TERRORISM COVERAGE FEED THE MEDIA AND TERRORISTS BOTH| EP 5: buried hate n born love - a novel

WHERE IS THE BLUE INVITATION CARD OF SEMINAR

Nofil was about to put on his leave application when captain Junaid came to him,

‘Boss, is asking for the main points, you know this is an international seminar about role of media in terrorism, he wants to prepare it properly,’ captain Junaid asked him

‘What points? Which seminar? What are you talking about?’ Major Nofil responded him irritate.
      ‘Don’t tell me that you forget. Sir is waiting,’ Nofil was still looking at him with blank eyes. Junaid moved his hand in front of his eyes.

‘The ‘seminar’ our department is invited to attend on coming weekend in Karachi about terrorism coverage. Anza gave you the invitation card, I saw it myself, the blue card with golden border’ Junaid reminded him annoyingly.

‘Oh my god,’ Nofil got up, opened his side drawer and looked for the card. He found the torn card under a pile of files. Luckily, the peon put that card in his drawer after looking the date on it.

‘Role of Media coverage at the time of conflict and terrorism’

It was an invitation for a seminar from a group of national and international media agencies. He was also invited to it along with brig. Bakhtiar and Capt. Junaid. it was not an engagement invitation as Anza told her while delivering it.

‘What a fool am I?’ he sat down after reading the card

‘If Anza would know my condition, she would…. my mind got stuck in her presence, in fact.’ he was talking to him with the mixed feelings of embarrassment and happiness.

         ‘What happened to you, you are as happy as you have looked at any wedding invitation’ captain Junaid looked at him without understanding his strange actions.

'Hold on dude, i'm glad as its not a wedding invitation actually. I’ll take the points just in 10 minutes,’ he started his work.
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TERRORISM COVERAGE FEED THE MEDIA AND TERRORISTS
The auditorium was full of news reporters from many countries. Many politicians and army officers were also present there. Many of them addressed the topic specifically:

‘Most of the time the master minds of terrorism exploits the media for the benefit   of their operational efficiency, information gathering, recruitment, fund raising, and propaganda schemes. 

terrorism coverage: role of media & terrorists 

In return, media receives the attention of the public that is vital for its existence and benefits from record sales and huge audiences. Terrorism is an attractive bonus for media coverage, mainly because terrorist attacks make viewer ratings and profits increase. To be more specific, terrorism has many aspects that make it a very striking topic for the media, as it has the elements of drama, danger, blood, human tragedy, sensation stories, miracles, heroes, dreadful footage, and action. Media should cover the incidents but with the conscious reporting, just to focus on delivering the authentic picture of the scene without creating fear in the society. The media should inculcate the values of patience and serenity rather than to dramatize the bloodshed.’
BALANCE BETWEEN FACTS AND FEARS

All participants were giving their solid opinions on the responsibilities of media houses

about liable reporting of terror acts. 
they all were agreed on to maintain balance between creating facts and fears among general people.
Major Nofil was looking for Anza all around, but he couldn’t see her any where.

‘Have you seen Miss Anza?’ he instantly asked her colleague at end of the seminar when they were having dinner.

‘Anza has left the job and went back to Lahore to her home,’ she told Nofil.

‘It was her sister’s wedding, she must be enjoying her sister’s mehndi tonight,’ another colleague added the information.

Nofil instantly reminded her talking about her deployment at North Wazirastan and felt disappointed of her not being there.

LI ENJOYED THE SITUATION 

‘Li, I’ll be there with you on Sunday. Look, I’ll wear the lion’s costume not the dragon’s and we’ll have dinner somewhere out, and it’ll be from me,’ Nofil went to Li at site as soon as he was free.

‘After all you’re our guest in our country, you’ll forget Beijing after looking at the arrangements of your festival here,’ Li noted hype of his excitement.

‘She hasn’t given you the green signal dude, your application is still under process,’ Li couldn’t control his cackles after knowing the real situation.

‘From last two days you were roaming like 爱 in the unit, I mean like ‘majnoo’ in you language,’ Li was still enjoying his embarrassment.

‘Let’s go and visit the site where we have arranged a dragon boat competition on festival,’ Nofil’s mood was very pleasant.
NOFIL PURPOSED ANZA
Then, whats up? You told me to discuss some very important issue with me,’ Anza came to the point.
‘Aaa.. Actually…,’ Nofil took a sip of water. ‘Anza. I’m not any romantic person or don’t know how to impress a woman, but I would say that you are the first girl in my life, whom I liked most,’ Nofil hardly expressed his feelings, which he was hiding for many days.

         ‘You know, at this stage of our life, I might not be flirting. I just want to send my parents to your home. Let made it more simple, will you marry me?’ Nofil decided to be straight forward, as Anza got up and held her bag in her hands. 

‘You said that you have a serious official issue to discuss with me,’ her face got red.

‘I knew you won’t come if …,but please try to understand. I had no choice,’
YOU’RE A GIRL OF MY TYPE but YOU’RE NOT A GIRL OF MY TYPE

                   ‘Look, Nofil, you are a good guy. Any girl will feel blessed in your company but I am sorry, I don’t want to get marry right now. You can say it’s not in my plans at this time,’ Anza controlled her anger and looked at him. She didn’t sit back.

‘Do you like some one else?’ Nofil missed his heart beat while asking this question.

‘What a silly question? I told you…I think I should leave now,’

‘You can take your time, I can wait,’ Nofil called her from back.

‘There are a lot of other girls around. It’ll be better if you utilize your valuable time on any one of them. I would appreciate if you don’t discuss this topic again,’ Anza didn’t know how to put barrier on his feelings about her.

‘Yes, there is lot of girls but I believe that you are the only girl in this world who is born for me. You are actually my type of girl. I always wanted to have a life partner like you. We can have best life in future. I can’t think of any one else after meeting with you,’ Nofil came in front of her.

 ‘You are not my type, we can’t get together, why you don’t understand, it will ruin our life in future,’ some one murmured in Anza’s ears. It went difficult to breath for her. She stood stunt for a while and then left the restaurant.

 ‘Girl of my type, not a girl of my types…,’ echoes and cackling went on chasing her mind for long. ‘Then what type of girl is your choice?’ there was a cackle on her question. She stopped by her car and composed herself.

 ‘Are you OK, Anza? I’m sorry if I said something that disturbed you,’ Nofil got worried by looking at her.

‘I need two years to decide, can you give me this time? You’ll promise, not to force or contact me meanwhile,’ Anza looked at him and asked firmly.

‘I can wait for you for the whole my life,’ Nofil’s response was quiet typical.

‘Then best of luck for your new destination,’ she left the restaurant.

          

OPERATION CALL AT ORMARA

He took out his mobile and message Anza to congrats on sister’s wedding, when he saw brig. Bakhtiar’s call there.

He had to report for an operation at Ormara almost 200 km from Karachi after detecting a suspected activity there. Major Nofil left at once.....

TO BE CONTINUED

disclaimer: all characters are fictions. any resemblance would be coincident