Indian media propaganda against Pakistan with respect to a viral photo of a grave with iron grille was exposed when it was revealed that the photo was from the Indian Hyderabad, not Pakistan as claimed by the Indian media.
The Indian media is linking the viral image of a padlocked grave to rising necrophilia cases in Pakistan, claiming that the image was an example of how mother s lock their daudghters’ graves in Pakistan in order to prevent rape.
A news agency “ANI Digital” based in India, published an article titled ‘Pakistani parents lock daughters’ graves to avoid rape with the image that got viral, was later used by several major media outlets of India to propagate the false report.
The Times of India, TOI, NDTV, Mirror Now, ThePrint, India Today, Wion, IndiaTV, Times Now, DNA India, OpIndia Hindi, News24, ABP News, Amar Ujala, News18, Firstpost and Jagran were among those media outlets which used the same image in their respective reports.
Harris Sultan, who is the author of the book ‘The Curse of God – Why I Left Islam’, tweeted the same image and claimed that it was clicked in Pakistan”.
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, tweeted the image with the caption ‘Pakistan: Parents padlock graves of deceased daughters to prevent necrophilia’.—APP
