LONDON: BBC News Presenter Philippa Thomas has been accused of “propagandis work” Pakistan after he repeatedly closed the US professor who specialized in South Asia, who claimed that the Taliban was “Pakistani Project”, by saying: “They firmly denied they had created the Taliban “.
Interview with Dr.
Christine Fair, a professor of security studies at Georgetown University in Washington, which was broadcast on Saturday in the BBC England domestic channel, created a storm on Twitter.
Fair gave interviews about Pakistani intelligence head LieTn Gen Faiz Hameed visited Kabul at the Taliban invitation.
Former Pakistani Ambassador for the US Husain Haqqani shared a link to the declassified US documents – which illustrates that the Taliban is directly funded, it is narrated by Islamabad – and tweeted: “The boss can be done with the assistant to undergraduate researchers, who will find this with a simple Google search .
“” What an embarrassing action by @philippabbc & @bbcworld to invite a famous academic like @cchristinefair & then the closed he was so cruel just because he did not read their propaganda script, “Tweeted Historian Vikram Sampath.
Fair said: “For those of us who have watched these affairs in Afghanistan evolved, this has become a Pakistani project.
Without Pakistan, the Taliban will become a disruption – it will not be a competent and capable terrorist organization.” Thomas replied: “Pakistan denied That it has created a Taliban or it supports militarily behind the scenes in any way.
” Fair said: “What Pakistan handled for the past 20 years is the emergence of a stable Afghanistan who opposes Pakistan and is friendly with India.
What Pakistan wants more than anything is the instability that can be managed.
Pakistan likes to be considered a fire department when Pakistan, in fact, burner.
Pakistan will monetize this.
“” Pakistan will truly deny it, “Thomas said, interrupted, and then cut off the call,” We do not have Pakistani officials to talk to us now “, but not before the alleged fair:” You did Their propagandist work.
“A BBC spokesman said:” This is a standard practice for our presenters to challenge guests.
The person interviewed was given a lot of opportunity to make the meaning during a long interview.
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