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EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar Dec 5: Barely two days after Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju stood for the scribes, the former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah today lashed out on the media in Kashmir valley for their reportage and termed it as a "premeditated act".
He was speaking at a function at SKICC. However, he suddenly began to criticize media and asked it “to restrain itself.”
He said: “It’s enough now... You have spoken enough... You have written enough and you have sung enough.”
Taking a dig on the valley journalists, Farooq said: “Your reportage is all a premeditated act... you all receive phone calls about where the situation is going to get worst and then you reach there and then you present it in such colours that tourists run away.”
He questioned: “What about the Shikarawala, what will he eat? What about the horseman in Gulmarg and Pahalgam, what will he eat?”
“I hope you people (Media) will get realization soon,” he said.
These comments came in the wake of Government forces assaulting photojournalist while they were covering protests in the Old City on November 25. Day after the incident the Press Council of India Chairperson, Markandey Katju wrote in a letter to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah saying that it will launch criminal proceedings against police and paramilitary forces if they assaulted journalists discharging their duties during coverage of demonstrations and other incidents.
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