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| Who are Shabir and Reyaz? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 29: Whenever a controversy breaks out bringing National Conference Congress government at loggerheads with public, Hurriyat or the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, a mysterious ‘Public Relations’ mechanism suddenly comes into fore with quite juicy information hard for any editor to blackout but the person at the other end is always “invisible” and “unidentifiable”.
When television screens on Wednesday beamed the scenes from Legislative Assembly showing Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone forwarding a questionnaire to former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig, which the latter tore apart, the journalist fraternity started keenly looking forward to an email from Reyaz Ahmed or Shabir Ahmed. Looking at the kind of information they provided to media outlets over past few moths, it was widely expected that either of the two has list of questions which made Baig blush and pushed the House in bedlam.
This may not be in knowledge of the readers but the media in Jammu and Kashmir has a unique mechanism of receiving loads of information from different sources every day. The most preferred way of reaching out to a large number of journalists across state and outside is to use the email contact list used by Directorate of Information for disseminating official press releases to the media outlets.
The Directorate of Information does most of the political work for the government and the ruling parties in literally building bridges where there are no waters. But when issued touch the extremes and becomes unsafe to go fully political, then comes the role of Reyaz Ahmed and Shabir Ahmed. It is not known to anyone who they are but a look at few of their press releases received by the media in recent past can suggest who they work for. Their art of story telling and the PR is excellent, indeed!
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• July 17: Photograph of National Conference Central Working Committee meeting at Srinagar
• July 18: Statement of National Conference leader Dr Farooq Abdullah’s brother Dr Mustafa Kamal captioned: Kamal demands removal of green veil from scandalous anti-Kashmiri party
• July 29: Questionnaire for Muzaffar Hussain Baig, presented by NC MLA Nazir Gurezi and offered to the former DyCM by the Speaker.
• July 29: Press release captioned “Mufti preferred to remain silent than resign when sex scandal came to his notice during his rule”. “Jagmohan was brought as Governor to impose AFSPA in J&K by Mufti”
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• June 20: Grenade incident in hub of tourist area attempt to paralyze economy of tourist industry, say tourist traders
• July 10: Multi-crore Waqf scandal likely to unveil faces of bigwigs…Clandestine backdoor appointments’ scandal: 4-5 persons appointed from one family
• July 15: Mysterious love story costs poor Kashmiri tradesmen Rs. 100 cr
• July 23: 60,000 crore loss suffered by Kashmir during last 4000 hartals in two decades had cost each individual Kashmir Rs 20 lakh loss…Mysteriously only few hundred families prospered and attained old zamindari status
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