ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has uncovered the misinformation marketing campaign being run in Pakistan after Operation Sindoor destroyed 9 terror websites. Showing on a CNN interview, Khwaja Asif bizzarely attributed his claims of Pakistan capturing down 5 Indian jets to proof on Social media. When requested for proof of the declare that 5 Indian fighter jets had been shot down, he responded, “It is all around the social media, on Indian social media, not on our social media. The particles of those jets fell into Kashmir. And it is throughout Indian media as we speak and so they have admitted.” The Anchor replied, “I am sorry we did not ask you right here to speak about social media content material.”
When requested additional concerning the particulars concerning how the fighter jets had been shot down and what tools was used, Khawaja Asif couldn’t reveal the aircraft utilized by Pakistani forces. Requested concerning the proof for the declare and whether or not Pakistan used Chinese language tools to shoot down Indian jets, he mentioned, “No, Chinese language tools. Now we have Chinese language planes, JF-17 and JF-10. They’re Chinese language planes, however they’re being manufactured, assembled in Pakistan now. Now we have very near Islamabad, we’ve a facility over there the place these planes are manufactured and if India can purchase planes from France and use them, we are able to additionally purchase planes from China or Russia or United States, UK and use them.”
Earlier in April, Khawaja Asif made an enormous admission by stating that Pakistan has been funding and backing terror teams in a viral video clip. In a video clip that has now gone viral, Pakistan’s defence minister was in dialog with Sky Information’s Yalda Hakim, when she asks him, “However you do admit, you do admit, sir, that Pakistan has had a protracted historical past of backing and supporting and coaching and funding these terrorist organisations?”
In response, Asif mentioned, “Now we have been doing this soiled work for the US for about 3 many years… and the west, together with Britain…That was a mistake, and we suffered for that, and that’s the reason you might be saying this to me. If we had not joined the struggle in opposition to the Soviet Union and in a while the struggle after 9/11, Pakistan’s monitor file was unimpeachable.” Asif’s assertion lays naked the truth that Pakistan, for a few years, has been harbouring these terror teams.
On Wednesady, the Indian Armed Forces launched a strike on the terror hideouts deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir underneath ‘Operation Sindoor’ on Wednesday morning in response to the Pahalgam terrorist assault. Wing Commander Vyomika Singh knowledgeable {that a} whole of 9 terror websites had been focused and efficiently destroyed. She asserted that the places had been chosen in order that there was no injury to civilians and their infrastructure.
Pakistan acknowledged the strikes and its impression. Nonetheless, Pakistan began spreading claims that they’ve shot down 5 Indian fighter jets. In mild of this, the fact-checking crew of India’s Press Data Bureau (PIB) shared quite a few posts on X, during which they defined how Pakistani social media are sharing outdated and unrelated pictures of crashed plane, claiming that they had been downed Rafale.
One of the crucial distinguished examples is a viral picture falsely claiming that the Pakistan Military had shot down an Indian Rafale jet close to Bahawalpur. The picture, nevertheless, was debunked by PIB Truth Test, which confirmed that it was truly from a MiG-21 crash in Moga, Punjab, in 2021 — totally unrelated to present occasions.
One other brazen piece of misinformation surfaced within the type of a video falsely claiming that the Indian Military raised a white flag and surrendered at Chora Submit. This fabricated narrative was amplified by Pakistan’s Minister Attaullah Tarar, who publicly endorsed the declare and not using a shred of proof. By lending official weight to an unverified and clearly false story, Tarar not solely misled his personal residents but additionally actively contributed to the propaganda marketing campaign.