The New York Times newspaper that once ran an op-ed written by the Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani has reportedly sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help with the evacuation of its journalists from Kabul in Afghanistan.
This request comes at a time when the Islamic terror outfit has rapidly seized territories in Afghanistan after the US announced the withdrawal of its troops after twenty years that has all the potential for a full-scale civil war.
It must be noted that the Taliban had earlier brutally murdered and mutilated the body of Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who was working with Reuters, after ascertaining his identity and nationality.
Now the New York Times that had justified the publication of an op-ed authored by Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, has now sought India’s help in securing the evacuation of its journalists from Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, which according to the US intelligence will soon fall into the hands of the Taliban terrorists.
However, it is very ironic that the liberals in the US had critised the NYT when it published an op-ed written by Senator Tom Cotton who is also a veteran of its armed forces but chose stone-cold silence over the Haqqani op-ed.
Indian journalist Aditya Raj Kaul in a tweet said, “The New York Times that publishes a Sirajuddin Haqqani Op-ed, the same New York Times that consistently badmouths Modi’s India, now turns to Modi’s India with a request to facilitate the evacuation of its journalists from Kabul. All the irony that’s fit to print,”.
The New York Times that publishes a Sirajuddin Haqqani Op-ed, the same New York Times that consistently badmouths Modi’s India, now turns to Modi’s India with a request to facilitate evacuation of its journalists from Kabul. All the irony that’s fit to print.
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) August 12, 2021
In February 2020 the New York Times published an opinion article titled “What We, The Taliban, Want”, in which Haqqani had said that after the withdrawal of US troops, the Islamic terror outfit wants to “build an Islamic system” in Afghanistan.
Sirajuddin Haqqani is also the leader of the Haqqani network that is responsible for the death of many US and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years.
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