Mr Raman (my namesake!), have you considered other possibilities? Is Amjad Farooqi really dead? Has any independent, intelligent person seen his dead body and convinced himself that the body was that of Farooqi? Was he actually killed in an encounter with Pak forces, or due to other reasons, including natural causes or accident? Fifty years ago, the local idiom in Chennai (erstwhile Madras) for outrageous false news was "Radio Pakistan". Nowadays, TV (as also the Net) has overtaken Radio, but I don't think Pak's penchant for giving out misleading news has changed. I vaguely remember Bush remarking that the Taliban were "habitual" liars, and I think the title really belongs collectively to Pak leaders.
