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The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi. COME to think of it, if it was heroic of Daniel Ellsberg to publish the Pentagon Papers and reveal the perfidy of several American presidents in the Vietnam war, or for Julian Assange to expose Western war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, it can hardly be argued that an Indian TV anchor had done any wrong by being well informed about the Modi government’s plans to have a military showdown with Pakistan. On the contrary, the narrative that Arnab Goswami was aware of the Balakot air strike on the eve of Indian elections well before the event took place is something journalists covet. Arnab, who heads his pro-Modi TV channel, however, is no Seymour Hersh, but this particular shortcoming no one is accusing him of. If he did not share the forewarning of an imminent cross-border air strike with the public he could be keeping his word to his sources, which journalists are trained to do. However, as he is believed to have used the insight to

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