As WUWT commenter “Andrew30” puts it, “the silence is telling”. The biggest story in the world today happens in their own backyard, and they don’t report it?
See for yourself at the Pakistan Daily Times: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk
So much for a “new voice for a new Pakistan” I suppose. Gaddafi’s NATO air strike seems to be OK though.
I wonder if the Hyatt Regency knows they are advertising on this site?
Here’s a great backstory on the whole thing:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/the-secret-team-that-killed-bin-laden (h/t to Steve Mosher via Facebook)
UPDATE: about six hours after this was posted, a story finally showed up on the website. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk Maybe they are just slow, but there hardly seems to be a newsroom in the world that didn’t race to get this story up, arguably, one of the biggest in the last decade – Anthony
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I bet they have coverage the says Obama’s birth certificate is faked……
I wonder if Osama had any Gold Passport Points?
This complaint is misplaced…. and quite ignorant.
For Pakistan, PPP joining forces with the Muslim League ( the venerable party that created Pakistan in the first place ) Is a lot bigger news, and it is really earth shattering in it’s future implications. It almost guarantees PPP win in the next election.
Compared to that death of UBL is a non event.
and for americans ( and pakistanis too ), that is a very good news. This friday, ML party big wigs most probably will instruct the Imams know that they should focus on this news, instead of whipping up a feeding frenzy.
REPLY: Sorry, but the death of OBL is the biggest story in the world today, the criticism stands. – Anthony
Of course they don’t wanna run it. They just had a major foreign military operation happen in their country and they didn’t even know it. Why? Because of a genuine concern for the security and integrity of the operation…as a result of the corruption of the government.
What’s really comical is the byline at the bottom under National..: “Low literacy responsible for deteriorating law and order”
Perhaps it is best if this kept low key in Pakistan.
The potential for this to inflamed by anti-American forces into a major Pak-US problem is quite large.
We (rightfully, imho) just invaded a sovereign nation to kill people and blow up stuff in its territory.
Not tossing gasoline on this smouldering problem is probably a good idea.
At the least, there is a huge conflict of goals in the Pakistani leadership.
If there are parties in Pakistan who are truly pro-western and anti-Jihadi, we need to help them and not hurt them by enabling reactionary forces to fan the flames of public opinion on this.
I’m willing to bet that they haven’t quite figured out how to explain the fact that Obama was living in a mansion within walking distance of Pakistan’s top military academy – in a neighborhood filled with retired senior Pakistani military officers.
Obviously Obama knew he was among friends.
and the 2 brothers, caretakers who supposedly built and owned this $1,000,000 mansion were nothing but unemployed day laborers who had no actual jobs. But they’re the “owners”??? Obviously the Paki govm’t has from the start scrubbed all the records and laundered all of the funds for this place. This was a Paki govm’t safe house, which is why the US didn’t tell them about the operation until it was over.
maybe the funniest part is that by staging a military raid *inside* Pakistan, in a military town, the US has technically just committed an Act of War against Pakistan; except that now the Pakistanis are going to have to stand and smile and chant in unison “Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?? Thank You Sir, May I Have Another??”
ROFL! No wonder they don’t want to talk about it!!!
Although nandheeswaran may have a point about the importance of current events, Anthony is correct, to the point he is making: The death of Osama is *big news*.
…on the other hand, the Times of India (long one of my favorite reads) has prominently covered this story!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Of all the Brit broadsheets, the Telegraph remains my favorite.
The death of OBL is of course the biggest story in the world today and a wonderful day for America and the world, but equally true is that there are probably as many Pakistanis who are saddened by this event as are happy about it. With that nation so divided with their loyalties it it not surprizing at all that certain newpapers (whose loyalties become apparent) would not want to put the death of OBL as the headline. Given the fact that Pakistan is so divided and given that they possess nukes, this remains a key security issue for the world.
Anthony, while Usama may be the biggest story in the world at the moment, it’s a climate vs weather thing. If the global climate is cooling/warming, you wouldn’t expect a local farmer to worry about it if his local weather is having a buttload of rain right when he wants to harvest.
Pakistan doesn’t care nearly as much about the global temperature trends (the Usama story) as much as they do about getting a ton and a half of rain right now (the PPP story). That rain is a lot more important at the moment than worldwide trends.
However, that said – you’d think they would have at least put up some sort of Usama story, even if it wasn’t the top story. Last time I heard, newspapers can write more than one story at a time!
All Hail JSOC.
I agree we are ignorant of the reasons the news is not being trumpeted in Pakistan.
It is embarrassing and it is an act of war.
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Whilst the civilised World rejoices, alot of Medevialists will be screaming and shouting “death to America”.
They are too contorted with hatred to realise that Bin Laden and his followers killed more Muslims than the “Great Satan”.
Ooh, wws, beat me to it. Nonetheless, if ’twere done, ’twere well it were done quickly and quietly.
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The age of declaring war is over; that of doing war persists.
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no surprise….
Pakistan has been saying he was not in their country all along……
ISI got de Bom. This was brilliantly executed but there had do be a better way. They took their time.
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Anyone know if there is a global warming conference in Denver I don’t know about? Got up in a Denver suburb this morning and there was snow on the ground. It melted pretty fast, but now it’s 1 PM and it’s snowing again.
I could not open the newspaper, but did you consider the question of time difference. Pakistan is 9 hours ahead of the U.S. President Obama did not formally announce the death of Osama bin Laden until after 12:00 AM. Could it be that this paper went to press before 9:00 AM in Pakistan, and was not updated.
Anthony, you should know that in today’s world, one cannot cover up this type of news. Indeed, if you do some research, you will find that twitter feeds from some computer programmer in Pakistan were the source of the initial reports regarding OBL’s killing.
I think it would be wise for you to wait until tomorrow’s editions before drawing firm conclusions.
The odd thing I find about the reporting of his death on the BBC and the msm in the uk is that they do not identify his nationality?
Dan: “However, that said – you’d think they would have at least put up some sort of Usama story, even if it wasn’t the top story.”
Having talked to some Pakistanis on another site, they don’t believe he was killed. They think that it’s some kind of US hoax.
Here, this is from a guy in Islamabad:
“Killing Osama by American troops primafacie not matching the facts and story,people started raising questions why America do not show the body pictures and seen of his injuring on spot and receiving bullet shots, There appears many stories that Osama already expired and same was confirmed By Pakistani and as will as American agencies So being the present conspiracy theory was brought forwarded. “
Ironically, and paradoxically, we need bigtime empathy with the Pakistanis, now. Per the tweets: I hope this is not the start of something big. There goes the neighborhood.
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When I first saw this post’s headline:
“Guess which newspaper does not have OBL on the front page? ”
Thought for sure it was going to be the NYTimes.
Rumor has it they found Obama’s birth certificate clenched in Osama’s fist.
Something along the lines of:
This isn’t personal, it’s just business.
Better:
This isn’t business. This is personal.
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Perhaps the Pakistanis know something that we don’t, and are practicing something called journalistic integrity in determining the real facts before pasting sensationalistic headlines across the front pages. All of the hoopla thus far is based upon a few carefully scripted accounts provided by Obama and other government officials.
But then again, we know that Obama is very reliable and trustworthy in everything he has to say.