India’s surgical strike 2.0 drama crashes at Pakistan Box Office: International media Article

[Chakar The Great]

ISLAMABAD - India thought that it pulled off an infowar coup by pretending to have carried out a “surgical strike” against 200-300 Jaish-e-Mohammed fighters in Azad Kashmir in the early hours of 26 February, but this vote-grabbing stunt by Indian Prime Minister Modi totally backfired on him after Pakistan turned this latest Bollywood flick into a reality by defending its airspace and downing two Indian MiGs that violated the Line of Control.

READ MORE:Pakistan PM Imran Khan announces to release IAF captured pilot as a goodwill gesture
The Movie That Came To Life

The hottest Bollywood flick in the world right now is “Surgical Strike 2.0”, which is the big-budget and high-stakes sequel to its predecessor that India claims to have carried out in 2016 with no evidence either. The author wrote about this in his piece titled “’Surgical Strike 2.0’ Or Big Bollywood Spectacle? link”, which compared India’s lies about a second “surgical strike” in the early hours of 26 February to a re-election movie by Prime Minister Modi, one which he hoped would amount to an infowar coup that would simultaneously boost his own nation’s international “prestige” while denigrating Pakistan’s.


READ MORE:PM Khan takes federal cabinet into confidence, reveals new offer to India
It was predicted at the end of that piece that “Like all Bollywood productions, ‘the show must go on’, but the “surgical strike” series won’t have a happy ending for India” after Pakistan promised to retaliate link “at a time and place of its choosing”, which is exactly what happened the next day.

Pakistan downed two Indian MiGs that violated the Line of Control (LoC) and even managed to capture a pilot who was recorded on camera link as proof against India’s original fake news assertions that it didn’t suffer such a humiliating military defeat.

READ MORE:Key meeting of Pakistan Command Authority held in Islamabad
Speaking of false claims, India says that it downed a Pakistani F-16 that violated its airspace, yet just like it bragged about killing 200-300 Jaish-e-Mohammed fighters in its “surgical strike” the day earlier without presenting any evidence whatsoever that anything other than a few trees were destroyed (and even those were targeted accidentally after its jet released its payload to jettison extra weight as it fled Pakistani airspace), so too is this also fake news intended to deceive the domestic and international audiences. What actually happened on the morning of 27 February is expectedly much different than how India is portraying it.

Fake News Has Real-World Consequences

Islamabad acknowledged in an official press release that it retaliated tit-for-tat by striking non-military targets in Indian-Occupied Kashmir link in order “to demonstrate [its] right, will and capability for self defence”, not to escalate the situation. It also hinted at carrying out actual anti-terrorist “surgical strikes” against the Indian-backed terrorists link participating in the Hybrid War on CPEC link when it declared that “If India is striking at so called terrorist backers without a shred of evidence, we also retain reciprocal rights to retaliate against elements that enjoy Indian patronage while carrying out acts of terror in Pakistan .

” Had India’s elected leadership and its military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) not fancied themselves starring in a Bollywood film and took Pakistan’s words seriously, they wouldn’t have even staged “Surgical Strike 2.0” after Islamabad promised there’d be a response should that happen, but regrettably, New Delhi decided to escalate tensions even further.

Instead of letting Pakistan’s principled tit-for-tat retaliation be the end of their recent tensions, India turned up the notch by dispatching two more of its MiGs to violate the LoC and possibly stage another episode of its “surgical strike” drama, though they were predictably shot down by the Pakistani Air Force.

Displaying the maturing that a rising Great Power such as the global pivot state of Pakistan link is expected to have, Prime Minister Khan promptly went on national TV link to reiterate that his country doesn’t want to take the situation any further but that “No sovereign country can allow another country to become judge, jury and executioners” by using unverified claims such as the Pakistani state’s involvement in the Pulwama attack link to violate its airspace and stage a “surgical strike” stunt. Indiarefused to jointly investigate that “trigger” incident with Pakistan , instead choosing to unilaterally act aggressively against it.

