The Karachi Information Super-Highway (via India and Chicago)

If you want to know what is going on in the streets of Karachi the first place you should check is NBC5 in Chicago. NBC5 gets an up-to-date news feed from the Press Trust of India Website and quotes them. The Press Trust of India website knows what is going on in Karachi long before anyone in Karachi does. In 2003 when all the Karachi news sources were reporting that Aafia Siddiqui was wanted for questioning, the PTI got the scoop on all of them and reported she had already been arrested, even though there are no witnesses to back the claim up. Could the PTI have made a mistake? Of course not. Has anyone bothered to ask them what the source of their exclusive discovery was? Why bother? If it was written on the internet it must be true.

It really is sad, because if people believe this report to be evidence of Aafia's and her kid's being arrested, then surely the source of this report should be able to give clues to unravel the her mysterious disappearance. Why isn't anybody asking PTI wht they reported this? The likely answer is that it was an error and she was never arrested in 2003. Getting to the bottom of the mystery does not help the people who demand Aafia's unconditional release. The arrest is part of their horror story they use to stir up hatred towards the Pakistani government and the US.