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| Father of alleged lynched Pakistani pilot casts doubt on India’s claims |
| 2019-03-07 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] Pakistain claimed that it shot down two Indian warplanes in a dogfight over Kashmire last week, but India said that it lost only one aircraft and had also downed a Pak Air Force (PAF) F-16 fighter jet. Islamabad captured and later released an Indian pilot as a goodwill gesture, but reports also emerged about the alleged death of the pilot who flew the Pak F-16. According to a story first reported by Indian news site Firstpost last week and then picked up by multiple Indian media outlets, the pilot, called Shahaz-ud-Din, bailed out of the crashing plane and landed somewhere in the Pakistain-ruled part of Kashmire. Firstpost alleged, citing London-based lawyer Khalid Umar, that an angry mob mistook Shahaz-ud-Din for an Indian pilot and tried to lynch him; he is said to have later died in hospital because of sustained injuries. According to Khalid Umar, who claimed to have talked to the pilot’s relatives, Shahaz-ud-Din was a son of retired Pak Air Marshal Wasimuddin. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... a further look into this story casts doubt on Umar’s allegations. The Hong-Kong based Asia Times found out that while Wasimuddin did serve in the air force, he did not have a son named Shahaz-ud-Din. The veteran marshal told the website that he had two sons who had never flown a plane and have never served for the PAF. One of them, Aleem Uddin, is said to be studying in the UK, while the other one, Waqar Uddin, is a telecom employee. "I have not considered any legal action [against the Indian media]. I actually laughed them off. My sons have been abroad for years. Unfortunately, they have been needlessly dragged into all this," Wasimuddin was quoted as saying. |
| Posted by:Fred |