India Today fantasises

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/09/2016

Media fantasies about punishing Pakistan get more juvenile by the day. India Today's latest cover story is called 'How to punish Pakistan' with a cover picture of the Pakistan flag being wrung. It contains graphic depictions of options the country has: a covert operation to eliminate JeM chief Maulana Masoor Azhar in four stages, another series of drawings of an imaginary surgical strike against the LeT leadership, and a third drawing of a fire assault. Now the military should consider strategic advice published in a magazine? As Shekhar Gupta tweeted yesterday, a nuke state deserves better media.

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