Pakistan Is Protecting The Rules-Based International Order From India (And Its US & “Israeli” Allies)

This pattern of behavior is strongly influenced by the modus operandi of its new American and “Israeli” allies, who never have any compunction against striking whatever state they feel like, though once again, India’s Bollywood delusions deceived it. Nuclear-armed and battle-tested Pakistan isn’t anywhere in the same league as “Arab Spring”-afflicted Libya or war-torn Syria, so Modi’s fantasy of carrying out an American- and “Israeli”-like strike against it – to say nothing of an Iraqi-style “shock and awe” campaign – with impunity was a fantasy from the very beginning, though one which the Indian leadership has dangerously decided to play out in real life.

Unlike those aforementioned targeted states, however, Pakistan is strong enough to defend the principles of international law, especially sovereignty and territorial integrity, by militantly upholding the UN Charter, which is why it promptly shot down both Indian jets that tried to stage another “surgical strike” provocation.

It’s become fashionable over the past few years for world leaders to lament the demise of the so-called “rules-based international order”, yet Pakistan just proved that it’s possible to defend it if states have the political will and military capabilities to do so. Whether it’s India , “Israel”, or America, this actual “Troika of Tyranny” (unlike the Latin American one that US National Security Advisor Bolton spoke about late last year) is destabilizing South Asia, West Asia/Mideast, and the whole world, respectively, and doing more than any others to throw International Relations into chaos as they desperately try to stop the emerging Multipolar World Order link at all costs.

It shouldn’t be seen as coincidental that India is the US’ only “Major Defense Partner” link and bragged about using “Israeli” missiles link in its latest “surgical strike” stunt that it intended to indirectly destabilize the Belt & Road Initiative’s (BRI link ) CPEC linkmegaproject.

Russia’s “Balancing” Pragmatism At Its Finest

Russia expressed concern about the US’ geopolitical intentions for India earlier this week when Foreign Minister Lavrov presciently warned link against using the South Asian state to “contain China” through the “artificially imposed” “Indo-Pacific Region” concept, and Head of the Second Asia Department Zamir Kabulov (who’s also President Putin’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan link) confirmed his country’s pragmatism by “balancing” link between its traditional India partner and its newfound strategic one in Pakistan link after refusing to take sides link and reiterating that both are “friendly to Russia”.

This would have been unthinkable had Moscow believed that New Delhi was on the right geopolitical path, but it evidently places such importance on Islamabad’s role in protecting the rules-based international order which India’s American patron is trying to destroy that it decided not to take New Delhi’s side this time around, which speaks volumes if soberly analyzed by objective observers.

Concluding Thoughts

“Surgical Strike 2.0”, the latest Bollywood flick to come out of Modi’s India , was supposed to be an action-packed comedy that would highlight the “bravery” of the Indian Armed Forces as they “humiliated” Pakistan , but the movie abruptly transformed into real life after New Delhi forgot that military stunts have real-world consequences and Islamabad showed that it’s more than willing to turn this comedy into a tragedy for its main protagonists.

This “plot twist” revealed that far from being the “heroes”, the Indian Armed Forces are actually the antagonists while their opponents in the Pakistani Armed Forces are the real protagonists fighting to safeguard the principles of the UN Charter upon which the rules-based international order is based.

Usually when a movie is going as bad as this one is, it’s a good idea to walk away even if the viewer can’t forget that the experience ever happened, but Modi seems to have a morbid fascination in seeing how much worse things will get. He’s forgotten that he’s not in a flick but is the main player an ultra-risky high-stakes gamble over the fate of his entire nation.

The “surgical strike” charade was exposed as the fake news infowar that it was from the very beginning, but unless Modi wakes up and realizes the damage that this vote-grabbing stunt has inflicted on his country, Pakistan will ensure that “Surgical Strike 2.0” has the worst ending in Bollywood history.

BY: Andrew Korybko

 

[Indus Pakistan]

ISLAMABAD - India thought that it pulled off an infowar coup by pretending to have carried out a “surgical strike” against 200-300 Jaish-e-Mohammed fighters in Azad Kashmir in the early hours of 26 February, but this vote-grabbing stunt by Indian Prime Minister Modi totally backfired on him after Pakistan turned this latest Bollywood flick into a reality by defending its airspace and downing two Indian MiGs that violated the Line of Control.

