KABUL: As the insurgents rise to power in war raked Afghanistan, the resistance to them in now-fallen Pangshir Valley has spawned a high volume of misinformation and the latest character is an Afghan journalist Noor Quraishi who jumped the bandwagon as he termed the ruling party lawmaker and famous TV host as a late Pakistani troop who died during Panjshir skirmishes.
In another field day on microblogging platform Twitter, netizens flocked to ridicule the red-faced Afghan journalist who peddled fake news about the involvement of the Pakistan Army troops in the Panjshir valley.
Quraishi, in a tweet, claimed that ‘Pakistani commando’ Colonel Adil was died fighting on behalf of the Taliban and he shared a picture of infamous Pakistani host Aamir Liaquat who used to be in the headlines mostly for wrong reasons.
د پاکستاني کمانډوانو لومړنی خوندیتوب کرنل عادل په پنجشیرکی د جګړې پرمهال مړ شو pic.twitter.com/DGRXwF6WrU
— Noor Quraishi (@noor_quraishii) September 6, 2021
The translation of the hilarious tweet cited “The first casualty of Pakistani commandos: Colonel Adil died during the fighting in Panjshir.”
Soon after the tweet went viral, many of the social media users and troll pages started mocking the journalist for the hilarious gaffe.
Let it be known that the recent news about Pakistan Army’s role in the Panjshir battle is peddled from BJP controlled Indian media and the Afghan social media brigade who are doing their best to defame Pakistani state institutions but are getting trolled owing to poor research and sensational reporting.
Earlier, journalists and social media users ridiculed India for spreading lies through fake claims on social media that a Pakistani fighter jet was shot down in Afghanistan’s Panjshir valley.
Some of the Indian media publications also trolled Republic TV and Zee Hindustan as they used footage from the video game and claimed that the visuals showed the PAF attacking the anti-Taliban fighters in the ongoing military conflict between fighters in the valley.
A senior official of a US-based Wilson Center think-tank Michael Kugelman also debunked Indian propaganda against Pakistan. “Some Indian TV media have used video game images instead of real footage (of which there is very little available) to depict the assault in Panjshir”, he wrote on Twitter. He said that however zany it may sound for the uninitiated, “it’s not the first time happened during the Balakot crisis too, back in 2019”.
FAKE NEWS ALERT: Indian media plays clip of a video game saying Pakistan Air Force attacked Panjshir
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