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Indian media reports of the assassination of the Pakistani politician
Salmaan Taseer have been deferentially silent on his "Indian
connection"---his dalliance with the columnist Tavleen Singh.
Although Twitter is abuzz, most newspapers (including The Indian
Express, which carries Singh's column on Sundays) have preferred to
ignore any mention of the cross-border connection.
Except...
> An IANS report (http://www.sify.com/news/salman-taseer-s-indian-link-news-national-lbetajcbbfc.html) : "Salman Taseer came to India in March 1980 to promote a laudatory biography of Pakistan's leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. According to columnist Khushwant Singh (http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?240187) , Taseer met Tavleen Singh at the Oberoi hotel where he stayed and fell in love with her. The two married briefly, but fell apart swiftly, leading to much bitterness."
>
> Sankarshan Thakur writes in The Telegraph (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110105/jsp/frontpage/story_13394201.jsp) : "Taseer teased the edge in private as he did in public. He married thrice and a brief tryst with Indian journalist Tavleen Singh produced his best-known progeny, author Aatish Taseer."
>
> Aakar Patel writes in Mumbai Mirror (http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/4/2011010520110105020255628e1593f4b/Like-Benazir-Taseer-paid-for-being-secular.html) : "Taseer was fond of women and stories about his sexual appetite were part of his legend. With socialite-writer Tavleen Singh, he fathered a boy."
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> Sameer Arshad and Omer Farooq Khan in The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/A-colourful-politician-and-a-moderate-voice/articleshow/7220477.cms) : "Taseer married twice and fathered six children including Indian journalist Tavleen Singh's son, Aatish Taseer."
>
> A report in The Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/a-sons-journey-aatish-taseer/articleshow/7219814.cms) : "Born in London in 1980 to Taseer, the slain governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, and renowned Indian journalist Tavleen Singh , a Sikh by faith, Aatish always wanted to discover the faith of his father, Islam."
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From: sri
Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:03 AM
Subject: Salmaan Taseer and the Tavleen Singh connection - Assasination of Pakistani governor Salmaan Taseer
To:
Post : Salmaan Taseer and the Tavleen Singh connection
URL : http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/salmaan-taseer-and-the-tavleen-singh-connection/
Posted : 5 January 2011 at 8:50 am
http://wearethebest.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/salmaan_tavleen_20090323.jpg&h=282
Indian media reports of the assassination of the Pakistani politician
Salmaan Taseer have been deferentially silent on his "Indian
connection"---his dalliance with the columnist Tavleen Singh.
Although Twitter is abuzz, most newspapers (including The Indian
Express, which carries Singh's column on Sundays) have preferred to
ignore any mention of the cross-border connection.
Except...
> An IANS report (http://www.sify.com/news/salman-taseer-s-indian-link-news-national-lbetajcbbfc.html) : "Salman Taseer came to India in March 1980 to promote a laudatory biography of Pakistan's leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. According to columnist Khushwant Singh (http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?240187) , Taseer met Tavleen Singh at the Oberoi hotel where he stayed and fell in love with her. The two married briefly, but fell apart swiftly, leading to much bitterness."
>
> Sankarshan Thakur writes in The Telegraph (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110105/jsp/frontpage/story_13394201.jsp) : "Taseer teased the edge in private as he did in public. He married thrice and a brief tryst with Indian journalist Tavleen Singh produced his best-known progeny, author Aatish Taseer."
>
> Aakar Patel writes in Mumbai Mirror (http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/4/2011010520110105020255628e1593f4b/Like-Benazir-Taseer-paid-for-being-secular.html) : "Taseer was fond of women and stories about his sexual appetite were part of his legend. With socialite-writer Tavleen Singh, he fathered a boy."
>
> Sameer Arshad and Omer Farooq Khan in The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/A-colourful-politician-and-a-moderate-voice/articleshow/7220477.cms) : "Taseer married twice and fathered six children including Indian journalist Tavleen Singh's son, Aatish Taseer."
>
> A report in The Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/a-sons-journey-aatish-taseer/articleshow/7219814.cms) : "Born in London in 1980 to Taseer, the slain governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, and renowned Indian journalist Tavleen Singh , a Sikh by faith, Aatish always wanted to discover the faith of his father, Islam."
>
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OT: One hopes Livemint starts a full fledged newspaper. Check this report:
Desperate UPA seeks to discredit CAG
@Inferno
Mint is published by Hindustan Times. The likes of Open Magazine, Outlook, Tehelka, even Indian Express have been publishing columns not kind to the Congress and even a piddly tax tribunal (Bofors) is kicking their heinies now.
Who knows, maybe a bunch of white guys who matter belatedly figured out that Muslim/Maoist dominated India is not good for their own interests. But something good is surely afoot.
What ISI/Army are to Pakistan, similarly the Kaangress is to India: A State Within A State.
This is what Salman Taseer's estranged son Aatish Taseer said about his slain father
"Already, even before his body is cold, those same men of faith in Pakistan have banned good Muslims from mourning my father; clerics refused to perform his last rites; and the armoured vehicle conveying his assassin to the courthouse was mobbed with cheering crowds and showered with rose petals.
I should say too that on Friday every mosque in the country condoned the killer's actions; 2,500 lawyers came forward to take on his defence for free; and the Chief Minister of Punjab, who did not attend the funeral, is yet to offer his condolences in person to my family who sit besieged in their house in Lahore. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8248162/The-killer-of-my-father-Salman-Taseer-was-showered-with-rose-petals-by-fanatics.-How-could-they-do-this.html
I don't know why he calls them family, they never accepted him.
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