Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Who wants Sarabjit Singh hanged?

Sarabjit Singh's impending hanging in Pakistan is touching an emotional peak here in India and the media coverage borders on plain jingoism. We see anchors pleading to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, we have seen Singh's family posing in front of a noose that they threaten to hang themselves with. There are reporters with OB vans broadcasting live from the native village of the man who has been rotting in Pakistani jails for over 15 years.

While no channel or newspapers has any idea about the merits of the case or the trial, every one presumes that Sarabjit Singh is innocent. And there is a sympathy wave sweeping the country.

I am not in a position to comment on the punishment, the truth is the truth hasn't come out and may never come out. In spite of hundreds of reporters being stationed in that small village in Pakistan, we still have no idea what this man did for living or how exactly he ended up in Pakistan in the first place.

What if he WAS a spy, what if he WAS involved in the low-intensity conflict that the two countries have been on for about their infancy? After all, Pakistanis are regularly caught here for sabotage and mayhem and murder and what not. We always blame the ISI for the explosions in out backyard. The Pakistanis reciprocate. They blame it all on RAW. And they accused Singh of being a RAW man.

9 comments:

Roshomon said...

NDTV had a super which said,"SAVE SARABJIT". Balanced journalism???

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