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Winning Sympathy Through Fake News

Brig (R) Asif Haroon Raja
Last updated: June 23, 2025 10:15 am
Brig (R) Asif Haroon Raja
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India and Pakistan are archrivals. The former refuses to reconcile with Pakistan’s existence and keeps hatching conspiracies to unravel it. India is one of the most cunning nations in the world whose acts and deeds conflict. Outwardly, it acts as a friend, but inwardly, it looks for opportunities to stab the so-called friend in the back.

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The writer is a Retd Brigadier, war veteran, defence, security & political analyst. He is the author of five books, patron-in-chief of the CDS Think Tank, ex-Chairman of the TFP Think Tank, Director of the Measac Research Centre, and Administrator of the Fact Check Think Tank. He also participates in TV talk shows.*The views and opinions expressed herein, and any references, are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of the Centre for Development and Stability (CDS).

The Pakistanis from the first and second generations used to rightly mock the Hindu Banyas, “Baghal mein chhuri, munh mein Ram Ram” (a honey tongue, a heart of gall). They looked down upon the Hindus and were convinced that one Muslim was stronger than ten Hindus. There was no difference of opinion about terming India as our arch-enemy.

These trends faded away with the passage of time mainly because of the cultural invasion of India. Bengali nationalism, provincialism, Jayala culture, feudalism, Mutahihida Qomi Movement (MQM) terrorism, ethnicity, sectarianism, radicalism and now cultism diluted the national spirit, patriotism, and the glue of Islam which had kept the heterogeneous society homogeneous.

Pak Army Zindabad

The people loved the Pakistan armed forces, and the Pak Army was always held in high esteem by all segments of the society except for the fifth columnists and a small segment of anti-Pakistan elements who had opposed the creation of Pakistan. That segment has now expanded, and it has made inroads in all the power centers, political parties, and government departments.

Today, rival political parties are viewed as a bigger threat than India. Pak Army which defends the territorial integrity of Pakistan is badmouthed and cursed by a political party and its affiliates.

After the nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, which ruled out a direct war between the two antagonists, India has been slow-bleeding Pakistan through indirect strategy, and has been making use of psychological operations (Psy Ops), propaganda war, coercive tactics, diplomatic war and proxy war in concert with its strategic allies. India has bled Pakistan more profusely in indirect wars, than in all the wars and conflicts it fought with Pakistan.

India’s diplomats and expats in the United States (US) and in Europe have played a big role in winning over the confidence and cooperation of their host countries and making good use of them to tarnish the image of Pakistan and its institutions.

Indian Americans

The highly educated, technically skilled Indian and patriotic Indian lobby in the US is closely aligned with Zionist and Jewish lobbies in the US and has worked its way into all the power centers of the US.

Indian Americans who have become highly influential in the US have cultivated close ties with the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) affiliated expats, and both work in harmony to harm Pakistan’s interests. Kamala Harris is of Indian origin. She almost won the presidential contest last month.

Several American-Indian nationals were given important posts by the outgoing Joe Biden administration.

Every second Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the world reputed technology forums including media are from India. Several of them have been picked up for sensitive jobs like the Federal Board of Investigation (FBI) in the future cabinet of newly elected president Trump.

Like all other presidents of the USA, whether from the Democrats or from the Republicans, they were highly pro India. Pakistan at best is the US tactical partner, hired to serve its regional objectives. It has never fitted into the security paradigm of Washington.

Supporting The Indian Soldiers

There is not a single Indian American national in the US, or an absconding Indian journalist, who are anti-India. All are pro-India and they go out of the way to promote the image of their country of origin and of the elected PM and the Indian armed forces.

The same is the case with the Indian nationals in India. Even the minorities in India who have been under the axe for the last 76 years, dare not talk against the Indian Army.

The Indian media, irrespective of India’s political divide and ethnic diversities, 37 insurgencies including 19 major separatist movements in all parts of India, sing the songs of India and the Indian Army.

India media indulges in massive fakery to glorify India and to paint Pakistan in black. All the false flag operations conducted against Pakistan are smoke-screened by the Indian media and the political leaders of all hues.

All the sins of India against humanity in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and against the Indian minorities are covered up. Pakistan is blamed for the follies and crimes committed by India.

RAW is eulogized and projected as second to none in the world in the field of espionage and its long-arm outreach. Its meddlesome role in all the South Asian states and now in some Western countries was never censured. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is projected as a rogue outfit and a sponsor of cross-border terrorism.

While Pakistan is blighted for being the nursery of terrorism the biggest exporter of terrorism and the most dangerous country in the world, not a word is uttered against one hundred Hindu extremist and terrorist organizations including RSS and BJP.

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Conversely, look at the state of affairs in Pakistan. Political parties, media, vested groups, and pseudo-intellectuals blame the ruling govt, the state institutions, the Army, and the LEAs for every committed and uncommitted sin or error, and make a mountain out of it.

Even the good deeds and plus points are blackened. Doomsayers and snakes in the grass are found in every nook and corner of the country and their stance has always been negative and against the interests of Pakistan.

