Completely Half-witted Propaganda

There appears to be a new and rather sordid effort to denigrate Akbar Bugti, the slain Baloch leader. It comes in the guise of an email, currently doing the rounds in Pakistan, titled “House of Akbar Bugti.”

The email, which contains photos of luxurious ‘cave’ rooms (one of the fake pics depicted above), seeks to convey the impression that Nawab Bugti was living in complete luxury when Musharraf’s commando’s came to eliminate him.

Well, it took a vigilant blogger, Adil Najam, less than 15 minutes to track the pictures of the luxury cave rooms to the Cappadocia Cave Hotel in Turkey.

In his blog ‘Spreading Lies’, Adil Najam had this to say:

I do not know who came up with this idea. If it was some zealot intelligence agency wallah, then it is particularly un-intelligent, even for our intelligence agencies. Or, maybe, it was just another super-patriot thinking that this will somehow help Pakistan; think again, you just made us all look not just needlessly violent, but abjectly dumb. Well done!

Quite interestingly, I have just discovered that the above link to the Cappadocia Cave Hotel is currently inaccessible in Pakistan. Not surely blocked I hope?

So for Pakistani readers unable to get to the source of some of these bogus pictures I suggest you click the following link: Cappadocia Cave Hotel.

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