Islamabad: The Pakistani village, which was the home of the lone surviving terrorist who attacked Mumbai last month, has become a fortress almost with authorities hushing up people and chasing away journalists.
Pakistani media reports that intelligence officials and plainclothes police have been deployed in Mohammed Ajmal Kasab’s village Faridkot in Okara district of Punjab province. The deployment was made after Kasab’s father admitted that the young man holding a gun in newspaper photographs was his son.
The Geo News channel broadcast pictures of intelligence operatives in the village. The News daily reported that journalists who visited Faridkot on December 6 were surrounded by over 100 people, some of them armed with lathis, who warned reporters not to interview people or do shoot pictures in the area.
Ghulam Mustafa Wattoo, the Mayor of the local council, who has been at the forefront of efforts to deny Kasab's links to the village, warned the journalists that they would be responsible for the "consequences" if they went against the wishes of the people.
One person tried to snatch the camera and wallet of a foreign journalist. A team from a TV channel was assaulted by persons who snatched their mobile phones and digital video (DV) tapes and tried to smash their cameras.
Asim Rana, who was in-charge of the team, said villagers could not take DV tapes from the camera "with such expertise" because they would not know how to extract the tapes. "It clearly shows that some people from the (security) agencies are among the villagers, who are running the whole show," Rana said.
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