READ MORE:Pakistan PM Imran Khan announces to release IAF captured pilot as a goodwill gesture
The Movie That Came To Life

The hottest Bollywood flick in the world right now is “Surgical Strike 2.0”, which is the big-budget and high-stakes sequel to its predecessor that India claims to have carried out in 2016 with no evidence either. The author wrote about this in his piece titled “’Surgical Strike 2.0’ Or Big Bollywood Spectacle? link”, which compared India’s lies about a second “surgical strike” in the early hours of 26 February to a re-election movie by Prime Minister Modi, one which he hoped would amount to an infowar coup that would simultaneously boost his own nation’s international “prestige” while denigrating Pakistan’s.


READ MORE:PM Khan takes federal cabinet into confidence, reveals new offer to India
It was predicted at the end of that piece that “Like all Bollywood productions, ‘the show must go on’, but the “surgical strike” series won’t have a happy ending for India” after Pakistan promised to retaliate link “at a time and place of its choosing”, which is exactly what happened the next day.

Pakistan downed two Indian MiGs that violated the Line of Control (LoC) and even managed to capture a pilot who was recorded on camera link as proof against India’s original fake news assertions that it didn’t suffer such a humiliating military defeat.

READ MORE:Key meeting of Pakistan Command Authority held in Islamabad
Speaking of false claims, India says that it downed a Pakistani F-16 that violated its airspace, yet just like it bragged about killing 200-300 Jaish-e-Mohammed fighters in its “surgical strike” the day earlier without presenting any evidence whatsoever that anything other than a few trees were destroyed (and even those were targeted accidentally after its jet released its payload to jettison extra weight as it fled Pakistani airspace), so too is this also fake news intended to deceive the domestic and international audiences. What actually happened on the morning of 27 February is expectedly much different than how India is portraying it.

Fake News Has Real-World Consequences

Islamabad acknowledged in an official press release that it retaliated tit-for-tat by striking non-military targets in Indian-Occupied Kashmir link in order “to demonstrate [its] right, will and capability for self defence”, not to escalate the situation. It also hinted at carrying out actual anti-terrorist “surgical strikes” against the Indian-backed terrorists link participating in the Hybrid War on CPEC link when it declared that “If India is striking at so called terrorist backers without a shred of evidence, we also retain reciprocal rights to retaliate against elements that enjoy Indian patronage while carrying out acts of terror in Pakistan .

” Had India’s elected leadership and its military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) not fancied themselves starring in a Bollywood film and took Pakistan’s words seriously, they wouldn’t have even staged “Surgical Strike 2.0” after Islamabad promised there’d be a response should that happen, but regrettably, New Delhi decided to escalate tensions even further.

Instead of letting Pakistan’s principled tit-for-tat retaliation be the end of their recent tensions, India turned up the notch by dispatching two more of its MiGs to violate the LoC and possibly stage another episode of its “surgical strike” drama, though they were predictably shot down by the Pakistani Air Force.

Displaying the maturing that a rising Great Power such as the global pivot state of Pakistan link is expected to have, Prime Minister Khan promptly went on national TV link to reiterate that his country doesn’t want to take the situation any further but that “No sovereign country can allow another country to become judge, jury and executioners” by using unverified claims such as the Pakistani state’s involvement in the Pulwama attack link to violate its airspace and stage a “surgical strike” stunt. Indiarefused to jointly investigate that “trigger” incident with Pakistan , instead choosing to unilaterally act aggressively against it.

Pakistan Is Protecting The Rules-Based International Order From India (And Its US & “Israeli” Allies)

This pattern of behavior is strongly influenced by the modus operandi of its new American and “Israeli” allies, who never have any compunction against striking whatever state they feel like, though once again, India’s Bollywood delusions deceived it. Nuclear-armed and battle-tested Pakistan isn’t anywhere in the same league as “Arab Spring”-afflicted Libya or war-torn Syria, so Modi’s fantasy of carrying out an American- and “Israeli”-like strike against it – to say nothing of an Iraqi-style “shock and awe” campaign – with impunity was a fantasy from the very beginning, though one which the Indian leadership has dangerously decided to play out in real life.

Unlike those aforementioned targeted states, however, Pakistan is strong enough to defend the principles of international law, especially sovereignty and territorial integrity, by militantly upholding the UN Charter, which is why it promptly shot down both Indian jets that tried to stage another “surgical strike” provocation.

