New Delhi:
The New York Occasions has been pulled up by the US authorities for its reportage of the fear assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, by which 26 individuals, together with a overseas nationwide had been shot lifeless after being requested to show their allegiance to Islam.
The assault, for which a Pakistan-based terror group The Resistance Entrance – an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba – claimed duty, was reported by The New York Occasions as a “militant” assault. An introduction to the report additionally mentioned that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who referred to as the “capturing” a “terror assault”.
NYT CALLED OUT OVER TERROR REPORTAGE
The Overseas Affairs Committee of the USA authorities took to social media to publicly name out The New York Occasions article over its information report, describing it as being “faraway from actuality”. The NYT headline learn ‘At Least 24 Vacationers Gunned Down by Militants in Kashmir’.
“This was a terrorist assault, plain and easy,” famous the US authorities, including that “Whether or not it is India or Israel, with regards to terrorism, the NYT is faraway from actuality.”
The put up additionally shared a photograph with the correction made on NYT’s behalf, saying, “Hey, NYT, we mounted it for you.”
Hey, @nytimes we mounted it for you. This was a TERRORIST ATTACK plain and easy.
Whether or not it is India or Israel, with regards to TERRORISM the NYT is faraway from actuality. pic.twitter.com/7PefEKMtdq
— Home Overseas Affairs Committee Majority (@HouseForeignGOP) April 23, 2025
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MILITANCY AND TERRORISM
Militancy often refers to an armed revolt from inside a State with a view to obtain a political or social final result, whereas terrorism has an exterior context, the place a calculated use of violence creates a local weather of concern in a selected geography with a view to wage asymmetrical warfare in opposition to a overseas nation to destabilize the area in direction of a bigger intent or goal.
India, in a press release on Wednesday, mentioned {that a} top-level assembly on safety chaired by the prime minister famous that “Within the briefing to the Cupboard Committee on Safety, the cross-border linkages of the terrorist assault had been introduced out. It was famous that this assault got here within the wake of the profitable holding of elections within the Union Territory and its regular progress in direction of financial progress and growth.”
‘DOUBLE-STANDARDS’
The Lashkar-e-Taiba or LeT, from which its shadow outfit The Resistance Entrance stems, is a UN-designated terrorist organisation, which makes its terror credentials recognised globally. But, a big swathe of the western media, which President Trump refers to as “legacy media”, typically report incidents of terror as “shootings” or “militant” incidents, based on analysts.
Pakistan has, for many years, carried out “cross-border terrorism” in opposition to India and claimed it to be the act of “non-State actors” – a traditional case of proxy warfare. India has on quite a few events shared proof with Pakistan about terrorists coming from areas underneath its unlawful occupation and management, however Islamabad has by no means cooperated with New Delhi.
Analysts have typically pinpointed the “double-standards” within the western media’s protection of Kashmir. Whereas a lot of the “legacy media” within the West report Russia’s strikes in Ukraine as “an invasion”, the identical media stories Kashmir as a “dispute” and never Pakistan’s invasion of Indian territory.
THE INVASION OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR
In 1947, throughout Partition of India, two nations had been shaped – India, which selected to stay secular, and Pakistan, which was created on the ideology of the Two-Nation Principle – which demanded a separate nation for Muslims. Tens of tens of millions of Muslims had rejected the thought of Pakistan and its founder Jinnah, and selected to remain in a secular India. However, by then, the traces had been drawn.
Pakistan thereby grew to become the primary nation on the earth to be shaped on the idea not of a standard language or ethnicity, however on that of faith.
On the time of Independence, the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, which incorporates the Northern Areas – now referred to as Gilgit-Baltistan – joined the Union of India by signing the instrument of accession. However Pakistan, which was shaped on the ideology of the two-nation concept claimed that the individuals of Jammu and Kashmir – a Muslim-majority state, ought to ‘ideally’ belong to Pakistan due to that argument.
However when Karachi (then Capital of Pakistan), noticed that Jammu and Kashmir had merged with India, Muhammad Ali Jinnah – the founding father of Pakistan – orchestrated an invasion by sending tribesmen who fueled widespread violence in Kashmir. He then ordered troops of the newly-formed Pakistan Military to invade Kashmir and forcibly take it over. This led to an armed battle between India and Pakistan. By the point the Indian forces might attain Kashmir, Pakistan had invaded and illegally occupied the areas we now consult with as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir – which incorporates the Gilgit-Baltistan area.
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