The #toolkit dropped by @GretaThunberg had many key players but the name of the foreign expert Pieter Friedrich was dramatic as he was the part of a true story we were working(About group which tried every possible way to unsettle India) #UnendingWar(1/17) thedisinfolab.org/the-un-ending-…
These series of events have been around everyone for long but yet major stakeholders failed to notice this shift from proxy war to info-war/psy-war
Our attempt was to try & map this network, we did expect a elaborate design but the reach & depth of the planning was shocking(2/17)
The proxy war:
The story starts from the 1980’s, where Bhajan Singh Bhinder aka Iqbal choudhary was funding a terror network for carrying out large scale violence with the help of another terrorist Lal Singh & Pakistan’s ISI. India escaped this attack,Lal Singh got arrested(3/17)
These attacks were part of a large conspiracy called K-2(#Kashmir-#Khalistan), which hatched in Lahore under patronage of Amir ul Azeem, the secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami and was supported by several others like the Uncle of present S&T minister of Pakistan @fawadchaudhry (4/17)
At the same time in the US Bhinder & his gang were involved in a major trans-national drug trafficking & a DVD privacy network. In order to fund this network they managed to take control of the most prominent Gurdwara(Fremont Gurdwara) after a bloody fight within Gurdwara (5/17)
The 2nd failed attempt in proxy war:
Bhinder was trying to procure weapon to be sent to India via Pakistan. But this quest got him in police nets in the US. An investigation by DEA Agent Tim Lum revealed that Bhinder was looking for massive fire power to be sent to India.(6/17)
The shift to info/psy war: Carrying the load failed efforts to send weapons to India and with the change of millennium Bhinder decided to change his methods and shifted his focus to info-war against India and make use of the online platform but for that he need a fresh face(7/17)
This is when Bhinder finds a young Christian Missionary Pieter Freidrich, who had a decent oratory& writing skill but was economically struggling, he was even ready to work as security guard, and hence the offer to become an ‘expert-activist’ was quite lucrative to refuse. (8/17)
Pieter came on board & found a new role as an anti-Gandhi crusader. But it was important to provide credibility to Pieter, so a number of institutions & organizations were formed in the US – prominent being Organization for Indian Minorities (OFMI)(9/17)
Img: Web of Institutions
OFMI was purportedly set up for the cause of minorities in India but had no Indian or Indian-origin minority in it. To further boost Pieter’s credibility a no. of books were published in his name through the company, Sovereign Star publishing registered by Bhinder in 2007(10/17)
The design seemed almost the replica of what was happening in proxy war except the weapons were replaced by #disinformation. However, the early attempts were not smooth, Pieter changed his name 3-4 times, writing book in various aliases and also appeared in different names(11/17)
But the modus operandi was standard: set some books published in his name, few articles in compliant news portals , create some social media avatar and start connecting with social media amplifiers.(12/17)
Bhinder-Pieter duo 1st started their tirade against Mahatma Gandhi. The objective was to malign the image of non-violence associated with India. But in order to dent India’s image it was necessary to provide an alternative narrative,so they portrayed India as ‘fascist state’13/17
Despite the elaborate planning,it was hard for them to get audience & credibility in Indian media.But Pieter managed to hook up a significant following amongst India’s major influencers. The beauty of the project is evident from the list of media & social media amplifiers 14/17
The brilliance of this operation was not merely the planning and execution- the makers also wanted to make it self-sustainable. Pieter had started a fund raising for his ‘cause’, and claimed to have raised $30K. But all this fund raising was a added bonus to credibility. (15/17)
Not surprisingly a lion’s share in OFMI & Pieter’s promotion come form #Pakistan, from Cabinet Minister to Influencers & Media.@fawadchaudhry is one of the prominent promoter, whose uncle Choudhary Sr. had played significant role in orchestrating the terror attacks in India.16/17
The OFMI & Pieter’s promoters might have been fooled by their projections –a White Expert & a US based Organization but they should have been aware about the nature & extent of info warfare ongoing against India. Their fall for this charade is an irony of epic proportion (17/17)
This is the Part 1 of our upcoming multi-part series on Info-war against India !!
Sudden spike in news about ‘bad’ Indian medicine – from US, Gambia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka - and emergence of Indian origin American ‘hero’ #DineshThakur.
