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An open letter
July 17, 2021
This is an open letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan. We are writing to you as a group of cross-party parliamentarians in the UK. We are concerned about the June 3 judgment of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; the verdict says that the Edwardes College, Peshawar should be run and managed as specified in Para 4 of the Privately Managed Schools and Colleges (Taking Over) Regulations 1972 (Regulation No 118). The SC decision has come despite the fact that the earlier Peshawar High Court decision of 2016 declared the college to be an independent church-run institute. Also, Paras 12 and 12A of the abovementioned Regulation No 118 permit the government to return the schools/colleges to the previous managers. The Edwardes College was established as a private missionary educational institution by the Church Mission Society and had its own financial resources which were created through donations and fees.
Combating misinformation in the digital age in Pakistan
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Friday May 28, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged more people to turn to social media for information, but one may have to navigate around quite a bit of misinformation too.
There have been significant surges in the use of platforms like Twitter, WhatsApp, Zoom and Facebook.
In an analysis of data from February 26 to April 9, 2020, a report by Dawn suggested a 22.84% increase in desktop usage of Twitter in Pakistan. This is the initial period of the pandemic.
Twitter has attempted to reduce the instances of widespread sharing of disinformation with policies like the ‘COVID-19 misleading information policy’. But fake news still does often go undetected and accurate news posts are removed.
9 January 2021
Author: Imtiaz Gul, CRSS Islamabad
For nearly 15 years, a network comprising over a thousand mostly Indian news outlets and domains operating across the world systematically influenced international opinion against Pakistan. Unquestioned by key officials in the United States and Europe, these sources of motivated information and disinformation constituted an essential part of a pro-India group’s campaign against Pakistan.
Much mainstream commentary on Pakistan remains largely unforgiving and negatively biased. Senior state dignitaries from the United States and Europe have resonated the views espoused by websites and newspapers recently called out for spreading disinformation.
On 9 December 2020, Brussels-based fake news watchdog EU DisinfoLab blew the lid off a systematic campaign stoking adverse views on Pakistan: a concerted program under the umbrella of the shadowy Delhi-based Srivastava Group. EU DisinfoLab dug up startling revelations of a massive cross-con
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Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. (E-mail: awanzamir@yahoo.com).
A Brussels-based NGO working to fight disinformation against the European Union has unearthed a 15-year-old operation run by an Indian entity that used hundreds of fake media outlets and a dead professor s identity to target Pakistan.
The EU DisinfoLab, in its report, Indian Chronicles: deep dive into a 15-year operation targeting the EU and United Nations to serve Indian interests, characterized this as the largest network of disinformation they have uncovered so far.