Ashraf Javed LAHORE Indian media has launched a fresh propaganda war against Pakistan after its Army Chief General VK Singh attempted to exploit the death of a Pakistani soldier who had died in a New Delhi hospital in 2007 due to kidney failure. Almost the entire Indian media influenced by propaganda machines reported on Tuesday that 'ISI man on Delhi suicide op is martyr on Pak Armys website. The media-hype was created as the Indian Army Chief said that Pakistan Army had exposed its intentions by owning up and hailing as a martyr an ISI 'suicide bomber who died in an Indian hospital. Responding to Indian medias assertions that the Pakistan Army website had apparently 'owned up to an 'ISI agents death by honouring him on its page, Gen. V K Singh said, 'It (the web post) clearly shows what their intentions and ways are and what their next move will be. India needs to remain alert. Well-placed sources in the countrys security establishment strongly rejected the Indian Army Chiefs claim as baseless and ridiculous. Setting aside the fact that the web post on Pakistan Armys page appears to be attempted sabotage and the latest episode of the ongoing Cyber war between hackers of Pakistan and India, the man in question, Naik Zulfiqar Ahmed was an employee of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi. He was in India legally and enjoyed full diplomatic status and immunity. He was taken to hospital due to kidney failure and passed away at Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, after undergoing a lengthy treatment. His body was subsequently handed over to the Pakistan High Commission and was buried in Pakistan in 2007. The death certificate and medical report (copies of which also available with The Nation) confirms that the man died due to kidney failure. The report archived by doctors Dr AK Bhalla, Dr Ashwani Gupta and others at Ganga Ram Hospital (New Delhi) confirms that Zulfiqar Ahmed was 'admitted on November 1, 2007. In the official reports, Naik Zulfiqar Ahmed has been referred to as 'Mister and a 'Gentleman not the words one would associate with a suicide terrorist. Furthermore, the report adds that there was possibility that Zulfiqar Ahmed was a patient of pneumonia. Medical reports obtained from Lady Hardinge Medical College show Zulfiqar Ahmeds body was embalmed there on November 16, 2007, three years ago. Indian authorities were fully aware of the legal and diplomatic status of Naik Zulfiqar Ahmed and his treatment and death at the Indian hospital. This ,however, has not stopped Gen. V K Singh in lending credibility to baseless media reports which would be laughable if they werent tragic. Indian medias attempt to exploit a soldiers death, who died of kidney fssm18cailure while on duty for political gain, is disgraceful and tasteless. Another explanation for the erroneous posting on Pakistan Armys website points to it being possibly just a typographical error. Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers have been martyred in suicide attacks in the last few years and have this mentioned as the cause of death on the 'Shuhada Corner on Pakistan Armys website. Bizarrely, the same page which apparently links Naik Zulfiqar Ahmed to a 'suicide mission also contradicts this information immediately below by mentioning his cause of 'Shahadat or martyrdom as 'Neptrotic Syndr-ome/ARI (a reference to nephrotic syndrome and acute respiratory infection). Even though it may be possible in the make-believe land of Bollywood for a man to simultaneously blow himself up in a terror attack and die due to kidney failure at a major hospital, anyone with an ounce of common sense can see through the holes in this fabricated story being propagated by the Indian media in the name of 'journalism. And General V K Singh should really have done better than confirming what many suspect he is a man of few words. The Indian media claimed that an ISI agent who was on a 'suicide attack mission died in a New Delhi hospital on November 16, 2007 soon after the Indian establishment feed the baseless story to the media. More interestingly, three years after his death, New Delhi presumed that it is possible, however, that the agent ISI man on Delhi 'suicide mission is martyr on Pak Armys website was arrested or captured and brought to the hospital for treatment.