Waz
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This really needs a thread of its own. After more digging around by journalists and smaller news agencies it has been established that the father is an Indian national and his son is of mixed parentage Indian/Italian.
www.thehindu.com
Now a few things we need too take note of us as Pakistanis;
1. The narrative built on social media that the attackers were Pakistani. Hundreds of thousands of Indian social media accounts on X, TikTok, Instagram went into overdrive mode, putting out information that the attackers were Pakistani, and also heaped on even more muck e.g. Pakistan produces terrorists and nothing else. Afghan nationalists accounts, although far fewer abetted this narrative.
Our social media accounts need to combat this and although we have the numbers to match up, we are still not as coordinated as the Indian nationalist accounts. We need to organise better.
2. The acceptance of Indian nationalist lies as facts. News agencies such as ABC literally have amateurs working for them, and took the narrative from social media as fact. Earlier on if you remember Indian posters here had put up snippets of articles referring to the both attackers being of Pakistani origin, and how the father was from Lahore. If you used AI to find the source of such statements it would always turn up Indian social media accounts.
Pakistanis need to contact such organisations and hold them to account for their poor fact checking.
3. The rational Pakistanis who waited for facts. I must say I am proud of you guys, and fortunately for us we made up the majority. Never give in to the popular narrative and wait for more information. Some of our own people were sending our name to the gallows even when nothing was really known. Look at the Indian media accounts, including their national news organisations, more deflection more denial.
These guys defend their stance to the end. Pakistanis need to have a sense of self respect here.
4. How much the Indian government knew. A number of Pakistani posters pointed out that they found the silence of Indian government, even state channels strange. People discussed how something didn't seem right. It was obvious they knew both attackers were of Indian origin and shows their intelligence is very good. Pakistani government officials couldn't even come out with a response and were left wondering if the dude actually did come from Lahore.
Never underestimate India, they know more than you think.
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Now a few things we need too take note of us as Pakistanis;
1. The narrative built on social media that the attackers were Pakistani. Hundreds of thousands of Indian social media accounts on X, TikTok, Instagram went into overdrive mode, putting out information that the attackers were Pakistani, and also heaped on even more muck e.g. Pakistan produces terrorists and nothing else. Afghan nationalists accounts, although far fewer abetted this narrative.
Our social media accounts need to combat this and although we have the numbers to match up, we are still not as coordinated as the Indian nationalist accounts. We need to organise better.
2. The acceptance of Indian nationalist lies as facts. News agencies such as ABC literally have amateurs working for them, and took the narrative from social media as fact. Earlier on if you remember Indian posters here had put up snippets of articles referring to the both attackers being of Pakistani origin, and how the father was from Lahore. If you used AI to find the source of such statements it would always turn up Indian social media accounts.
Pakistanis need to contact such organisations and hold them to account for their poor fact checking.
3. The rational Pakistanis who waited for facts. I must say I am proud of you guys, and fortunately for us we made up the majority. Never give in to the popular narrative and wait for more information. Some of our own people were sending our name to the gallows even when nothing was really known. Look at the Indian media accounts, including their national news organisations, more deflection more denial.
These guys defend their stance to the end. Pakistanis need to have a sense of self respect here.
4. How much the Indian government knew. A number of Pakistani posters pointed out that they found the silence of Indian government, even state channels strange. People discussed how something didn't seem right. It was obvious they knew both attackers were of Indian origin and shows their intelligence is very good. Pakistani government officials couldn't even come out with a response and were left wondering if the dude actually did come from Lahore.
Never underestimate India, they know more than you think.
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