Indian English TV news channels' fondness for Pakistani participants in their discussion programmes on Indo-Pak issues, seems sickening. Not that the idea to invite them is basically flawed; the problem is that most of these Pakistani commentators are either retired military officers or diplomats-working or retired. Thus, their views reflect the official Pakistani propagandist line. Hence, it is a wild goose chase for Indian anchors to pin Pakistanis down on an issue such as their government's aid and abetment to Pakistani terrorists to target India, its security forces and even ordinary citizens.
For example, in his recent disclosures, Abu Jundal, an Indian terrorist, recruited and trained in Pakistan to carry out bombing and other violent acts in our coountry with the guidance and brainwashing by Pakistani state agencies and anti-Indian elements, who was deported from Saudi Arabia and arrested, highlighted the Pakistani gameplan to create havoc in India. When the Indian news anchors confronted this vast body of evidence, confirming Pakistani involvement in gruesome acts of jehadi terror, Pakistani participants instantly repudiated these grave facts as baseless and Indian propaganda.
There is this familiar display of Pakistani mindset-very predictable, which is permanently in denial. Their new litany is that Pakistan is itself a greater victim of terrorism that has killed tens of thousands of their people. In one recent discussion programme on Abu Jundal's revelations, when an Indian co-panelist reminded the Pakistani panelists that these Pakistani fatalities were the fruits of their own misdoings-the fostering of the Taliban-type terrorists by their own secret state agencies like the ISI, they had no satisfactory reply. Hence, one feels that it is futile and thoughtless to invite Pakistani commentators with closed minds to Indian TV debates because they will never come out with an objective, honest, fearless analysis of their govt's acts of commission and omission.
For example, in his recent disclosures, Abu Jundal, an Indian terrorist, recruited and trained in Pakistan to carry out bombing and other violent acts in our coountry with the guidance and brainwashing by Pakistani state agencies and anti-Indian elements, who was deported from Saudi Arabia and arrested, highlighted the Pakistani gameplan to create havoc in India. When the Indian news anchors confronted this vast body of evidence, confirming Pakistani involvement in gruesome acts of jehadi terror, Pakistani participants instantly repudiated these grave facts as baseless and Indian propaganda.
There is this familiar display of Pakistani mindset-very predictable, which is permanently in denial. Their new litany is that Pakistan is itself a greater victim of terrorism that has killed tens of thousands of their people. In one recent discussion programme on Abu Jundal's revelations, when an Indian co-panelist reminded the Pakistani panelists that these Pakistani fatalities were the fruits of their own misdoings-the fostering of the Taliban-type terrorists by their own secret state agencies like the ISI, they had no satisfactory reply. Hence, one feels that it is futile and thoughtless to invite Pakistani commentators with closed minds to Indian TV debates because they will never come out with an objective, honest, fearless analysis of their govt's acts of commission and omission.
