Khan has been arrested in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case, in which the former prime minister and his wife have been accused of receiving “billions of rupees from a real estate firm for legalising a laundered amount of Rs 50 billion”, Dawn reported. The former PM has been facing a clutch of cases since his ouster through a no trust vote in April last year. At present, he is facing over 140 cases related to terrorism, blasphemy, murder, violence, inciting to violence. However, he has rejected all these cases as political victimisation by the ruling alliance.
Lots of Pakistani journalists publish in Indian newspapers due to censorship in Pakistan. Just about every English language Indian newspaper has a column published by senior Pakistani journalists and press offices in every major city in Pakistan.
There's a very healthy cross-border journalism ecosystem in South Asia.
Which Indian newspaper has press offices in "every major city in Pakistan"?
> Lots of Pakistani journalists publish in Indian newspapers due to censorship in Pakistan.
Nonetheless, Indian media has consistently shown to provide either outright false news, or very exaggerated facts to suit Indian narrative. One example is :
> The researchers said they had “uncovered an entire network of coordinated UN-accredited NGOs promoting Indian interests and criticising Pakistan repeatedly. We could tie at least 10 of them directly to the Srivastava family, with several other dubious NGOs pushing the same messages.”
Trusting any content from an Indian news source about Pakistan without corroboration is entirely like trusting Russia when it's talking about the Ukraine War.
> Which Indian newspaper has press offices in "every major city in Pakistan"?
Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle, Indian Express, The Tribune, The Print, NDTV, The Wire, Scroll.in, Outlook India, Himal (technically HQed in Nepal) have all supported Freelance journalists plus the beginning few I have listed have had press desks in Islamabad/Karachi/Lahore as well. The list I created is non-exhaustive btw.
The example provided was specifically around IB creating fake webpages while misappropriating photos and names of Indian journalists. This was not done by existing Indian newspapers. In fact, Indian media would have had a massive field day parading political misinfo occurring in competing news organizations.
Btw - I do agree that a lot of Indian media orgs have a misconstrued image of Pakistan, but conversely so do similar orgs in Pakistan. Also, the Indian media market is extremely segmented based on readership.
A lot of the bad reporting about Pakistan in Indian newspapers comes from the newspapers aimed at normal citizens, nor policymakers. The type of newspapers that someone working in a Ministry reads is different from the kind that a migrant worker from Assam reads.
Also, you do realize that a significant portion of Indians can speak Punjabi/Sindhi/Pakhtu and listen+read Pakistani news channels or news radio along with Indians ones as well right?
It sounds like you might have some misconceptions about India as well tbh.
Indian reporting about Pakistan is about tamasha/entertainment now - Indian media orgs increasingly talk about China instead now and in the same manner that they used to talk about Pakistan.
Indian print media (The Indian Express is a print publication first and foremost), in my experience, has very legitimate journalism. Most of the vitriol from both sides happens on TV news, not print, and is manufactured for generating views.
It's a lot more nuanced than India hating Pakistan. Discrediting a newspaper for being Indian doesn't seem like the right approach - it's the equivalent of dismissing any and all news on Russia or China by American papers. Should the NYT or WSJ reporting on Putin and Xi be ignored for the sole idea that the US hates these countries?
https://indianexpress.com/article/pakistan/imran-khan-arrest...
More on "the Al-Qadir Trust case":
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global...