FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Mukhtar baba - The Untold Story

Mukhtar Baba: Meet the former Kashmiri journalist Indian security agencies – and media – call a terrorist

Mukhtar Baba has lived life dangerously. As a young man in the early 1990s, he became a militant who fought for Kashmiri separatism. But he gave up the gun, and as the Kashmiris say, was “mainstreamed”. In the two decades that followed, he had a second life as a journalist…

Newslaundry · Dec 2, 2022

Kanpur Prophet stir: One-sided media reports on ‘temple, enemy property’ now part of chargesheet

In his arrest and the accusation of supporting violent protests over the anti-Prophet remarks in Kanpur on June 3, a ghost from the past has come to haunt Mukhtar Baba, his family, and his biryani business.

Newslaundry · Oct 28, 2022

Kanpur police link Muslim protests against Nupur Sharma to ‘takeover of Hindu land’

To build its case against the alleged perpetrators of the Kanpur violence in June, the Uttar Pradesh police invoked a conspiracy theory: that the local Muslims were trying to “take over” Hindu land “under the guise of riots”.

Newslaundry · Aug 31, 2022