Pakistan Urges India to Halt Disinformation Campaign
Pakistan Urges India to Halt Disinformation Campaign
Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri. Courtesy Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Office spokesman advises Delhi to fix its domestic concerns rather than ‘wasting time peddling falsehoods’
The Foreign Office on Thursday urged India to cease dissemination of concocted propaganda against Pakistan, and called on the global community to take notice of such malicious falsehoods.
In his weekly press briefing, spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that Pakistan “strongly condemned” the revelations of a recent report by EU DisinfoLab, which has exposed a “vast network” of fake media outlets, NGOs and think-tanks working to undermine Pakistan internationally. While the report has not specified the state’s direct involvement in the disinformation campaign, it has noted that Delhi-based Asian News International often quotes fake op-eds as news articles and is widely shared in India.