{"id":33009,"date":"2012-11-27T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33009"},"modified":"2012-11-27T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:45:31","slug":"taiban-rationale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33009","title":{"rendered":"Taliban rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Taliban had planned to murder a Pakistani reporter because his reportage cast them in a bad light;<\/p>\n

The militant group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a failed assassination attempt against a prominent Pakistani TV anchor. Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said the group targeted Geo TV’s Hamid Mir because he was “promoting secular forces.”<\/p>\n

The bomb was found underneath Mir’s car in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, on Monday and was defused by police.<\/p>\n

The Taliban threatened Mir and other journalists last month because the group was unhappy with their coverage of a schoolgirl activist shot by the militants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess there was a better way to portray these well-meaning fellows when they shot a little girl in the face, surrounded by her terrified schoolmates on a busy street and the reporter just wasn’t nuanced enough to see it. And of course, their only recourse was to blow him up to teach him a lesson. I don’t think the Taliban has a handle on this whole public relations thing yet.<\/p>\n

It’s almost as if they’re living in another century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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