Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that the revelations by DisinfoEU on the widespread Indian network of subversive activities vindicates Pakistan’s position and exposes its detractors.
In a series of tweets, the prime minister said that Pakistan has consistently drawn attention of international community to India’s subversive activities to undermine democracies in the region and export/ fund extremism through structures of fake news organisations and “think tanks”.
Imran Khan went on to say that recently government of Pakistan provided dossier to United Nations of India s state terrorism in Pakistan.
He further said that the international community needs to take notice of a rogue Indian regime that now threatens the stability of the global system.
Over 750 Indian backed websites spread across 119 countries have been operating to undermine Pakistan since the last 15 years within the European Union and the United Nations. An investigative research by EU DisinfoLab showed on Wednesday.
EU DisinfoLab’s investigation, called the Indian Chronicles, revealed that the Srivastava Group launched and backed the operation while Indian new agency ANI boosted it.
The campaign started in 2005 and still continues to operate. New Delhi wants to use this network to discredit countries in conflict with it with a specific focus on Pakistan and to an extent on neighbouring China.
The report highlighted that the operation’s long-term objectives was to promote content against Pakistan and China, and consolidate India’s power at international forums such as the EU and UN.
According to EU DisinfoLab the project supports minorities, human rights NGOs, and think-tanks. It added that the project also gives the impression that the minority groups in Pakistan and China have institutional support from European institutions.
At the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, the operation was used to arranges side-events and demonstrations in support of minority rights, impersonate extinguished UN-accredited NGOs and use speaking slots reserved to various NGOs whose original missions seem unrelated.
The investigation showed that fake news was created in Brussels, Geneva and across the world , repackaged and disseminated via ANI and obscure local media networks to at least in 97 countries leading to a multiplication in the online negative content about countries in conflict with India.
