Pakistan article flays media coverage of Lahore attacks.

Text of article by Ismail Khan headlined "Lahore carnage: Punjab still in state of denial" published by Pakistan newspaper Dawn website on 30 May

Punjab is still in a state of self-denial. As gunmen, lobbing hand grenades and firing automatic weapons killed 79 worshippers, all that television anchors and those sitting inside the television studios were keen to find out from their reporters covering the carnage in Model Town and Garhi Shaho was the ethnic identity of the assailants.

"How were they dressed?" asked one newscaster. "They were wearing shalwar kameez [traditional dress]," the reporter responded. "And they looked like Pathans," the reporter added. Even after the police claimed clearing up the two places, anchors remained curious. "Are they locals," asked a senior anchor who …