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Last month, the EU Disinfo Labs released \u2018Indian Chronicles\u2019, an in-depth investigation and expose of a fifteen year-long anti-Pakistan influence operation run by a company called the Srivastava Group and amplified by an Indian news agency called Asian News International or ANI.<\/p>\n
The details of the disinformation campaign have been a major revelation for anyone around the world invested in how public discourse is shaped. International coverage of the investigation has been serious and studied.<\/p>\n
Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the chief of the military’s media wing, said that India is engaged in a massive campaign of ‘fifth-generation warfare’ to obstruct Pakistan\u2019s road to prosperity mainly through targeting the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Pakistan\u2019s international image.<\/p>\n
Appearing in a wide-ranging interview on\u00a0Global Village Space<\/em>, he termed misinformation campaigns against Pakistan on social media as a “major challenge”, but said the country was countering these through transparency and putting out credible information.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, it\u2019s a major onslaught, it\u2019s a major part of the fifth-generation warfare. Pakistan is being subjected to [\u2026] hybrid applications in a massive way and we are aware of that,\u201d the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) director-general said.<\/p>\n When prompted to cite a specific incident of such an attempt, he mentioned the recent\u00a0explosion\u00a0in a Karachi building which was framed as a “civil war” in India as an example of irresponsible reporting. \u201cIn doing so, the Indian media has lost its credibility to quite an extent and the whole world is recognising that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He said in his understanding, fifth-generation warfare was the Indian state using all elements of its national power to systemically focus on and attempt to destabilise certain domains in Pakistan. He listed these domains as Pakistan\u2019s economy, information system, army and international image, for which he cited the example of Indian lobbying in the Financial Action Task Force meetings to discredit Pakistan.<\/p>\n When asked about how such attempts were countered, Maj Gen Iftikhar stated: \u201cBest way to handle this is transparency, [\u2026] not leaving information voids and [\u2026] passing on credible information.\u201d<\/p>\n He also brought up Pakistan\u2019s practical action in the international arena to bring attention to Indian designs by submitting a dossier on Indian state-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan to the United Nations Secretary General. According to Maj Gen Iftikhar, the dossier and its proofs had been taken seriously at the international level and objectively analysed which had vindicated Pakistan\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n The ISPR chief also highlighted that Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s military diplomacy and forays to reach out to the armies of the region and beyond had yielded considerable advantages for Pakistan. Note was made of success in this regard with China, Russia and the Gulf states.<\/p>\n \u201cThe outreach whether for training or other exchanges or defence equipment has been very positive,\u201d Maj Gen Iftikhar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last month, the EU Disinfo Labs released \u2018Indian Chronicles\u2019, an in-depth investigation and expose of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-picks"],"yoast_head":"\n