It’s become fashionable over the past few years for world leaders to lament the demise of the so-called “rules-based international order”, yet Pakistan just proved that it’s possible to defend it if states have the political will and military capabilities to do so. Whether it’s India , “Israel”, or America, this actual “Troika of Tyranny” (unlike the Latin American one that US National Security Advisor Bolton spoke about late last year) is destabilizing South Asia, West Asia/Mideast, and the whole world, respectively, and doing more than any others to throw International Relations into chaos as they desperately try to stop the emerging Multipolar World Order link at all costs.

It shouldn’t be seen as coincidental that India is the US’ only “Major Defense Partner” link and bragged about using “Israeli” missiles link in its latest “surgical strike” stunt that it intended to indirectly destabilize the Belt & Road Initiative’s (BRI link ) CPEC linkmegaproject.

Russia’s “Balancing” Pragmatism At Its Finest

Russia expressed concern about the US’ geopolitical intentions for India earlier this week when Foreign Minister Lavrov presciently warned link against using the South Asian state to “contain China” through the “artificially imposed” “Indo-Pacific Region” concept, and Head of the Second Asia Department Zamir Kabulov (who’s also President Putin’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan link) confirmed his country’s pragmatism by “balancing” link between its traditional India partner and its newfound strategic one in Pakistan link after refusing to take sides link and reiterating that both are “friendly to Russia”.

This would have been unthinkable had Moscow believed that New Delhi was on the right geopolitical path, but it evidently places such importance on Islamabad’s role in protecting the rules-based international order which India’s American patron is trying to destroy that it decided not to take New Delhi’s side this time around, which speaks volumes if soberly analyzed by objective observers.

Concluding Thoughts

“Surgical Strike 2.0”, the latest Bollywood flick to come out of Modi’s India , was supposed to be an action-packed comedy that would highlight the “bravery” of the Indian Armed Forces as they “humiliated” Pakistan , but the movie abruptly transformed into real life after New Delhi forgot that military stunts have real-world consequences and Islamabad showed that it’s more than willing to turn this comedy into a tragedy for its main protagonists.

This “plot twist” revealed that far from being the “heroes”, the Indian Armed Forces are actually the antagonists while their opponents in the Pakistani Armed Forces are the real protagonists fighting to safeguard the principles of the UN Charter upon which the rules-based international order is based.

Usually when a movie is going as bad as this one is, it’s a good idea to walk away even if the viewer can’t forget that the experience ever happened, but Modi seems to have a morbid fascination in seeing how much worse things will get. He’s forgotten that he’s not in a flick but is the main player an ultra-risky high-stakes gamble over the fate of his entire nation.

The “surgical strike” charade was exposed as the fake news infowar that it was from the very beginning, but unless Modi wakes up and realizes the damage that this vote-grabbing stunt has inflicted on his country, Pakistan will ensure that “Surgical Strike 2.0” has the worst ending in Bollywood history.

BY: Andrew Korybko

About sums it ......

 

[ARMalik]

And this beautifully sums it - Movieland and fantasyLand India has turned its people into a bunch of actors who have no grip on reality. You know what, I would go as far as to say that the best thing to happen to Pakistan is BOLLYWOOD!! Yes, Bollywood has manage to do what Pakistan could not do, that is, it has turned this indian nation into a nation of Actors/actresses and LGBTs.

Mark my words, it will only get worse for India! There is a storm brewing which unfortunately is led by external powers. And during this storm there is going to be only nation that will get utterly destroyed, and it is India. It is not too late - India needs to follow the path of peace because it will make india stronger not weaker.

 

[Pakistani Aircraft]

The sequel is a complete flop. I want my money back.

 

[hussain0216]

Yep

The indians are in complete denial but reality has hit them

 

[krash]

This was published before Pakistan struck India down.

“Surgical Strike 2.0” Or Big Bollywood Spectacle?
Written by Andrew Korybko on 2019-02-26

India is portraying its first aerial violation of the Line of Control (LoC) in nearly half a century as another “surgical strike” against Pakistan that followed in the footsteps of the operation that it claimed to have pulled off without evidence in 2016, but in the absence of any proof to once again back up its assertion and considering that Pakistan already presented contradictory photographic evidence proving that the so-called “attack” only destroyed a couple of trees, it’s clear that this was just another big Bollywood spectacle for infowar purposes.

