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BBC edits out all mentions of terrorist Kulbhushan Jadhav from Asad Umar’s Hard Talk interview

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LAHORE – A British public service broadcaster is facing severe criticism for omitting the statement of Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar about Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian terrorist, from his recorded interview, triggering the conspiracy.

In an interview with BBC’s Stephen Sackur for the well-known show Hardtalk, the finance minister responded to several questions regarding various national issues.

However, the talk of Umar about Jadhav, who was awarded death sentence by a military court in 2017 over espionage charges, was edited out from the TV version of the interview.

Later, the whole interview carrying the Jadhav issue discussion was aired on BBC’s radio, showing the difference between it and the TV version of the interview.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the ruling party, also raised the issue of the censorship of the interview by the BBC in a soft way on Twitter. It also shared the interview with mention of Jadhav in Umar’s discussion.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCHARDtalk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BBCHARDtalk</a> interview, <a href="https://twitter.com/Asad_Umar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Asad_Umar</a> mentioned Kulbushan Yadav and his admission of terrorist activities in Balochistan which was edited out in the televised show.<br>Check what was shown by BBC (first 9 seconds) and edited part of what Asad Umar said in between. <a href="https://t.co/tvUQm3p8LH">pic.twitter.com/tvUQm3p8LH</a></p>— PTI (@PTIofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/1073236208690507777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Earlier today, Minister of Human Rights Shireen Mazari lambasted the BBC for allegedly censoring the interview and removing the part about Jadhav. She called it “typical bias” on the part of the broadcaster.

“Shameful how BBC censored and chopped off Asad’s mention of Indian spymaster Jhadav! Typical bias of BBC!” she wrote on Twitter.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shameful how BBC censored and chopped off Asad's mention of Indian spymaster Jhadav! Typical bias of BBC! <a href="https://t.co/sw1ReRmeJj">https://t.co/sw1ReRmeJj</a></p>— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShireenMazari1/status/1073121469566238720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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After massive criticism from Pakistan Twiteratti, the British broadcaster issued a clarification on Twitter, stating: “The reason Kulbhushan Jadhav’s name was deleted from the TV version of the HARDtalk interview with Asad Umar has a simple technical explanation”.

It was not an act of censorship and that the part was deleted becasue the interview was too long to be aired on TV, the programme handler tweeted.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The reason Kulbhushan Jadhav’s name was deleted from the TV version of the HARDtalk interview with Asad Umar has a simple technical explanation.<br>The recorded interview was too long for our broadcast slot and so had to be edited. This was done separately for radio and TV. 1/2</p>— BBC HARDtalk (@BBCHARDtalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCHARDtalk/status/1073254911834447872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In another Tweet, it said” “His [Jadhav] name was omitted from the TV version. This was not an act of censorship, but clearly confusion has been caused”.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">His name was omitted from the TV version. This was not an act of censorship, but clearly confusion has been caused, so we are happy to restore that short section to the TV broadcast and we’ll give the new programme an extra airing tonight as well as tomorrow morning. 2/2 <a href="https://t.co/STjcCKsWGt">https://t.co/STjcCKsWGt</a></p>— BBC HARDtalk (@BBCHARDtalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCHARDtalk/status/1073255219239272450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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“…so we are happy to restore that short section to the TV broadcast and we’ll give the new programme an extra airing tonight as well as tomorrow morning,” read the tweet.

The social media users have also slammed the BBC when it came forward with a clarification.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pak...n-jadhav-from-asad-umars-hard-talk-interview/
 
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Good of BBC to recognize their mistake but was it a deliberate attempt or can we believe their explanation?
 
Love this govt, they have the guts to call BBC on their bee ess. I love how they aren't afraid to speak their mind.
 
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Good of BBC to recognize their mistake but was it a deliberate attempt or can we believe their explanation?

IMO, Of course it's not a mistake. IMO, as they say in Punjabi: Ku**i chora naal milli hoi hain.
 
Good of BBC to recognize their mistake but was it a deliberate attempt or can we believe their explanation?

this was deliberate :)) They aren't "recognizing" their "mistakes". It seems very convenient of them to edit that part out and only "noticed" it when they were called out.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">14 seconds too long. Chose to retain two similar questions instead of this. Chose to retain a general point re: India but not a specific one. Technical. <a href="https://t.co/Na9je65XIJ">https://t.co/Na9je65XIJ</a></p>— Zarrar Khuhro (@ZarrarKhuhro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZarrarKhuhro/status/1073259432618934272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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No country in the world, if they can, would allow non-friendly government on their borders.

India is actively implicit in destabilizing Pakistan.
 
What a dubious explanation....

BBC like trump finding out that it's not like it was before.
 
It could be a mistake as the BBC has reinstated the edited part. Kulbushan was a Indian/RAW terrorist no doubt about it whatsoever. The evidence is how peace has been restored in Baluchistan after his capture.
 
Truth be told there are too many right wing BJP supporters who work for the BBC.
 
BBC makes such mistakes regularly. I recall about a year back when actor Shashi Kapoor died they showed Amitabh Bachchan's picture and movie scenes instead. That greatly upset the Indian people at the time as well. BBC is incredibly careless.
 
Real shame! I cant find any reason to like the BBC. They charge us in the UK a hefty tv license fee and delivery is just not good enough.
 
