Painting the lies as truth

It is strange that different segments engaged in dissemination of information in India including independent opinion-making circles are not questioning the credibility of information at any stage particularly that relates to Pakistan in general and RAW agent Kulbushan Jadhav in particular. 

Instead, all these segments including the Indian literati and intelligentsia some segments of which media had once earned the reputation of exposing the lies relied upon by the oppressor forces and authoritarian state setups, are now sparing no moments to jointly build up anti-Pakistan propaganda and psy war in such a manner that the lies too start appearing to be truth as in the case of RAW agent Kulbushan Jadhav. 

Quite brazenly and certainly for the purpose of confounding the Jadhav affair, a totally misquoted and distorted statement of one of Pakistan’s defence analysts Lt-Gen Amjad Shoaib (retd) had been put in wide circulation by design till recently just in order to paint the Jadhav’s apprehension process as having been undertaken on the Iranian soil. 

This is altogether contrary to actual facts. And, moreover, Pakistan’s former armed forces senior, Lt-Gen Amjad Shoaib (retd) has also unequivocally denied the claims made in a section of Indian media that he (Pakistan’s ex-serviceman) had stated that Jadhav had been arrested from Iran. 

Had it happened so, the Iranian authorities would have raised an issue about the violation of their sovereignty over interference by the forces of other countries, as also clarified by the general who has further stated that the video attributed to him and circulated on the Indian media was doctored and that the outlet did not contact him for any verification or for ascertainment of the factual position. 

Of late, it has been revealed from the comparison between original statements of the former general and the doctored clip used by India as a tool of defence in International Court of Justice (that Jadhav was not arrested from Pakistani soil), that certain words were cunningly deleted from the original recorded statement following which the ‘doctored’ clip was circulated to further the RAW agenda vis-a-vis Pakistan as well as Pakistan’s legally justified action against Kulbushan Jadhav, who had remained engaged in sabotage activities within Pakistan’s territorial limits. 

According to the former general, “They (Indian Army) do such disgraceful things and don’t understand that these tactics won’t help them,” adding that the unedited versions of his interviews with the Pakistani media were readily available on the internet which establish only one thing that he, time and again, had said that Jadhav was apprehended inside Pakistan. 

Even earlier, one such statement by the same Pakistani armed forces’ veteran was doctored intentionally to give it a wrong meaning. It was his statement on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The general had stated that only China would benefit from CPEC if Pakistan didn’t do its homework properly. On the contrary, India’s opinion-making circles made a mountain out of the molehill from this statement and circulated only one fragmented part of this statement by propagating that a prominent defence analyst of Pakistan says that only ‘China would benefit from CPEC’.