[Regardless of this fanciful tale having been busted, the Lie Manufacturing Machines are relentlessly circulating it. Hence, this post.
<<The report of a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) pilot being lynched to death by his own countrymen sounded straight out of a movie script. Turns out the report—based on a singular Facebook post—may have very well been a result of the Facebook post’s writer’s imagination. On March 2, a Firstpost report by Praveen Swami stated that “Pakistan Air Force Wing Commander Shahzaz-ud-Din, the F-16 pilot shot down in a dogfight over the Nowshera sector, is reported to have been lynched by a mob who mistook him for an Indian airman”. On March 1, a day before the Firstpost report was published, a London-based lawyer, Khalid Umar, had posted the exact same details of the purported killing of a PAF pilot on Facebook. The Firstpost report cited Umar as a source stating that he [Umar] had received this information “privately, from individuals related to the F-16 pilot’s family”. ... Umar told Newslaundry that Shahzaz-ud-Din was one of three sons of Air Marshal Waseem-ud-Din, who had retired from the PAF. He claimed that apart from multiple PAF sources, this was also confirmed to him by Air Marshal Waseem-ud-Din’s family. However, Newslaundry’s investigation proves these claims to be false. When we asked Umar about it, his responses were nothing short of a U-turn. Here’s what our investigation revealed: Air Marshal Waseem-ud-Din has two sons, not three. Neither of them is in the PAF. When Newslaundry brought this up with Umar, he said it “doesn't matter” who was in the aircraft: “It doesn’t matter whether it was some Abbas or some Shahzaz. But someone definitely was on it.” ... A photograph has also been doing the rounds on social media of “Wing Commander Shahzaz-ud-Din”. Newslaundry found pictures of a joint air force training between China and Pakistan which took place in October 2015 at China’s Yinchuan air base. One of the photos shows Chinese and Pakistani Air Force pilots standing in a group photo, while another is captioned “Pakistani fighter pilot before Chinese Su-30”. There’s no mention of Wing Commander Shahzaz-ud-Din, but the photo has been circulated on social media claiming to a picture of the “fallen” PAF pilot. Yet this photo is of Group Captain Agha Mehar, a pilot with the PAF. Mehar has approached several senior journalists in Pakistan pointing out Indian media’s misuse of his photo.>> (Excerpted from sl. no. I. below.) <<BOOM got in touch with Zaffar Abbas, Chief Editor of Pakistani newspaper Dawn, to confirm whether they were stopped from publishing the story on WC Shahzaz Ud Din’s death, as claimed by the viral WhatsApp messages. Abbas rubbished the claims, saying, “I can say with authority that we at Dawn neither commissioned any such story, nor were we asked or instructed to block its publication.” BOOM found a website called China Arms, who had used the same photo on their website in a post from October 4, 2015, and had labeled the aircraft as an SU-30. ... This leads us to believe that the story about a third son called Wing Commander Shahzaz Ud Din has been made up by using the identity of Air Marshal Waseem Uddin as an inspiration.>> (Excerpted from sl. no. II. below.) Both the analytical reports below, carried simultaneously, are fairly exhaustive and backed up with a number of screenshots and photographs.] I/II. https://www.newslaundry.com/2019/03/05/why-claims-about-the-paf-pilots-lynching-dont-add-up?fbclid=IwAR2hk3sTY243Na-eVDMI3zrYMfhBI-pWmqln1jiJfbj6cUGEUnOMunISQFM Why claims about the PAF pilot’s lynching don’t add up Air Marshal Waseem-ud-Din has two sons. Both live in the United Kingdom and neither has served in the PAF. By Prateek Goyal | Mar 5, 2019 Snipped II. https://www.boomlive.in/the-mysterious-tale-of-paf-wing-commander-shahzaz-ud-din/?fbclid=IwAR29v5WORcsLsKLu1one-bIYeOrJhNNR0UznRtQvDCJfVedtbIr5ry9A8bE The Mysterious Tale Of PAF Wing Commander Shahzaz Ud Din Several Indian media outlets ran a story about a Wing Commander Shahzaz Ud Din being the Pakistani pilot who lost his life during the Indo-Pak aerial engagement, based on hearsay and unfounded social media claims. ByArchis ChowdhuryPublished on Mar 05 2019 2:22 pm, Last Updated: Mar 20 2019 7:03 pm Snipped -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