BBC makes such mistakes regularly. I recall about a year back when actor Shashi Kapoor died they showed Amitabh Bachchan's picture and movie scenes instead. That greatly upset the Indian people at the time as well. BBC is incredibly careless.

Oh please. This wasn't carelessness.

BBC is incredibly biased.... look at how any panel is devised on political shows by BBC, you will have 5 remainers with one brexiteer, when brexit is actually the majority voice of the people. You will get deluge of a particular narrative.
 
Irony is that the BBC (and especially this Sackur guy) complains about press censorship in Pakistan, but then it edits out the part about an Indian terrorist.
 
BBC says omission of Kulbhushan remark from Asad Umar interview 'not an act of censorship'

After criticism from Pakistani Twitterati, the BBC on Thursday stated that the omission of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav's mention from its interview with Finance Minister Asad Umar was "not an act of censorship" and that it was edited out because the programme was too long to be broadcast on TV.

In an interview to BBC’s Stephen Sackur for the well-known show Hardtalk, the minister answered questions regarding various issues of national importance. The TV version of the interview, however, did not contain his mention of Jadhav, who was sentenced to death in 2017 by a Pakistani military tribunal for his involvement in espionage.

"The reason Kulbhushan Jadhav’s name was deleted from the TV version of the HARDtalk interview with Asad Umar has a simple technical explanation," said a tweet from the programme's Twitter handle. "The recorded interview was too long for our broadcast slot and so had to be edited."

The channel said Jadhav's name had been omitted from the TV version of the interview and not the radio version, and that it was not done to censor the minister's words.

Because "clearly confusion has been caused", the broadcaster said it would restore the omitted "short section" to the programme and air the new TV version again tonight as well as tomorrow morning.

Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari responded to BBC's explanation, describing it as "pathetic" and saying that the organisation's "bias has always been there".

In the radio version, while answering a question regarding alleged threats to Chinese investment in Balochistan and the "anger" generated by it among some people in the province, Umar states: "This is not anger of the people of Balochistan, these are activities of sponsored terrorists who receive training, funding [and] material from outside Pakistan. And is there a serious attempt to try and destabilise Balochistan and through that, try and subvert CPEC [China-Pakistan Economic Corridor]? Of course, there is. There is a concerted effort to do that."

When pressed by the host on who these external forces were, the minister responds: "Led by India, of course. Pakistan arrested a senior operative from India, his name is Kulbhushan Jadhav; he is in the custody of Pakistan and he gave details of how the Indian intervention in Balochistan and others parts of Pakistan is taking place. So is there terrorist intervention in Balochistan? Absolutely yes, [but] what the people of Balochistan thought has been expressed through the free will of those people by electing a government of Balochistan which stands by CPEC, which wants greater engagement of CPEC in their province."

The part "Pakistan arrested a senior operative from India, his name is Kulbhushan Jadhav; he is in the custody of Pakistan and he gave details of how the Indian intervention in Balochistan and others parts of Pakistan is taking place" was omitted from the TV version of the interview by the BBC.

'Typical bias'
Earlier on Thursday, human rights minister Shireen Mazari had sharply criticised the BBC for allegedly censoring the interview and deleting the part about Jadhav, terming it "typical bias" on the part of the broadcaster.

"Shameful how BBC censored and chopped off Asad's mention of Indian spymaster Jhadav! Typical bias of BBC!" she wrote on Twitter.

Her tweet led to journalists and social media users questioning show host Stephen Sackur on Twitter whether the interview had indeed been censored.

Columnist Mosharraf Zaidi wondered if the Indian government had influenced the BBC's decision to delete Jadhav's mention.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1451233/b...-asad-umar-interview-not-an-act-of-censorship
 
Lucky for to have this government! Showing the world the truth. Imran might actually change the dynamics of subcontinent forever. Clearly India fears him and he has cornered them on many occasions, last with Kartarpur corridor. Now showing BBC who is the boss here. With elections in 2019 in India and if Congress pulls of the victory, Imran can dictate the relationship and it won't be the same from then. The leader has arrived!!
 
Oh the BBC has an agenda alright.

There is no neutral reporting anymore. I remember the BBC often equating Imran's election campaign to Trump's. Now, any Pakistani here knows how ridiculous that is. The BBC followed Noonis narrative throughout the elections with repeated mention of IK being army puppet and blatant victimization of noon league. Nowadays, I read BBC's politicial reports with a pinch of salt.
 
Watched part of this interview and it shocked me how Brits (or maybe just white Brits) have unbelievable double standards when it comes to policing the world.

The talk show host had the nerve to morally and ethically question Asad Umar about the friendly relations with Saudi post the Khashoggi murder. You ignorant clown, your country is the second biggest arms dealer to Saudi Arabia and have been a significant factor in Yemen getting bombed into the stone ages as well as facing a potential famine.

I despise Saudi and all their activities but a white man from the UK is the last person that should be condemning anyone for having friendly relations with any backwards state. A right-wing conservative like Boris Johnson was ostracized by your whole country for condemning Saudi's involvement in proxy wars.
 
If the aim of BBC was censorship and keeping Jadhav arrest under the wraps then that has backfired spectacularly. Random people now know about this
 
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