Here is how the Indian Fake News Industry processes a fake news into an international news:
Step 1: Tweet a #fakenews as #Breaking attributing it to “sources” that can of course never be verified.
Step 2: Get the entire Indian news media outlets to pick it up as a major national story to be then processed for the international media.
Step 3: Go international and publish the fake news through credible journalists.
Step 4: Push the story to Western policy makers.
Under the cover of largest democracy & secular state, #India for decades have fed the Western powers with disinformation as exposed by @DisinfoEU & @G5iO_
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The recent crisis in #Afghanistan has exposed many but none more than the Western powers. Be it human rights, academia or sports the Western hypocrisy is now well established.
"What Monday's announcement from the ECB confirming the cancellation of their tour to Pakistan sustained, was a culture of double-standards which appears to view some nations are far less important than others." @GeorgeDobell1
"Despite having asked numerous nations to put up with various hardships to ensure they could honour their own broadcast agreements, England appear unwilling or unable to reciprocate when other nations are the ones in need." @GeorgeDobell1
US took 19 days to successfully start a war in #Afghanistan & next 20 years to unsuccessfully forge peace.
Why is making war so easy while achieving peace so hard? Here are some thoughts covering both the theoretical & functional reasons [Thread]
1.Theoretical: Nations are still governed by classical Pol Sci/IR theories that are not just Eurocentric but also War Centric. Such theories continue to place "war" & "balance of power" instead of "peace" & "prosperity" as key features of nation-states making peace impossible
2. Functional: Since war features prominently in the conceptualisation of nation-states & its discourse, it has been institutionalised into the governance structures. Peace, however, has never been institutionalised & is viewed only as an abstract end product of war & violence.
Past one month I’ve come across mostly fiction & propaganda writing on #Afghanistan.
Here is my response to another such fiction writing published by Bloomberg with totally tone deaf & historical inaccuracies. [Thread] bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
1. Imagine invading a foreign country with no war plan & then occupying it for 20 years wasting 2 trillion dollars sponsoring corruption & warlords.
Then having the audacity to blame a neighbor for all your failures that advised to the contrary.
2. How many times does it take to repeat a lie for it become an established truth? This $33b dollar US aid only funded the US contractors & consultants at the expense of $150b Pakistan suffered.
Since US likes honesty, the USG owes Pakistan a good $120b if we go by the numbers.
1. Pakistan didn't have to play a duplicitous role, the US was lying itself to the teeth on gains in #Afghanistan for 20 years. The question is why the American people were lied to about Afg?
2. Backing warlords & crook regimes of Karzai & Ghani wasn't Pakistan's doing, it was all the US plan.
3. Since Oct/Nov 2001 Pakistan kept advising to the US that there was "no military solution", yet you all thought it was a winnable war. Duplicitous much?
1. Nobody in Pakistan cheered Taliban's takeover. People were only relieved to see the downfall of a crook regime that sponsored terrorism in Pakistan for over a decade.
Trying to articulate my commemoration for #September11 but at loss of words after 20 years of what followed 9/11 & especially all what happened in last 1 month.
But here are a few thoughts from a Pakistani that takes D.C. as a 2nd home & can empathise with Americans [Thread]
1. 9/11 was a great tragedy to hit the US. But what followed was an even greater tragedy that the US inflicted upon itself along with the rest of the world - the price so many had to pay without even knowing why.
The US had the options, it chose the most catastrophic one.
2. The US had all the right intentions & reasons to wage war but the way it pursued the war which along the way got hijacked by competing interests & lobbies was a turning point for the US fate in #Afghanistan.
Pakistan saw it, warned about it & was instead shunned for it.