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Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: September 17, 2002
URL: http://www.rediff.com/election/2002/sep/17jk4.htm
The false propaganda of Pakistan
TV stood exposed yet again when the channel claimed that voters were dragged
out of their houses in Lolab assembly constituency in Kupwara district
without realising that elections were countermanded there after the assassination
of Jammu and Kashmir minister Mushtaq Ahmed Lone.
"People were dragged out by [the]
Indian Army in Lolab constituency and forced to vote," said the newsreader
on Monday's prime time bulletin.
Elections to Lolab will be held
on October 8.
The channel went on to say that
several officials were killed when terrorists ambushed polling stations
in Kupwara, Baramulla and Rajouri districts.
Nearly 20 minutes of the 30-minute
telecast were devoted to suggesting that the elections were farce in the
first phase.
PTI