Facts First

India dramatically claimed to have pulled off another “surgical strike” against Pakistan in the early hours of 26 February, declaring that 200-300 members of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were killed in retaliation for the group’s involvement in the Pulwama attack. The country’s media is wildly celebrating what their government portrayed as a massive victory over Pakistan after the Indian Air Force violated the Line of Control (LoC) for the first time since the 1971 war with their neighbor and didn’t instantly trigger a larger conflict. The message being conveyed to their citizens is that India can “surgically strike” Pakistan at will without repercussions, but the actual facts of the matter state something altogether different and show that this is nothing more than a big Bollywood spectacle for infowar purposes.

Here are the facts as they objectively exist at the time of writing:

1. The Pulwama attack was the worst Indian military loss in a generation;

1. India reactively blamed the Pakistani state for involvement in the attack without presenting evidence;

1. The Indian Air Force violated the LoC for the first time since 1971;

1. Pakistan proved that only a few trees were destroyed and no infrastructure damaged or people killed;

1. Islamabad says that the Indian jets shed their payload in fright to jettison extra weight as they fled;

1. New Delhi denies that its jets were chased out of Pakistani airspace by its neighbors’;

1. India presented no evidence to back up its claims that it killed 200-300 JeM fighters;

1. and Pakistan vowed to respond to this border violation at a “time and place of its choosing”.

Modi’s Motivations

Accepting the publicly verifiable veracity of the abovementioned facts, it’s possible to piece together the motivations that Indian Prime Minister Modi had for ordering this stunt. The first and most obvious one that comes to mind is that it was a re-election ploy to ensure his victory ahead of this May’s polls, seeing as how it temporarily appeased his party’s chest-thumping ultra-jingoist base that’s been braying for blood even prior to the Pulwama attack. He’s able to present this as an “unprecedented foreign policy success” against his countrymen’s hated neighbor and show that he’s “tough on terror”. Correspondingly, he can continue to contrast his two “surgical strikes” with the lack of a “kinetic response” to the 2008 Mumbai attack that the Congress opposition blamed on Pakistan when it was in power at the time.

In parallel with this, Modi also wants to shape international perceptions about his country and Pakistan. Per the first-mentioned, he wants it to appear like a “rising military superpower” capable of carrying out “surgical strikes” against another nuclear-armed state without triggering World War III, something that neither the US nor Russia have ever claimed to do against one another even during the height of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Pertaining to Pakistan, Modi wants to paint the country as a “state sponsor of terrorism” that’s “militarily weak” and perennially on the edge of “sliding into instability” because it “can’t control its own borders”. These weaponized narratives are supposed to deter states and private citizens alike from investing in the globally game-changing China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which India opposes on the basis of its maximalist claims to the Kashmir Conflict.

Strategic Context

All of this is occurring in a specific strategic context. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov warned earlier this week against India being used by the US to “contain” China through what he said is the “artificially imposed” concept of the “Indo-Pacific Region”. Seeing as how CPEC is the Belt & Road Initiative’s (BRI) flagship project, the latter of which is the engine of the emerging Multipolar World Order, it makes sense why India and its American ally are jointly waging a Hybrid War on CPECthrough interconnected terrorist and infowar aggression, especially in the strategically located Pakistani province of Balochistan where the megaproject’s terminal port of Gwadar is based. About that aspect of this unconventional conflict, India recently succeeded in manipulating Iran into blaming Pakistan for the spillover effect of this campaign and even getting Tehran to imply the threat of its own cross-border strike last week.

Bearing this backdrop in mind, India’s latest claim to have carried out its second “surgical strike” against Pakistan in less than three years correlates perfectly with its desire to destabilize its neighbor and the CPEC project that it hosts on behalf of its new American patron in the larger context of the US’ New Cold War competition against China. Neither “surgical strike” accomplished anything of military significance because both were intended from the get-go to be infowar provocations that would negatively shape international perceptions about Pakistan and scare off foreign investment in CPEC, which could have in turn indirectly led to setbacks for China’s grand strategy if they were successful. The latest one, however, saw India dangerously violating the LoC for the first time in almost half a century, which it may have partially done in an attempt to inspire Iran to do something similar.

Debunking The Bollywood Bluster

Three simple points debunk the Bollywood bluster behind India’s false claims of “victory”:

1. The absence of any evidence implicating Pakistani state institutions for involvement in the Pulwama attack means that India’s “surgical strike” claim is technically an aggressive violation of international law, which is counterproductive for its desired soft power gains.