Story of biggest assault on #IndianPharma, aided and abetted by Indian media, particularly, The Wire.
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In Dec 2023 Livemint claimed that the US recalled ‘bad’ Indian meds. It was a headline spin – Indian med was a fraction of US meds. But why the negative spin on Indian pharma? We were interested and did what we do. Dig.
What we found was beyond shocking!
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In July'22 news came that several children died in Gambia bcoz of India-made cough syrup. WHO issued warning & news media screamed– Indian med killed Gambian children. The news was first broken by #Retures & #AlJazeera, repeated by Indian media.
An #ISIS module was busted by the NIA, headed by Saquib Nachan. Many would not know that Saquib goes back to the 1990s with Human rights ‘activist’ Bhajan Bhinder.
A trans-national - trans-generational strategy of bleeding India by thousand cuts.
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The two ‘activists’ - #ISIS fame Saquib Nachan & #OFMI fame Bhajan started together in 1992, & have been working on a two-pronged Hybrid-Warfare against India – spanning three continents and four decades.
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On Dec 10, 2023, NIA busted an #ISIS terror module of Saqib Nachan, and while his involvement in the 2002-03 Mumbai terror blasts is well known, he was also instrumental in a foiled terror attack in July 1992, identical to the deadly 93’ blasts, a year earlier.
In a long English word salad, a quarter dozen WaPo journalists in a hit piece have tried painting us somewhere between RW & RAW (no pun intended).
To do this, they recycled 2-year-old Pakistani propaganda, making it ‘ANONYMOUS.’
We dissect the ‘exposé’.
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First, the claim of our association with Govt agencies/ RAW. The report is essentially a recycle of previous reports published by Pakistani ISPR/ Info-war machinery. The report is periodically recycled, last by known fake news peddler CJ Werleman.
Lazy Journalism!
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The only ‘upgrade’ the WaPo did was to make this Pakistani allegation as ‘anonymous’. And whatever is in addition to that is again attributed to ‘anonymous’ sources. Hence, literally, every fact claimed is ‘anonymous’. The report has more than 10 anonymous sources.
In a barely disguised revenge piece, WaPo has accused us of targeting ‘activists’ & ‘philanthropists’.
We will reply to each line in the report shortly.
Here is a question: why do WaPo’s ‘activists’ fold their shops, edit their past & disappear AFTER we expose?
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First, philanthropist #Soros
We exposed him NOT because he called for regime change in India, but because many anti-India fronts/players popped up by the Muslim Brotherhood/ Islamist Jamaat were getting funding/patronage from Soros -from #EqualityLabs to #HfHR to #DoTo.
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Rather surprising. Why would Soros fund radical Islamists?!
But it would not be surprising if you knew that Soros/ #OSF has been funding multiple #MB fronts linked to #Hamas and other terror-accused fronts.
Today we woke up to a surprise showdown with WaPo! Turned out, that Goliath is attempting a hit-piece on DisInfolab. Goliath is WaPo. Hitman is Verma, Pranshu Verma!
Trigger: Lab has exposed both Verma and WaPo, twice.
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Verma did a shoddy fan piece on #RaqibNaik and #HindutvaWatch (HW) but made NO attempt to verify the facts that:
a. HW’s backend was being managed from Pakistan.
b. Its FB page was being run from Turkey (now hidden)
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Verma also claimed that Raqib Naik founded HW. However, in his own story, he claims that someone gave the domain of HW to Naik AFTER he shifted base to the US. Some ‘anonymous activists’ must be. Then Verma forgot to square the circle.
Financial Times (FT) quoting anonymous sources reported that US thwarted an attack by India on Khalistani loudmouth Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who as per Indian media’s anonymous sources is a US Asset
But there's more to mix of Pannun/ #Khalistan-Role of UK establishment & BBC.
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Incidentally, the FT story about ‘Saving Pannun Ryan’ comes AFTER Canadian claim regarding Nijjar but the incident happened BEFORE that, or so it claimed. The article didn’t clarify why the ‘sources’ leaked it NOW.
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One such savior was BBC: about two years ago BBC did a story on a report by a UK think tank - Centre for Information Resilience (CIR). The report claimed that large-scale fake Indian handles were targeting Sikhs and farmers!