Keeping Indian journos out

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/09/2016

On Monday NDTV journalist Namrata Brar was asked to leave a press briefing by Pakistan foreign secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in New York reports NDTV. When she requested to be let in, Brar said that she heard someone saying “Iss Indian ko nikalo (throw out this Indian).” In fact, not a single Indian journalist was allowed to attend the briefing, which took place a day after the Uri attack and on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is in New York to attend the UNGA, too refused to speak to members of the Indian media.