This was a terrorist attack US House panel slams NYT Kashmir coverage
NYT faces backlash from the US House Foreign Affairs Committee for calling terrorists militants in its report on the Pahalgam attack that left 26 people dead
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The New York Times (NYT) has come under fire from the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee over its coverage of the recent terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir Pahalgam, where 26 people were brutally gunned down after reportedly being asked to prove their allegiance to Islam.
The United States House Foreign Affairs Committee, which oversees US foreign policy legislation and national security matters involving foreign countries, condemned the coverage for what it described as mischaracterising the nature of the attack.
The assault was claimed by The Resistance Front, a Pakistan-based terror outfit and a proxy of the UN-designated terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). However, The New York Times (NYT) reported the incident using the term “militants” in its headline, triggering sharp backlash for allegedly downplaying the nature of the attack.
In its report, The New York Times referred to the violence as a “shooting,” noting that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who labelled it a “terror attack.” This framing drew immediate criticism.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee took to social media to publicly rebuke The New York Times for what it called misleading reportage. Sharing a screenshot of the original article, the Committee posted: “This was a terrorist attack, plain and simple. Whether it’s India or Israel, when it comes to terrorism, the NYT is removed from reality.”
The Committee even shared a mock-up of the NYT headline with a correction, statin
2025-04-26
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ANUSHKA TRIPATHI
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