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South China Morning Post
16-05-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Misinformation warfare intensifies in India and Pakistan as conflict rages on
As global attention remains fixated on the military hardware wielded by India and Pakistan in their ongoing conflict , a different type of warfare has been waged in the two countries on the media front. Advertisement Observers say the clash has been amplified by falsehoods from major news outlets and elsewhere from both sides, which threaten to 'erode democratic norms and increase polarisation' across the subcontinent. India's strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir last week have unleashed a wave of misinformation online, with unrelated videos claiming to be from the attacks gaining millions of views. The strikes were aimed at targeting what India calls terrorist camps in Pakistan, two weeks after a deadly attack on India-administered Kashmir. New Delhi blames Islamabad for the April 22 attack near the tourist town of Pahalgam, which caused 26 deaths. Islamabad has rejected its rival's claim. After the first round of Indian air strikes began, footage of a 2023 Israeli air strike in Gaza quickly appeared on television and social media, which was attributed to the Indian strikes. Advertisement A video claiming to show an explosion caused by a Pakistani counter-attack was found to be from an explosion at the main port of the Lebanese capital of Beirut in 2020.
South China Morning Post
13-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
India seeks deeper defence ties with Japan amid push for strategic self-reliance
India is seeking to deepen defence cooperation with Japan as both nations pursue military modernisation and aim to reduce dependence on traditional arms suppliers – a strategic alignment analysts say reflects shared regional concerns and a growing appetite for co-developing advanced technologies. Advertisement Earlier this month, both countries agreed to set up a new bilateral defence consultation framework, with Japanese media reporting that Tokyo had offered to help India develop fighter jets and tanks, including through potential exports of engines and other key components. The timing of the initiative comes as India reassesses its defence priorities following its most serious military confrontation with Pakistan in two decades – a crisis sparked by a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists on April 22. New Delhi blamed the assault on Islamabad and responded with missile strikes on what it described as 'terrorist camps' in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, prompting retaliatory attacks and bringing the two nuclear-armed neighbours to the brink of full-scale war. The stand-off ended in a fragile ceasefire over the weekend but has intensified calls within India for greater security self-reliance and enhanced deterrence capabilities. After India and Pakistan trade blows over Kashmir, will their ceasefire hold? After India and Pakistan trade blows over Kashmir, will their ceasefire hold? Although Japan is unlikely to be directly involved in any future hostilities between India and Pakistan, it could play a critical role in helping India prevent and respond to security threats, according to Dattesh Parulekar, assistant professor at Goa University's School of International and Area Studies.
Bloomberg
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Modi Says India's Reaction Is ‘New Normal' in Pakistan Relations
India will not hesitate to use force to neutralize terrorist camps in Pakistan as it draws a 'new normal' in relations with its neighbor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. The two countries have been involved in tit-for-tat military strikes after India carried out an operation against what it described as terrorist camps inside Pakistan on May 7. The action was in response to gunmen killing 26 civilians — mainly tourists — in India's Jammu and Kashmir region in April. India called the attack an act of terrorism and accused Pakistan of involvement, allegations Islamabad has denied.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Beirut blast clip misrepresented as South Asia conflict
"BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan and India are engaged in an open war and attacking each other brutally," reads part of an Indonesian-language post on X on May 7, 2025. The post features a six-second clip of a major explosion levelling buildings along a street. Similar Indonesian and English-language posts surfaced on Facebook, Instagram and Threads after India launched air strikes on May 7 targeting "terrorist camps" in Pakistan, in retaliation for an April 22 attack in the Indian-run side of disputed Kashmir that killed 26 people (archived link). New Delhi blamed the assault on Islamabad, which denies the accusation. More than 60 people were killed on both sides as the nuclear-armed rivals engaged in four days of intense fighting before US President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a truce on May 10 (archived link). A reverse image search using keyframes found the circulating clip is part of longer footage published on the YouTube channel of broadcaster CNBC International on August 2, 2021 (archived link) "August 4 marks one year on from the Beirut blast and no one has been held to account," its title reads. The August 4, 2020 explosion killed more than 220 people, injured some 6,500 and devastated swathes of Lebanon's capital (archived link). Authorities said the explosion was triggered by a fire in a warehouse where a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate fertiliser had been stored unsafely for years. Nobody has been held responsible for the blast, one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. AFP scanned Google Maps imagery of neighbourhoods near the Port of Beirut and found the video's matching location along a street called Chafaka (archived link). AFP has debunked a wave of misinformation related to the India-Pakistan conflict here.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Beirut blast clip misrepresented as South Asia conflict
"BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan and India are engaged in an open war and attacking each other brutally," reads part of an Indonesian-language post on X on May 7, 2025. The post features a six-second clip of a major explosion levelling buildings along a street. Similar Indonesian and English-language posts surfaced on Facebook, Instagram and Threads after India launched air strikes on May 7 targeting "terrorist camps" in Pakistan, in retaliation for an April 22 attack in the Indian-run side of disputed Kashmir that killed 26 people (archived link). New Delhi blamed the assault on Islamabad, which denies the accusation. More than 60 people were killed on both sides as the nuclear-armed rivals engaged in four days of intense fighting before US President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a truce on May 10 (archived link). A reverse image search using keyframes found the circulating clip is part of longer footage published on the YouTube channel of broadcaster CNBC International on August 2, 2021 (archived link) "August 4 marks one year on from the Beirut blast and no one has been held to account," its title reads. The August 4, 2020 explosion killed more than 220 people, injured some 6,500 and devastated swathes of Lebanon's capital (archived link). Authorities said the explosion was triggered by a fire in a warehouse where a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate fertiliser had been stored unsafely for years. Nobody has been held responsible for the blast, one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. AFP scanned Google Maps imagery of neighbourhoods near the Port of Beirut and found the video's matching location along a street called Chafaka (archived link). AFP has debunked a wave of misinformation related to the India-Pakistan conflict here.
