NEW DELHI – The headline of an article in The New York Times that read “InIndia’s Election Season, an Explosion Interrupts Modi’s Slump” hasinfuriated Indian Twitter users.
Ananth Krishnan, a senior Indian journalist and a visiting fellowat Brookings India called the article “bizarre”, while others termed ithate-filled.
Husain Haqqani, director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Instituteand former Pakistan ambassador to the US, termed the article “troubling”,as the NYT chooses to describe a terrorist suicide attack as “anexplosion”. “What’s next? Describing a beheading as loss of a human head?”Haqqani furiously asked the NYT.
Earlier, this month, seeking to establish that the Indian Armed Forces arein alarming shape, a New York Times article mentioned that an aerial clash,the first by the South Asian rivals in nearly five decades, “was a raretest for the Indian military” and that it left observers a bit dumbfounded.
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In a clash that marked India’s retaliation against a 14 February suicideattack on a paramilitary convoy that killed at least 40 soldiers, theIndian Air Force allegedly shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16 using aMiG-21 Bison on 27 February.
Pakistan has denied that any of its F-16s were shot down. The Indian AirForce later displayed parts of an AMRAAM medium-range missile that wasrecovered in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, claiming that theyhad been launched by a US-made jet. – Sputnik
