The British parliamentarian Stephen Pound has supported the claims by referring to the BBC's whitewashing of the terror attacks as 'the worst sort of mealy mouthed posturing. In protest against the use of the word 'gunmen' by the BBC, the journalist Mobashar Jawed 'M.J.' Akbar refused to take part in an interview after the Mumbai attacks and criticised the BBC's reportage of the incident. In 2008, the BBC was criticised for referring to the men who carried out the November 2008 Mumbai attacks as 'gunmen', rather than 'terrorists,' used to describe the attacks in UK. Pinkerton observed a tumultuous history involving allegations of anti-India bias in the BBC's reportage, particularly during the Cold War, and concluded that the BBC's coverage of South Asian geopolitics and economics showed a pervasive and hostile anti-India bias because of the BBC's alleged imperialist and neocolonialist stance. Writing for the 2008 edition of the peer-reviewed Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Alasdair Pinkerton analysed the coverage of India by the BBC from India's 1947 independence from British rule to 2008. He concludes that the BBC's efforts to reinforce stereotypes of South Asians has been directly responsible for damaging the image of India and encouraging racist incidents against Indians, such as the Leipzig University internship controversy. The journalist Christopher Booker also criticised the BBC for its coverage of India-related matters. In addition, Addy alluded to discrimination against Indian anchors and reporters in favour of Muslim Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who are hostile to India.

In The Hindu Business Line, the reporter Premen Addy criticised the BBC's reportage on South Asia as consistently anti-India and pro- Islamist, underreporting India's economic and social achievements and political and diplomatic efforts and disproportionately highlighting and exaggerating problems in the country. 1.1.2 Pakistani propaganda against IndiaД¬ontroversy and criticism Anti-Hindu bias and Indophobia.

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