This is an Indian conspiracy which was hatched by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and anti Taliban forces to make Pakistan a scapegoat. An Indian media outlet, run by a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served as Minister of State for External Affairs between July 2016 and October 2018 under Narendra Modi, apparently knew about the "security threat" to the New Zealand cricket team almost a month before it pulled out of the tour, Investigation report of South Punjab News revealed.
It is fact that the tour of New Zealand cricket team was cancelled under an international 'conspiracy' and Chief Security Officer of the team was reportedly playing in the hands of hidden conspirators who were highly terrified with Pakistan.
Sunday Guardian Live, owned by Mobasher Jawed Akbar aka MJ Akbar, ran a story titled ‘New Zealand cricket team may face terror attack in Pakistan’ on August 21, claiming that the New Zealand cricket team's tour of Pakistan was under "a terror threat with an imminent possibility of the touring cricketers being attacked by one of the many terror groups active in the volatile region."
It quoted banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) former spokesperson Ehsan Ullah Ehsan as saying that ISIS set-up in Pakistan was engaged in preparing for the attack on New Zealand players.
Sources said that Team players believed to have received phone calls from India under a well planned plot one day before the match.
The report is written by a journalist named Abhinandan Mishra, who is considered a mouthpiece for India's security establishment. Quoting "sources" Mishra, on January 18, 2020, reported that Ehsan had escaped from the custody of Pakistan security agencies.
The news was confirmed by the government only a month after, raising eyebrows over the "sources" of the Indian journalist. A close inspection of his stories revealed that most of them were based on unnamed "sources" and were against Pakistan, its army and security institutions.
Pakistani officials have been saying that India has a clear policy against the country, in which disinformation and destabilisation are key components.
Researchers for Brussels-based EU DisinfoLab, in a 2019 study reported at least 265 fake local news websites, in more than 65 countries, working to sway public perceptions against Pakistan (and China).
These sites are managed by Indian influence networks and target international institutions and elected representatives of foreign governments. By 2020, these fake news websites — like OpIndia and Postcard News, had proliferated to 750 across 116 countries. The network included many dubious think tanks and NGOs and had continued for some 15 years.
A BBC report (titled “Indian Chronicles”) has traced many of these fake news websites to an Indian company, Srivastava Group (SG), lobbying for anti-Pakistan efforts in Europe. Its modus operandi consisted of copying syndicated news content from other media outlets, planting opinion pieces and stories critical of Pakistan mainly through NGOs linked to their network.
The government has decided to expose the nefarious designs against Pakistan and will present its analysis with the help of data.
"We will expose everything with data and tell the world about it. We will present our point of view on national as well as international media," he added.
Speaking on the occasion, the information minister said that 150,000 tweets came from India alone on August 14, 2020, with #BalochistanSolidarityDay hashtag.
He said that Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) created 150 trends against Pakistan and they were supported by India. "A massive social media campaign is underway against Pakistan," he added.
Fawad said that many Wikipedia pages were also being edited by Indians to spread disinformation against Pakistan. "We discovered that 845 websites were created for spreading misinformation against Pakistan... these websites have closer ties with Indian news agency ."
