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Slain Cop's Crying Daughter: Why Did Pic Not Get Pulitzer Prize?
By: Tupaki Desk | 7 May 2020 7:07 AM GMT
The Pulitzer award to two Kashmiri photographers who showed India and its security forces in poor light has now become controversial. Many people and parties, including the ruling BJP are questioning the rationane behind giving awards to photos which are anti-India. All the photographs are from the Associated Press, showing the prize selection committee's pro-US bias.
A police officer of Jammu Kashmir, Imtiaz Hussain Mir, an SSP, has taken on the Associated Press when he tweeted the heart-searing photo of the daughter of the martyred police official who was killed in the recent encounter in Kashmir. The grief-striken daughter's heart-rending cries even as tears roll down her cheek is powerful and tells the tale of the perfidy of the terrorists. In his comments, Imtiaz Hussain Mir said: This picture should haunt the conscience of humanity for times to come. An inconsolable daughter of a police officer martyred in 2017 in Kashmir. Any award for this photograph, he asked.
The Pulitzer awards were given for taking photographs in Kashmir which was under a lockdown post August 5, when the Article 370 was removed. The BJP said that the award talks about Kashmir being a contested territory, which was anti-national. It also questioned the rationale of Rahul Gandhi praising the photographs which term Kashmir as Indian-held Kashmir.
A police officer of Jammu Kashmir, Imtiaz Hussain Mir, an SSP, has taken on the Associated Press when he tweeted the heart-searing photo of the daughter of the martyred police official who was killed in the recent encounter in Kashmir. The grief-striken daughter's heart-rending cries even as tears roll down her cheek is powerful and tells the tale of the perfidy of the terrorists. In his comments, Imtiaz Hussain Mir said: This picture should haunt the conscience of humanity for times to come. An inconsolable daughter of a police officer martyred in 2017 in Kashmir. Any award for this photograph, he asked.
The Pulitzer awards were given for taking photographs in Kashmir which was under a lockdown post August 5, when the Article 370 was removed. The BJP said that the award talks about Kashmir being a contested territory, which was anti-national. It also questioned the rationale of Rahul Gandhi praising the photographs which term Kashmir as Indian-held Kashmir.
