New Delhi: India’s Operation Sindoor gave a deadly blow to Pakistan, demolished its terror infrastructure and also left its political leadership humiliated and exposed before the world.
Defeated on the battlefield, it opened a new front against India and desperately attempted to sell false narratives about India’s ‘defeat’, the fall of its fighter jets, to project itself as a ‘winner’ in the digital space. A couple of its friendly nations, allegedly Turkey and China, also helped it in peddling this fabricated narrative by tacit or direct means.
As India struck its popular airstrip and airbases, Pakistan started leveraging its access to Western media to push anti-India propaganda.
On May 8, DG ISPR peddled its first official lie as it claimed that the Pakistan Army didn't attack civilian areas in Amritsar and accused India of 'false flag'. The very next day, they went on chest-thumping, celebrating Pakistan's attack in Amritsar.
DG ISPR, addressing the media, played a doctored clip of Wing Commander Vyomika Singh 'admitting' to Pakistan's attack, however, the fact was that the Pakistani Army’s spokesperson conveniently cut out a part from the video, where the officer was explaining how Pakistan targeted civilian areas.
On May 1, 2025, Pakistan’s ISPR ran a disinformation campaign by circulating 'classified RAW documents' to target India. On May 11, DGISPR used a 2-year-old image from 2023 to falsely show their Navy's preparedness against India.
DGISPR also manipulated a news clip from a reputed Indian news channel and claimed that an Indian airfield was destroyed, however, the original footage was about Pakistan's airfield being hit by Indian forces.
While the Pakistani establishment, backed by influencers, ran a cocktail of misinformation, it was the DG ISPR which officially propagated the fake propaganda.
In another blatant fabrication, DG ISPR showed an edited TV news clip and falsely claimed that Indian media had admitted to the destruction of their own airbases. Pakistan also invented a fake CNN graphic showing casualty statistics, which the US-based channel never showed.
