A Counter Offensive

Unfortunately, all this goes back over decades when Pakistan lost half its part in 1971. This was due to the well-crafted Indian disinformation war launched in the form of the Mukti-Bahni Movement to exploit the existing political faultlines. The development was clearly mentioned by the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi when she proclaimed on the floor of the parliament that they had taken theirrevenge of a thousand years of slavery. However, they did not stop there and continued to the present by creating propaganda and false illusions.

Pakistan was into the FATF grey list through the machinations of India which has continuously targeted Pakistan through its fifth generation war. They creating hash tags at will and also access Pakistani online and print media through Pakistani private channel owners who have business interests in India. Through these means India is targeting Pakistan’s faultlines for regional conflicts in the form of a media war. Further, Pakistan depends on foreign satellites for broadcasting and this is how the foreign community participates in the defaming agenda.

Countering these threats would be quite a dark and treacherous road for Pakistan, as the country would have to cover distances by leaps and bounds to make up for the time lost. Initially, the Ministry of Information and Technology should be made more vibrant in terms of a fifth generation war. Young IT professionals need to be hired from all over the world to counter cross border IT onslaughts like hacker attacks on Pakistan government websites.

The security departments must check on them for their covert operations. New English channels should be launched and promoted, as English is a widely understood language around the globe. Pakistan’s diplomats should formally raise the issue at the UNSC and all Pakistan missions abroad should be tasked to sensitize the relevant governments about the sinister Indian campaign to malign Pakistan; they should also brief them on the nature of the threat the RSS and its Hindutva ideology poses to peace and security in the region.

Meanwhile, there is also a need to maintain an equal nuclear and conventional deterrent to the Indian threat, which means upgrading the Pakistani intelligence network and devising appropriate strategies to counter Indian propaganda, rather than relying on brotherhood help. Promoting national unity and harnessing the economic prowess of the country should also help a great deal in neutralizing India, an imperative which can hardly be overemphasized. Curriculums have to be modified in colleges and universities to get a major chunk of specialists ready in the coming years. Tourism facilities should be opened to the bordering areas of India to give a positive message to the world.