Pakistan's anti-India propaganda has a victim, its Deputy PM Ishaq Dar
Govt of India's PIB department (of Information and Broadcasting Ministry) took a pot shot:
"This fake claim was further amplified by Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar during his statement to the Senate on 15 May 2025. By endorsing a completely fabricated image and headline,
Pakistan intentionally lent official weight to a piece of digital deception," posted India's PIB on X.
In a stunning self-goal, Pakistan's Deputy PM Ishaq Dar quoted a fake headline from a digitally altered frontpage of British newspaper, 'The Daily Telegraph'. Ironically, the fake page had been promoted by the Pakistani establishment's disinformation brigade.
Adding to Dar's embarrassment, the farce was also fact-checked by the Pakistani media.
Pakistan seems to have forgotten the age-old wisdom passed through folktales in the Indian subcontinent -- dig a pit for others, and see yourself fall in it.
"auro ke liye gadda ....
Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, during a speech in the Pakistani Senate on the India-Pakistan clashes, ended up referring to a fake news report which had been circulated by the Islamabad-Rawalpindi establishment and its henchmen. (India Today)
To add insult to injury, Dar's reference to the fake report was fact-checked by the Pakistani media itself.
While praising the Pakistani military, Ishaq Dar, who is also the foreign minister, said on May 15, "Telegraph writes, Pakistan Air Force is the undisputed king of the skies."
Dar was referring to a photoshopped front page of The Daily Telegraph, the headline of which read, 'Pakistan Air Force: The undisputed king of the skies' with a photo of a JF-17 Thunder of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). The date on the masthead of the page reads May 10.
However, the original frontpage of The Daily Telegraph of May 10 had the headline -- Navy chief quits 'over affair with junior'. Pakistan or its PAF didn't feature even as a digest item on the front page of the British daily.
Since May 10, Pakistani handles have been sharing an image glorifying the PAF and even a blue-tick X handle that seemed to amp up the disinformation of Pakistan's chief military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) posted it. Since India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 and hit terror camps inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK), the Pakistani disinformation industry, headed by its very own Comical Ali, Lt Gen Chaudhry, has been on an over drive.
In media briefings too, Chaudhry and his team used digitally altered clips to spread fake news. Their propaganda overdrive was such that even some western media bought their lies.
However, little did Pakistan's Comical Ali and his digital army know that their very own Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar would fall prey to their disinformation campaign.
What more, other than India's Press Information Bureau (PIB), it was the Pakistani media that fact-checked a booby-trapped Dar.
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