Pakistan said that it will raise India’s disinformation campaign against Pakistan at all forums, globally.
This comes as the EU Disinfo Labs released a report in which it has investigated Indian dis information and manipulation acts against Pakistan. India has undeniably created and sponsored a vast international network of mostly fake channels and forums, which speak against Pakistan and pose as genuine outlets.
The report highlighted a network of hundreds of fake media outlets and organisations that it said have pushed a pro-India agenda in the European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) bodies to discredit the country’s rivals, in particular Pakistan.
“Today, India is manipulating and misusing the international system for its own nefarious designs,” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said at a press conference, adding that the Indian government was funding the network. He called on the UN and UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to immediately investigate and de-list “10 fake NGOs created by India to malign Pakistan”. He asked the European Union Parliament to begin an investigation into what he termed to be the manipulation of the body and its legislative process by “fake organizations involved in anti-Pakistan propaganda under a fully funded disinformation and influence operation, run by India.”
New Delhi rejected the charges, saying it was Pakistan that was spreading disinformation. “As a responsible democracy, India does not practice disinformation,” Anurag Srivastava, India’s foreign ministry spokesman, told a news conference.
The EU DisinfoLab report also said Indian press agency Asian News International (ANI) was the only press agency to extensively cover material from the disinformation network.
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