EU watchdog expose massive Indian disinformation campaign against Pakistan. Investigation by an independent Brussels-based watchdog disclosed pro-Indian campaign targeting at slandering Pakistan within EU institution. EU DisinfoLab, a Brussels-based NGO, a collective power operation, to defame Pakistan’s reputation, is being led by the New-Delhi-based Srivastava Group and exaggerated by Asia News International, an Indian news agency. The operation’s mission is to defame nations in battle with India in the region, in specific, Pakistan and also China to a positive extent.
DisinfoLab researchers say the operation has been running for the past 15 years. It has employed above 750 fake media outlets and more than 550 domain names in 119 countries to strengthen pro-Indian and anti-Pakistan sentiments. At the same time websites have no direct connections to the Indian government; scholars pursued them to a New Delhi-based organization called the Srivastava Group.
DisinfoLab states that the power pushes playbook comprise fake media outlets in Brussels, Geneva and across the world. The NGO disclosed that these way-out rewrap and spread information through ANI and other unclear local media networks in many countries. The interconnection, DisinfoLab stated, narrate content about India’s regional challengers, particularly Pakistan.
EU Chronicle is the latest addition to the long list of websites that have spread anti-Pakistan content online while continually campaigning India’s interests. DisinfoLab analyst mentioned EU Chronicle is a latest fake media site with fake journalists presumably covering European affairs, which offers a display for MEPs to sign agreeable Indian articles.
It is not understandable whether the disinformation campaign is authorized by the Modi government, but the writing evidently contemplate BJP positions and is not likely to be contested without outside force.
It is especially discouraging that some of these disinformation accounts took human rights causes inside Pakistan. Nevertheless it is also hopeless that events inside Pakistan have enabled such a movement to appear genuine.
A large list of websites, DisinfoLab mentioned were used above a period of 15 years to discredit Pakistan. These websites and their social media device were used to publish videos and articles stressing human rights abuses in Pakistan. At the same time, these centers published satisfied reports about India. DisinfoLab’s examination discloses that the names of these website staffers were perhaps not actual.
Some articles, the Brussels-based NGO said were also published in unrecognized. This is one of the most critical open to view of India managed and funded fake news, NGO and think-tank networks created since 2005 to damage Pakistan internationally, specially at the UN and EU.
The world needs to be talking serious taking notice about this. The DisinfoLab, the pro-India operation is actively creating informal working groups inside the Parliament, organizing fake newsgroups, as well as persuading parliamentary questions to the European Commission.
All such behavior , the investigators at DisinfoLab mentioned were targeted at drawing Pakistan as the rogue and India as a defender of worldly accepted values. Called as ‘zombie sites’ as they were improved from lifeless media outlets, these centres were conttiuously used to upgrade content that was against Pakistan. Many of these fake websites also used names same to active and expired news outlets to provide a mask or probability.
Syed Hassan Akbar, Senior policy specialist at the national security division that his is one of the most serious expose of India run, managed and funded FAKE news, NGO and think-tank networks created since 2005 to insult Pakistan internationally, Particularly at the UN and EU.
Dr. Wizart a Karachi based scholar severely condemned the actions. She said Pakistan need to bring into open India on every international forum. Specifically on issues near to the Indian State’s interest, DisinfoLab the think tanks and publications were very active. 11 MEPs took part in an October 2019 trip to Jammu and Kashmir, sponsored by the New Delhi-based Srivastava Group.
DisinfoLab researchers also disclosed that many informal European parliamentary groups, including the South Asia Peace Forum, friends of Gilgit Baltistan, and Friends of Balochistan, were established by MEPs who were actively involved in events organized by Indian Chronicles. The extent to which Israel and India have spread and corrupted global conversation in favor of their respective crimes in Palestine and Kashmir through Western think tanks, corruptible NGOs and media exchanges is almost unlimited.
A dead professor and innumerable lifeless organizations were restructured and used alongside almost 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian interests, a new investigation has disclosed. The network was planned basically to discredit Pakistan internationally and spread decision-making at the UN Human Rights Council and European Parliament, EU DisinfoLab stated.
On other events, NGOs and organizations which apparently had nothing to do with Pakistan or India according to their stated aims would get the chance to speak at the UNHRC and target Pakistan. In March 2019, during the UNHRC’s 40th session, United Schools International, another UN-accredited organization with direct links to SG, permitted its place to be used by Yoana Barakova, a research analyst with an Amsterdam-based think-tank the European Foundation for South Asian Studies.