On the contrary, the advisory provided the perfect backdrop for many a channel to indulge in unabashed warmongering. Such has been the impact of the hyper-emotional coverage of the Pulwama tragedy that every political party has come out in full support of the government in this “hour of national crisis”. The manufactured outpouring of grief over Pulwama and the talk of strikes (or even war) against Pakistan has two aims. But the intelligence failure is embedded in a bigger political failure. After the Pulwama massacre, his father, Ghulam Hassan Dar, said, “It is bad that people from both sides are getting killed.

Source: The Telegraph February 18, 2019 03:33 UTC