1. The absence of any evidence proving that 200-300 JeM members were killed means that India’s “surgical strike” claim is a lie and intended to cover up its military failure of being too fearful to attack Pakistan while inside of its territory, which is counterproductive for its desired military reputation.

1. In view of the aforementioned and the fact that Pakistan is unfazed by this “surgical strike” claim and wasn’t destabilized by it in the least, India’s stunt actually bolstered its rival’s international standing and counterproductively proved why the global pivot state is more than suitable for foreign investment.

Concluding Thoughts

Far from being the “devastating blow” against Pakistan that many in both the Mainstream and Alternative Medias are presenting it as, India’s latest claims of a “surgical strike” backfired against it after the absence of any evidence confirming the attack or even the supposed “justification” for it (i.e. that Pakistani state institutions were involved in the Pulwama attack) exposed this stunt as being nothing more than a big Bollywood spectacle for infowar purposes. This entire operation failed with every one of its intended objectives because the easily obtainable truth actually harms India’s soft power and military reputation instead of Pakistan’s, Iran wisely didn’t emulate India’s example, and CPEC has yet to be destabilized by New Delhi’s hand at its American ally’s behest. Like all Bollywood productions, “the show must go on”, but the “surgical strike” series won’t have a happy ending for India.

 

[krash]

Pakistan Didn’t Violate The Geneva Convention, It Confirmed Its Adherence To It
Written by Andrew Korybko on 2019-02-28

After suffering a humiliating military defeat on the morning of 27 February when Pakistan shot down two of its MiGs that violated the country’s airspace and even captured one of its pilots, India went wild trying to distract its population by switching the subject of discussion to allegations that Islamabad violated the Geneva Convention of 1949 by airing footage of the captured pilot, but in reality Pakistan actually confirmed its adherence to this cornerstone of international law and simultaneously contributed to de-escalating the worst military crisis with its nuclear-armed neighbor since their 1971 war almost half a century ago.

A Desperate Distraction To Cover Up A Military Defeat

“Pakistan Turned The Latest Bollywood ‘Surgical Strike’ Flick Into Reality” on the morning of 27 February after it upheld the rules-based international order centered on the UN Charter’s principles about territorial integrity, sovereignty, and the right to defend oneself against aggression when it shot down two Indian MiGs that violated its airspace and even captured one of the pilots. This came as a total shock for the Mainstream Media-indoctrinated Indian masses who had mostly been convinced up until that point that Prime Minister Modi had “succeeded” in “putting Pakistan in its place” after “surgically striking” it on the unsubstantiated pretext that Islamabad was involved in the Pulwama attack. As the clichéd saying goes, “the truth hurts”, and the proverbial “bloody nose” that Pakistan gave India risked exposing the latter’s government-driven narrative as nothing more than pre-election propaganda for the incumbent BJP, which is why the state swiftly moved to distract the population as soon as possible.

Instead of taking responsibility for bringing the two nuclear-armed neighbors closer to all-out hostilities since any time after their 1971 war almost half a century ago and accepting the peacemaking overtures that Pakistani Prime Minister Khan maturely extended to his counterpart from a position of strength, Indian media obsessed over spinning video footage of their captured pilot as an alleged violation of the Geneva Convention of 1949. According to their weaponized narrative, Pakistan broke its commitment to this international pact by releasing footage of the captive, which Indian commentators claim was in contravention to Article 13’s clause specifically mandating that “prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity.” While it’s debatable whether the pilot is actually a true “prisoner of war” or not, the Director General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations confirmedthat he’ll be “treated as per norms of military ethics”.

See It With Your Own Eyes

The problem, Indian pundits say, is that the footage of the captured pilot being saved from a local mob by the military, shown safely in custody, and then happily drinking tea supposedly made him a so-called “public curiosity” and is “proof” that Pakistan violated the Geneva Convention. Nothing could be further from the truth, however, since those three videos actually showed that the captured pilot is being treated in full accordance with the Geneva Convention and therefore contributed to de-escalating tensions with India. The Pakistani Armed Forces literally saved his life by rescuing him from a local mob, showing the world their principled commitment to international law that they were willing to also risk their own lives and potentially – if the situation came to do – also use non-lethal force or worse against their own enraged countrymen to ensure the safety of the Indian pilot. That says a lot about Pakistan’s military professionalism and was a proud moment for the country.

