23-08-2021, 06:54 PM
scottishtv post_id=34914 time= user_id=1012 Wrote:The BBC's Secunder Kermani now in Kabul and reporting from the streets, as well as live on the Six. Another tweet of his from a few days ago revealed that his colleague Malik Mudassir who did some live updates on the weekend news - captioned as 'BBC journalist' - is actually a cameraman and editor who filled in on-air at an urgent moment.
(An interesting first hand account of working in Kabul by Malik is also on the website.)
I'd been wondering about this since seeing Mudassir last Sunday! My theory was that he was a local journalist retained by the BBC, and he was being used after Doucet couldn't get in. He looked rather nervous but by god, so would I have been if I'd been in his shoes.