LONDON:
This is with reference to Awab Alvi’s flogging piece. First, the tape wasn’t fake. Even the Swat Taliban spokesperson, Muslim Khan, in an interview with a leading TV channel, admitted that the Taliban were responsible. The report that Mr Alvi mentioned was published, albeit in a national newspaper, but without a byline and was based on anonymous sources. Secondly, I have to say that column seems to be based on hearsay and I say this because no concrete evidence has been presented that the video was fake but this rightwing myth is still being propagated.