PAK INTENSIFIES BLACK PROPAGANDA AGAINST INDIA

Pakistan will highlight internationally ‘India’s own fault-lines in their alienated Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Dalits as well as the Maoist insurgency’.

The Pakistan government is working to launch an all out “soft” war against India by hiring international lobbyists, strategic communication firms and journalists to end its isolation internationally and change its negative image to a positive, particularly in the aftermath of the Uri incident.

This week, the Pakistan Senate adopted a policy guideline report card prepared by a 13-member senate committee, “First Report Committee of the Whole”, which has given guidelines to the Pakistan government on ways to isolate India at the international level.

The 22-policy guidelines report, titled “Policy guidelines in view of the latest situation developing between India and Pakistan” has called for highlighting “India’s own fault-lines in their alienated Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Dalits as well as the growing Maoist insurgency”. It has also called for reaching out to “those segments of Indian public opinion which are opposed to Modi’s extremism and his anti-Pakistan policies, includ- ing political parties, media, civil society organisations and human rights groups”.

The report advises that “A Media Coordination Committee (MCC) be constituted including selected journalists plus representatives of the Foreign Office, Ministry of Information, parliament and intelligence to prepare fact sheets and a counter-propaganda campaign against India and to design and promote a media strategy for continually highlighting the Kashmiri freedom struggle.” It also calls for “international conference on Kashmir” to “be organized supported and amplified.”

The report adds, “There should be periodical/ regular special briefings for the Foreign Media and the so-