has admitted he is a Pakistani and hailed from the Punjab province of Pakistan, Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor said.
"The group of ten had come from Karachi by ship, flew an SOS flag in international waters and then hijacked a trawler which they used to come near Mumbai's shores," Gafoor said.
The group of ten had been trained by former army personnel, some for over a year, Gafoor said, refusing to comment on the nationality of the army personnel.
When asked if there was any evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the attacks, Gafoor said, "At the moment investigations are on and if we have proof we shall present it."
He said there was no evidence of local persons involved in the attacks.
After landing in Mumbai, the terrorists broke into five pairs and went to their assigned places in taxis.
The police have also said the two blasts which took place in taxis on November 26 night were due to bombs placed by the terrorists.
"Every group had a bomb with them and two of them had kept them in taxis, one which exploded in Vile Parle and the other which exploded in Dockyard Road," Gafoor said.