Enter Arnab, trailing security

IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/10/2016

The Intelligence Bureau has detected a threat to the life of Times Now's Arnab Goswami from Pakistan-based terrorist groups, reports Hindustan Times. The high profile, hyper-nationalist TV anchor will now get Y category security which means a detail of two personal security officers and 20 guards. Goswami has been crowing about India having given Pakistan a “bloody nose” in the wake of the surgical strike across the Line of Control. His nightly bullying of retired Pakistani generals (who are probably paid to get bullied on Times Now) makes for fine chest-thumping theatre. But with the tax payer paying for his security, the nation will want to know exactly which Pakistani terror groups are baying for his blood.

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