Dear Vikram,
         Here's  a brief resume of my tenure in AFP.
  
   1)   Offered job of Special correspondent on Dec 9th, 1986.
   2)   Accepted offer and resumed work on   Dec 9th, 1986.
   3)   Received addendum on dec 11th 1986, stipulating in my aqppointment letter
         that termination rules will adhere to Indian Working Journalists' Act.

   4)    Two years later on 16, November 1988 I was wounded in head and chest by shrapnel while
          discharging my duty as journalist near Jalalabad in Afghanistan.

    5)    Company promised compensation but renaged and paid just my basic surgery bill
           of Rs 11,000 and even before the wounds had healed I was sent back to Afghanistan
           several times which is supported by details on Passport.
            All post-surgery expenses have been borne by me. Huge amount of mail exchanges
           , mostly in French, are supportive documents. 

    6)    Since my apppointment, I have have been receiving wage increments every year without
           fail as token of my work and four separate letters of appriciations of my hard work are
           with me.

   7)      In terms of work. I have covered each and every major event in India i.e.  Babri mosque
            demolition/riots,  Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Kargil war, Gujarat and Maharashtra
            earthquake. Gujarat riots,  several national elections, plane crashes, Kandahar hijack,
            the attack on parliament, epidemics, droughts/floods , nuclear tests, diplomatic issues,
            International events, judiciary, business and sports.
            In Afghanistan covered events dating 1988 to 1996.
            Bangladesh: worked as stand in bureau chief. Visited on several ocassions to covered
            national disasters, etc.
 
    8)     Sri Lanka  and Nepal: ditto.

       I am collecting documents and have in possession a massive piece of paper given by one bureau chief to another in 2000 when AFP Delhi started doing illegal photo clienting and evading tax on income of its expatriate employees.
     
       I am in the process of collecting a list of such clients including those who pays AFP directly either in Hong Kong or London to avoid local taxes.