Adil Najam
This rather striking picture, taken by Associated Press in Peshawar Pakistan is remarkable just for it captivating composition. But I have no doubt that our readers will not disappoint in making more of this than probably needs to be made!
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By the way, for photo journalism no permission is needed unless the pic somehow jeapordizes someone…. Do you think they get permission from celebs who are also mothers and sisters… Or from earthquake victims…. Or from people who have parked wrong?
As this discussion shows this is a legitimate news photo… From what I can see only one person has has ” bad thoughts” on seeing this…. Guess who!!!!
wow M Ishaq Sahib, I guess you are right…. Asli danger to Islam and our maeen bahnein are these photographers …. Those guys blowing up Pakistanis including many maeen behnain are doing God,a work….. Wah wah bhai, kiya logic hai aap ok
Well, frankly speaking, the comments made by Tina are far more interesting than the blog :-) ‘Das was sehr lustig, Tina. Du hast sagte die schwer punkte, super!’
Yesterday, i was checking ‘Pakistan’ tagged vids on youtube and the most popular, rated, relevant were mostly porn!
Thats the image we have as a country over youtube.
so if a girl with a duppatta is represented at AP, y not!
but only if she allowed them to.
but this whole valentine affair doesnot reflect pakistaniat, to me atleast. if it does, then i guess our pakistaniat has lost its essence….
I wonder isn’t everyone who commented here as enthusiastic as everyone else in thinking that their particular point of view is the only valid point of view and the rest is all foam on the surface or even less.
Well who am i to say?
Also what is so important about 14th feb and Valentine’s day? the Christian saints who were ‘martyred’ on this day maybe. But does anyone know about them. About Their lives and their causes.
I would like this discussion to go in that direction too. So that we can learn something new. Learn something about some people and in this process learn a lesson.
guys, I suspected AP of publishing without permission because I have a feeling that it is not very good. I am afraid if they do the same with me and take a picture while I am doing something stupid (yes, I do some stuff that I dont want someone to put on web) then it will be very disturbing for me.
Being aware of our social norms I can easily speculate that if this lady was consulted of this, she would have had refused to be published.
If you google a bit, you would know there are suggestions against publishing your pictures at public places.
My question is did Adil do a right thing by reproducing APs thing here? Probably yes?