Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Carlotta Gall’s Venomous Propaganda

Sarah Khan

Once again Carlotta Gall has come up with repetition of her venomous propaganda against Pakistan. On 1st October, The NY Times again provided her the forum to disseminate her lethal propaganda against Pakistan by publishing her article in Opinion corner. This time again, the timing of her article is crucial. It’s published at a time when India is trying to tarnish Pakistan’s international image based on alleged support to terrorists. The same news paper, The NY Times is publishing biased stories on so called “Indian Surgical Strikes” against militants inside Pakistan. Hence, the nexus between Indian RAW, Carlotta Gall and NY Times is very much evident.

The NY Times article titled, “15 Years in the Afghan Crucible” has reworded Gall’s previous articles and took some excerpts from her book, “The Wrong Enemy” to allege Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan’s turmoil. Instead of looking into own failures, US is well known to put blame on others. Same is happening in case of Afghanistan. It is ridiculous to narrate that 100,000 US/NATO forces utilizing $500billions funds for almost fourteen years in Afghanistan failed due to alleged Pakistan’s support to militants which itself suffered heavy losses in terms of men and material in US led GWOT. In comparison to US/NATO forces Pakistan Armed Forces has achieved tremendous success against militants in North and South Waziristan Agency. The Operation Zarb e Azb has targeted almost 4000 terrorists and the recent years have seen marked decrease in terrorist incident inside Pakistan especially after strict border management at western front.

On the other hand, the situation inside Afghanistan is becoming precarious with each passing day because RAW-NDS nexus is getting strengthened at behest of CIA in Afghanistan. Whenever Pakistan tries to play a role in Afghanistan reconciliation it faces grave challenges from RAW-NDS nexus in the region. The fact of the matter is US was never interested to bring peace in Afghanistan. Throughout US/NATO stay in Afghanistan there was continuous change of policies by Obama administration. Even Iraq War was a profound failure, soon after US withdrawal, ISIS emerged in the region playing havoc to regional peace and stability. In Afghanistan same ISIS tried to emerge in the region which was given a tough time by Pakistan Armed Forces by adopting policy of ‘Zero Tolerance’.

Instead of accepting own mistakes, putting blame on others will not solve the issue. US media and journalists need to take facts into consideration before putting blame on others. The Indian lobby in US is misusing US media to create misunderstanding between Pakistan and America having relationship based on alliance and cooperation for decades. Pakistan has played a front line role as major non-NATO ally in US led war on terror. In doing so it has suffered heavy losses which are often recognized by US policymakers in their statements.

The recent article is just a repetition of her previous Indian led mantra against Pakistan. Time and again Carlotta Gall, Christine Fair and Bruce Reidel reword their writings, give it an appealing title and get is easily published in renowned dailies of USA including The NY times and Wall Street Journal. The article even do not meet the basic requirements of journalism and get it published because Indian RAW is investing heavily in US media and abovementioned journalists, paying them millions of dollars to disseminate propaganda against Pakistan. Being superpower and responsible state, US media must not fall prey to hostile Indian propaganda and must present true picture in order to maintain its standard of neutrality and unbiased approach in the field of journalism.


The writer can be reached at ardent.jingo @gmail.com

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