Muzaffarabad (POJK), May 5 (NVI) While escalating tensions with India, Pakistan has resorted to a farcical and misleading propaganda war, for which it is trying to use some international media outlets besides the domestic ones.
As part of such a stunt, Information Minister Ataullah Tarar today took a team of media persons to select places of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), which he claimed were going to be targeted by India.
He claimed to those media persons, on whatever basis, that India was viewing these venues as terrorist training camps, which could be attacked.
The media delegation, which was ferried to and fro in a military helicopter, was taken to Gojra Charota and Bela Noorshah.
Locals said the media persons were deliberately taken to such areas where there are no terrorist training camps and are inhabited mostly by Shias, who resent Pakistan and violence.
“Terrorist training camps openly operate in PoJK. But the media persons were not taken to those places by the Pakistani Information Minister. Those places were not shown to the media persons,” a local told NVI.
“The media persons were taken to normal civilian areas, just to claim there was no wrong happening in POJK,” he said.
The tour was clearly a propaganda stunt aimed at misleading the international community besides the Pakistani public, since in this age, satellites are clearly able to identify and scan the places where terror training camps are functional in POJK since decades under direct patronage of the Pakistani military.
If the Pakistan government were really serious, it would let the international media persons freely roam across POJK to find for themselves whether terror training camps exist or not. It would conduct a tour of caged birds. (NVI)
