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Pakistan continues to unfold misinformation about India, together with false claims of assaults on Amritsar. India is countering these lies with fact-checks and proof, emphasising Pakistan’s makes an attempt to mislead the world.
New Delhi:
Maintaining its misinformation warfare alongside three waves of drone and missile assaults on army and civilian targets in India, the Pakistani institution and other people backed by it have continued to unfold lies, together with that Indian armed forces fired missiles on Amritsar, officers have stated.
The officers listed out a sequence of misinformation, half-truths and outright lies propagated by Pakistan to sow discord in India, paint itself in a flattering mild and attempt to acquire the world’s sympathy. Additionally they identified that measures are being taken to counter such misinformation, together with with well timed fact-checks and visible proof.
“Pakistan is working a widespread marketing campaign stuffed with lies concentrating on India, utilizing each official channels and social media to incite communal unrest, unfold false studies about army occasions, trigger panic amongst Indian residents and create worldwide confusion relating to India’s actions,” an official stated.
Among the many greatest lies being peddled by Pakistan, the officers stated, is the declare by Lieutenant Basic Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the Director Basic of Pakistan’s Inter-Providers Public Relations (ISPR), that India fired missiles on Amritsar. One other false declare, in the identical vein, was that India had attacked the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan.
Blasting Pakistan for the outrageous allegation, International Secretary Vikram Misri stated on Friday that it continued to make efforts to mislead the world.
“Pakistan made the preposterous and outrageous declare that it was the Indian Armed Forces and the Indian Air Drive that was concentrating on cities like Amritsar and making an attempt to place the blame on Pakistan. That is nothing however a determined try by Pakistan to disown its acts of aggression. However additionally it is true to sort in its effort to deceive and mislead the world. It is not going to succeed,” he stated.
Mr Misri slammed Pakistan once more on Saturday, calling it out on its “lame try”.
“Pakistani officers additionally proceed to make ludicrous claims about India firing missiles in direction of Shri Amritsar Sahib. As I stated, these lame makes an attempt to divide India are doomed to failure,” he stated.
Inflating Army May
Accounts in Pakistan have been spreading propaganda in regards to the destruction of Indian bases in Gujarat, Uri, Nagrota and Rajouri and, equally, a information channel, PTV, stated the Akhnoor and Bathinda airfields had been destroyed. All of those claims have been debunked.
Since India started Operation Sindoor on Wednesday, in response to the Pahalgam terror assault, a number of claims of Indian jets being downed have been made with photographs of earlier crashes.
The officers stated that, to unfold panic amongst individuals in India, rumours had been additionally unfold about explosions at Jaipur and Srinagar airports and infrastructure of railways and electrical energy suppliers being destroyed.
One other huge, and false declare, was that India had fired missiles at Afganistan and Iran. This, too, has been referred to as out by Mr Misri.
“There may be this fully ludicrous declare that Indian missiles have hit Afghanistan. Completely frivolous allegation. And I solely need to level out that Afghan individuals do not must be reminded about which nation it’s, that has, on a number of events in simply the final one and a half years, focused civilian populations and civilian infrastructure in Afghanistan,” the international secretary stated.
India’s Response
“India has responded to this info assault with a agency, evidence-based technique rooted in transparency and accountability,” an official stated.
One of many methods it’s doing that is by well timed and correct fact-checking with visible proof. A devoted staff has been deployed, which is tracing the origins of deceptive movies and confirming the true dates and context of recycled photographs.
The Press Data Bureau’s fact-checks have been shared by means of varied channels, together with X, to nip Pakistan’s propaganda within the bud.
In a video shared by a number of pro-Pakistan handles, it’s being falsely claimed that the Pakistan Airforce has focused Srinagar airbase#PIBFactCheck
❌ The video shared is previous and NOT from India.
✅The video is from sectarian clashes that came about within the yr 2024, in… pic.twitter.com/vPmMq4IWdE
— PIB Truth Verify (@PIBFactCheck) Could 7, 2025
Press briefings by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs and Ministry of Defence, they stated, have additionally shared verifiable proof and stored individuals briefed about what is definitely happening.
“India’s counter marketing campaign has gone past refutation, additionally it is revealing the systemic flaws in Pakistan’s army infrastructure that the disinformation is designed to obscure. The marketing campaign highlights how Pakistan’s army, usually postured as a formidable drive, functioned extra like a company purchaser of international weapons than a coherent warfighting machine,” the official stated.