They add salt to the injuries of Pakistan by glamorizing the adversaries of Pakistan. India under fascist Modi and Bangladesh under fascist Hasina were glamorized. They felt happy when the US or the United Kingdom (UK) admonished Pakistan. Their help was sought to bankrupt and fail Pakistan. Even the officers and men fighting an existential war against the foreign-paid terrorists and getting martyred every day are insulted by these morons.

Similar has been the conduct of Pakistani expats. Instead of acting as ambassadors and assets of Pakistan to promote and protect its interests, they have joined hands with the enemies to undermine Pakistan.

Pakistan Military

Pakistan Army is on the hit list of PTI and Pakistan expats. Retired General Qamar Javed Bajwa was declared a traitor and the current Army Chief General Asim Munir is presented as a monster. All those wanting to save Pakistan from splintering and sinking are declared as their enemies, and the self-proclaimed warriors are highlighted as jihadis, freedom lovers and revolutionaries wanting to achieve real freedom from the shackles of slavery.

They forget about the miserable plight of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan. The misled in these countries were led up the garden path of freedom, liberty, real democracy and prosperity. The handfuls fell prey to the enticing slogans and helped the foreign powers to invade and destroy their countries.

Turkey and Iran are being gradually weakened from within and so is the case with all other Muslim States.

In each case, the Muslim leader who had made his country strong and prosperous was made into a demon and the enemy of his people, and the outsiders were projected as their saviors and well-wishers. The people of the former East Pakistan were also led astray by India in 1971.

Those who were induced to play the game of external powers never realized that the Christian and Hindu powers can never be friends of the Muslims.

What an irony and what a great tragedy. The internal snakes in the grass coupled with Pakistani- American/British snakes have become more poisonous than the external snakes.

The combination of the trio, equipped with hybrid war, and extremism of the radical zealots linked with the emotional cults who believe in hero worship, makes the overall situation precariously dangerous.

Operation Azm E Istehkam

Stringent Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), anti-terrorism and accountability laws combined with Operation Azm Istehkam in the two conflict zones, speedy socioeconomic development, moral rearmament to defeat immorality, and zero tolerance for corruption, nepotism and ineptness in the govt departments can help in mellowing down cultism, radicalism and terrorism.

What is immediately required is to ban violent protests, sit-ins, and the trend of storming the capital city, which necessitates heavy deployment of law enforcement agencies, containerization, road blocks, and lockdowns resulting in paralysis of the state. In every scuffle between the mobsters and the Law and Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), casualties take place on both sides. In each violent act, the spoilers and foreign hands played a big role in igniting the fire of unrest.

After the sordid episode, the blame game starts, each side accusing the other of using excessive force and dramatizing the figure of the dead. The event becomes alarming when the fully armed aliens from Afghanistan or the banned groups get involved and are caught by the police.

Gandapur And Bushra Bibi

The last invasion by the large numbers of stormtroopers led by Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Ali Amin Khan Gandapur and Bushra Bibi on November 24, was horrific. After another big fiasco, the media spin doctors are now playing the theme of dead bodies and are shamelessly describing the scuffle on the night of November 26, as a massacre of PTI workers.

So far, not a single dead body, or the identity of the kin has been produced. Although the figure has now dropped from hundreds to 278 to 12, the narrative of a large number of dead bodies is still in circulation.

Although the night operation was conducted by the police backed by the Rangers, the youtubers and vloggers affiliated with PTI and sitting abroad are pinning the blame of killings upon the Army. The purpose is to again win the sympathy of the people in Pakistan and to demonism the security forces, and to prepare a case for the UN intervention.

PTI intends to take-up the case in the United Nations (UN). It fits into the already known sinister plan of Imran Khan who wanted dead bodies at all costs.

Gandapur after escaping from the scene on November 26, is now hurling threats that his zealots would come fully armed next time. The bedlams are being motivated, trained and equipped to clash with the nuclear state and the PTI’s zombie leaders are feeling confident that they would achieve their goal. They are relying upon the western powers and India to fulfil their dream of recapturing power by force.

Pakistan's solidarity

Frequent paralysis in the country causes huge economic loss and great inconvenience to the people. Pakistan has become a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.

Now that Pakistan is on its way to recovery and is showing good results, the country can ill-afford to get involved in self-destructive pranks, violent protests marches, media hype, and woolly ideas of Khooni Inqilab (Bloody Revolution) and Haqiqi Azadi (True Independence), and projecting a failed leader as a saint and a Messiah.

The judiciary must start playing a constructive role to help in taming the negative forces wanting to impede and block development works.

The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) should expedite completion of all criminal and terrorism cases, and the military courts should be allowed to function and to speed up the process of accountability of the wrongdoers.

Without affective accountability and speedy disposal of corruption and criminal cases, no worthwhile results can be achieved. Sanity must prevail and insanity must be shunned by all and sundry.

The writer is a Retd Brigadier, war veteran, defence, security & political analyst. He is the author of five books, patron-in-chief of the CDS Think Tank, ex-Chairman of the TFP Think Tank, Director of the Measac Research Centre, and Administrator of the Fact Check Think Tank. He also participates in TV talk shows.
*The views and opinions expressed herein, and any references, are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of the Centre for Development and Stability (CDS).
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