In the digital age, rumors sprint while the truth limps behind. It starts with a ping — a WhatsApp forward warning of a “blast at Karachi Airport,” or a tweet screaming about a “civil war in Balochistan.” Within moments, it’s everywhere — on Facebook timelines, Telegram groups, and family chats. Only later, when someone bothers to check, does the illusion crumble. The footage was never from Pakistan at all. It came from Yemen, or maybe Syria, years ago — stitched together with fresh captions and a familiar intent: to mislead, to divide, to stir fear.

This isn’t random rumor. It’s a coordinated campaign of disinformation, meticulously engineered to sow panic and damage Pakistan’s credibility. The digital battlefield between India and Pakistan has become one of perception, where misinformation serves as a modern weapon of influence.

The information war between India and Pakistan is as old as the partition of 1947. What began with state-controlled radio propaganda evolved through television and now social media. From Kargil to Balakot, each conflict brought with it a flood of digital manipulation, memes, and doctored news designed to claim narrative superiority.

But the scale of these operations is unprecedented. The EU DisinfoLab’s “Indian Chronicles” investigation uncovered over 750 fake media outlets across 116 countries, many linked to networks like the Srivastava Group. These networks didn’t just spread false stories — they built entire fake........

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