Pakistan lashed out on Friday after the US designated The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a terrorist organisation, resorting to its usual script of deflecting blame and raking up the Kashmir issue. Washington’s terror tag for TRF comes weeks after it claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam massacre, in which…
South Korea on Wednesday switched off loudspeakers that had been broadcasting K-pop songs, news and other propaganda into North Korea for the past year — one of the first concrete steps taken by the newly elected leader, Lee Jae-myung, to improve inter-Korean ties. Mr. Lee ordered his military to turn off the high-powered loudspeakers on…
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. 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…
NEW DELHI: The central government has fact checked several Pakistani news on Operation Sindoor launched by the Indian Armed Forces in an effort to counter terrorism after the Pahalgam attack.The Press Information Bureau‘s fact check unit cautioned against “dubious content” being circulated on social media and termed it “Pakistan sponsored propaganda”.“In the coming days your…
Following India’s missile strikes under ‘Operation Sindoor’, Pakistan has launched a widespread disinformation campaign in an attempt to regain control of the narrative through digital manipulation and unverified claims. What began as a targeted military operation by the Indian Armed Forces has quickly devolved into a chaotic online propaganda war, largely fuelled by pro-Pakistan social…
As Buchanan saw it, the great struggle of the 21st century wasn’t a geopolitical battle between East and West, or freedom and oppression. It was a cultural battle between traditionalists and the secular, multicultural, global elite. In this context, America’s crusade to spread democracy was bound to lead it astray. “If communism was the god…
Taiwan on Tuesday deported a Chinese woman back to her country after she posted praise online for Beijing’s ambitions to conquer the self-governing island democracy by force. China, which considers the island a wayward province that split from it amid the civil war in 1949, has been vastly expanding its navy and missile force with…
The ideal worker at the Chinese chemical manufacturer, according to the internal memo, is hardworking, virtuous and loyal. And — perhaps most important — willing to have children for the good of the country. That was the message that the company, Shandong Shuntian Chemical Group, sent to unmarried employees recently, in a notice that spread…
The Trump administration is targeting government officials who had been flagging foreign interference in U.S. elections, despite continuing concerns that adversaries are stoking political and social divisions by spreading propaganda and disinformation online, current and former government officials said. The administration has already reassigned several dozen officials working on the issue at the Federal Bureau…
The video falsely claiming that the United States Agency for International Development paid Ben Stiller, Angelina Jolie and other actors millions of dollars to travel to Ukraine appeared to be a clip from E!News, though it never appeared on the entertainment channel. In fact, the video first surfaced on X in a post from an…