{"id":8173,"date":"2024-04-03T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2024-04-03T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:52:51","slug":"how-india-unleashed-targeted-social-media-campaigns-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=8173","title":{"rendered":"How India Unleashed Targeted Social Media Campaigns against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author: <\/b>Hammad Sarfraz<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation: <\/b>The Express Tribune<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>The Express <\/span>Tribune<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Date\/Place: <\/b>December 26, 2021\/Karachi, Pakistan<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature: <\/b>Reportage<\/span><\/p>

Word Count: <\/b>2700<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2335695\/how-india-unleashed-targeted-social-media-campaigns-against-pakistan<\/span><\/a><\/p>

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Keywords:<\/b> Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Fake News, Disinformation, EU DisinfoLab, Media, Communications, and Afghan Peace Process<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:<\/b><\/p>

Experts told an international summit on communications in Istanbul this December that though prejudice should not reflect in narrative building, what is fatal for public relations strategy is \u201cleaving information vacuums.\u201d That is exactly what ails Pakistan: no communications, not to speak of a communications strategy. This piece is based on a voluminous expos\u00e9 by Brussels-based EU DisinfoLab where it revealed how a network of websites, think tanks, NGOs and organizations \u2013 based across important capitals and multi-national forums \u2013 have been working against the interests of Pakistan for the past 15 years. The author explains disinformation as: \u201cIt’s a feature of totalitarianism, certainly; controlling and distorting information controls and distorts the understanding of those consuming it.\u201d The mass expos\u00e9 was done in two reports in 2019 and the following year. The target of this disinformation network, linked to India, revolves around Pakistan\u2019s image of sponsoring non-state actors, its inability to meet requirements of Financial Action Task Force, backing Kashmiri rebels against Indian \u201crule\u201d, treatment of minorities in the country and the state\u2019s behavior with different ethnic groups. New Delhi has not only been able to weaponize the disinformation but has also succeed in winning many games. This reportage also cites several studies which found India to be the biggest disinformation laboratory even during the COVID-19 pandemic when there should have no scope for misinformation. The worry is not India\u2019s weaponizing the disinformation, but essentially Pakistan\u2019s inability to rise to the occasion and fill the gaps in its nowhere-to-be-seen communications strategy. The vacuum in communications invites manipulation because the control is not in your hand. And Islamabad has paid heavily when Indian-backed networks resurrected dead professors and established fake think tanks to work against genuine Pakistani interests at the United Nations, EU Parliament, UN Human Rights Council in Geneva besides in other world capitals. Before it is too late, Turks need to wake up as T\u00fcrkiye is another target of the vicious disinformation campaigns run from New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>

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By: <\/b>Riyaz ul Khaliq, <\/span>CIGA Non-resident Research Associate<\/span><\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Hammad Sarfraz Affiliation: The Express Tribune Organization\/Publisher: The Express Tribune Date\/Place: December 26, 2021\/Karachi, Pakistan Type of Literature: Reportage Word Count: 2700 Link: https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2335695\/how-india-unleashed-targeted-social-media-campaigns-against-pakistan \u00a0 Keywords: Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Fake News, Disinformation, EU DisinfoLab, Media, Communications, and Afghan Peace Process Brief: Experts told an international summit on communications in Istanbul this December that though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-and-southeast-asia"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false]},"author_info":{"info":["CIGA Staff"]},"category_info":"South & Southeast Asia<\/a>","tag_info":"South & Southeast Asia","comment_count":"0","rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/images.jpg",310,163,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"CIGA Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?author=23"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"South & Southeast Asia<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Author: Hammad Sarfraz Affiliation: The Express Tribune Organization\/Publisher: The Express Tribune Date\/Place: December 26, 2021\/Karachi, Pakistan Type of Literature: Reportage Word Count: 2700 Link: https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2335695\/how-india-unleashed-targeted-social-media-campaigns-against-pakistan \u00a0 Keywords: Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Fake News, Disinformation, EU DisinfoLab, Media, Communications, and Afghan Peace Process Brief: Experts told an international summit on communications in Istanbul this December that though…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}