United States-primarily based totally information company Associated Press (AP) has courted controversy with its insurance of the phobia assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday (22 April), wherein over dozen people, primarily vacationers, had been killed.
Netizens have accused the company of omitting key statistics and softening terminology across the terror assault.
Journalist Sreemoy Talukdar took to X to spotlight that AP in its reportage at the Pahalgam terror assault failed to say that the vacationers killed withinside the assault had been Hindus—an omission he known as glaring, given the character of the targeting.
“In a sequence of articles, AP fails to say even ONCE that the vacationers who had been selectively gunned down via way of means of jihadis had been Hindus, even quoting the organization that has assumed obligation (failing to say LeT link) to mention they had been “no everyday vacationers”,” he said.
AP`s preference to border the incident as a “terror assault” in scare costs, attributing the word to police, turned into additionally slammed via way of means of Talukdar.
“What’s more, AP is going on to position the word “terror assault” below scare costs and attributes it to the police, elevating doubts over the act of terrorism,” he said.
He additionally highlighted that the hole quoted the organization claiming obligation however made no point out of its hyperlinks to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-primarily based totally terror organisation.
Tagging the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Talukdar asked, “What steps are you going to take in opposition to AP? As a concerned, taxpaying citizen of India, pained past degree via way of means of the bloodbath in Pahalgam, I call for an answer”.
“Will you allow this abominable chicanery via way of means of AP pass?” he added.