The hardline supporters of BJP even raised online slogans of sending editor-in-chief #BarkhaDutt to Pakistan.
The action was followed by a news report done by Barkha Dutt tracking the arrival route adopted by the infiltrators in Punjab, A news story was carried on the NDTV online portal, claiming that two vehicles loaded with terrorists entered the base and therefore there could be more militants rather than the six who were reported to be locked in an encounter with security forces.
Twitteratis also highlighted the claims made by Barkha Dutt in her book This Unquiet Land – The stories beneath India’s fault lines, where she claimed that Modi-Nawaz met for nearly a hour ‘secretly’ in Kathmandu during the SAARC summit. However, the Ministry of External Affairs rubbished it calling it ‘baseless’.