The second video showing the captured pilot standing while in custody was evidently meant to reassure the world that the prisoner was successfully brought to a safe space where he was no longer at risk of harm. This was important to signal because Pakistan preemptively thwarted a dangerous infowar escalation from the Indian side by doing this and confirming that the pilot was not only still alive, but in good enough of a condition to stand and say a few words. It’s very likely that had that video not come out as soon as it did, India – which “has more fake news than anywhere else in the world”, as confirmed by a recently released independent report by Microsoft – might have started disseminating fake news and possibly even edited video clips claiming to “prove” that he was “killed” and his body “mutilated” in order to “justify” forthcoming military moves that would have unquestionably escalated the situation.

It’s possibly because of how well he knows his countrymen’s mindset that the Indian pilot voluntarily chose to go on video and send an important peacemaking message to them and the rest of the world, all while calmly sipping tea that his Pakistani captors generously gave him. He said that “I would like to put this on record, and I will not change my statement if I go back to my country also. The officers of the Pakistani Army have looked after me very well. They are thorough gentlemen, starting from the captain who rescued me from the mob, and from the soldiers, and thereafter the officers of the unit which I was taken. This is what I would expect my army to behave as, and I’m very impressed by the Pakistani Army.” Had one expected this footage to be aired far and wide by Indian media, they’d be mistaken, since it’s actually being censored by the state.

State Censorship In The Self-Professed “World’s Largest Democracy”

“The Economic Times” reported that Indian security officials “said on Wednesday that the videos of the captured Indian Air Force pilot were being released on the internet as part of a psychological operation against India and netizens should desist from sharing them on social media”, adding that “It is aimed to demoralise the forces and people.” Because of this, media outlets have refused to share those three videos with their audiences, intending instead to continue fanning the flames of war as part of Modi’s re-election campaign by alleging that the captured pilot is being “mistreated” and that the Indian Armed Forces must promptly take revenge. As most state-driven policies of censorship have a tendency for doing, however, this is backfiring on India because all international media outlets of prominence have reported on that footage and it’s since gone viral on social media, so regular Indians can see that their government’s narrative about Pakistan’s ”mistreatment” of their pilot is false.

It’s precisely because the pilot praised the Pakistani Army and proved that his captors even risked their lives in order to save his own that India imposed a strict policy of censorship in a frantic bid to prevent its warmongering rhetoric from falling apart at the seams, hence the latest fake news narrative that Pakistan supposedly violated the Geneva Convention by releasing footage of the prisoner. New Delhi suffered such a humiliating military defeat on 27 February that it will do anything to distract its people from what happened and desperately try to gin up international support against Pakistan on the alleged basis that Islamabad brazenly violated international law despite the Pakistani state actually upholding the UN Charter by protecting its sovereign airspace from aggressive foreign intrusion. As for the weaponized infowar narrative that Pakistan “paraded” him around as a “public curiosity”, the videos actually prove that the country wanted to pre-emptively counter India’s expected fake news campaign about the pilot’s treatment and fate.

Concluding Thoughts

Yet another Indian infowar narrative is falling apart after the facts once again reveal that the country is pumping out fake news in order to discredit Pakistan and “justify” military aggression against it in support of Modi’s re-election campaign. Not only has no single shred of evidence been publicly presented proving that the Pakistani state was involved in the Pulwama attack nor has anything emerged to confirm India’s incredulous claims that its “surgical strike” killed 200-300 Jaish-e-Mohammed fighters, but the facts actually confirm the opposite, namely that Pakistan had nothing to do with Pulwama and that India’s highly publicized “strike” wasn’t even what it was portrayed as being and certainly didn’t kill a single soul. Likewise, India’s assertion that Pakistan violated the Geneva Convention is also disproven by the video evidence that its neighbor presented but which has been censored from Indian media on “national security” grounds, all in order to keep a “politically convenient” fake news narrative alive ahead of the country’s heated elections.

 

[rcrmj]

anything associated with India are either lies, fair tales or myths, be its people, the country, history or culture````basically its a web of fantacy and delusion. Just dont take their stuff too seriously, that is a honest advice