Talk:1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir

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--JeffGBot (talk) 03:10, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Unsubstantiated statement
Several parts of this statement (highlighted in bold) are unsubstantiated: Journalists for the far-left newspaper Guardian Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, whose book “The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began” is in the genre of conspiracy theories, claim that the four Westerners were murdered by a pro-government militia group who worked for Indian security forces, but British Communists are known to be sympathetic to Islamists and Pakistan while being hostile towards India.

I believe that Guardian would be classified as left-leaning newspaper but calling it far left seems to imply inherent bias in its reporting. It seeks to cast the authors of the book in an unfavorable light by virtue of their being reporters for the Guardian. Also, the author should kindly back up calling British communists sympathetic to Islamists and hostile towards India with facts or at least opinions from respected sources, along with references quoted.

Navakanna (talk) 16:54, 2 May 2012 (UTC)