BJP-run Indian media knew about 'security threats' to NZ tour a month ago

[Akatosh]

BJP-run Indian media knew about 'security threats' to NZ tour a month ago


News Desk September 17, 2021



An Indian media outlet, run by a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served as Minister of State for External Affairs between July 2016 and October 2018 under Narendra Modi, apparently knew about the "security threat" to the New Zealand cricket team almost a month before it pulled out of the tour.
New Zealand unilaterally decided to abandon its tour of Pakistan citing "security concerns" on Friday. The first ODI between the two sides was set to be played in Rawalpindi earlier in the day.
“Earlier today, the New Zealand Cricket informed us they had been alerted to some security alert and have unilaterally decided to postpone the series,” according to an official statement issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said.
“The Pakistan Cricket Board and Pakistan Government made foolproof security arrangements for all visiting teams. We have assured the New Zealand Cricket of the same. The Pakistan Prime Minister spoke personally to the Prime Minister of New Zealand and informed her that we have one of the best intelligence systems in the world and that no security threat of any kind exists for the visiting team,” it added.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, later in the day, said that the tour was cancelled under an international 'conspiracy'.
He said that he will not name the conspirators. However, he added that some forces wanted to make Pakistan a scapegoat after what had been happening in Afghanistan.
Sunday Guardian Live, owned by Mobasher Jawed Akbar aka MJ Akbar, ran a story titled ‘New Zealand cricket team may face terror attack in Pakistan’ on August 21, claiming that the New Zealand cricket team's tour of Pakistan was under "a terror threat with an imminent possibility of the touring cricketers being attacked by one of the many terror groups active in the volatile region."
It quoted banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) former spokesperson Ehsan Ullah Ehsan as saying that ISIS set-up in Pakistan was engaged in preparing for the attack on New Zealand players.

The report is written by a journalist named Abhinandan Mishra, who is considered a mouthpiece for India's security establishment. Quoting "sources" Mishra, on January 18, 2020, reported that Ehsan had escaped from the custody of Pakistan security agencies.
The news was confirmed by the government only a month after, raising eyebrows over the "sources" of the Indian journalist. A close inspection of his stories revealed that most of them were based on unnamed "sources" and were against Pakistan, its army and security institutions.


Pakistani officials have been saying that India has a clear policy against the country, in which disinformation and destabilisation are key components.
Researchers for Brussels-based EU DisinfoLab, in a 2019 study reported at least 265 fake local news websites, in more than 65 countries, working to sway public perceptions against Pakistan (and China).

These sites are managed by Indian influence networks and target international institutions and elected representatives of foreign governments. By 2020, these fake news websites — like OpIndia and Postcard News, had proliferated to 750 across 116 countries. The network included many dubious think tanks and NGOs and had continued for some 15 years.
A BBC report (titled “Indian Chronicles”) has traced many of these fake news websites to an Indian company, Srivastava Group (SG), lobbying for anti-Pakistan efforts in Europe. Its modus operandi consisted of copying syndicated news content from other media outlets, planting opinion pieces and stories critical of Pakistan mainly through NGOs linked to their network.
The goal remained to influence organisations like the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and European Parliament to discredit Pakistan. The SG website would falsely attribute their op-eds to authors like European lawmakers and fake journalists, with content mostly plagiarised from other sources.

Last month, National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf, during a press conference, regretted that many Indian and Afghan social media accounts were involved in maligning Pakistan.
The NSA said that the government has decided to expose the nefarious designs against Pakistan and will present its analysis with the help of data.
"We will expose everything with data and tell the world about it. We will present our point of view on national as well as international media," he added.
Speaking on the occasion, the information minister said that 150,000 tweets came from India alone on August 14, 2020, with #BalochistanSolidarityDay hashtag.
He said that Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) created 150 trends against Pakistan and they were supported by India. "A massive social media campaign is underway against Pakistan," he added.
Fawad said that many Wikipedia pages were also being edited by Indians to spread disinformation against Pakistan. "We discovered that 845 websites were created for spreading misinformation against Pakistan... these websites have closer ties with Indian news agency ANI

Indian media knew about 'security threats' to NZ a month ago | The Express Tribune

Indian media outlet apparently knew about security threat to the New Zealand cricket team almost a month before it pulled out of the Pakistan tour

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[maithil]

Pakistanis themselves may have become habituated to ignore such news, but others can't. 70 attacks in one month on armed forces does say a lot.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1439097821609840647

 

[STREANH]

NZ would never consider Indian media nor it's sources as a reliable source for such information. There is no way India could influence such major decisions especially when other countries have played in Pakistan in the recent past without any incident. There was no shortage of security cover to the NZ players and staff too as seen from the videos.

There must have been a serious threat for them to pull out in the last moment. The rumours suggest British intelligence warning against a potential attack against the NZ team, but that is being denied officially by the British envoy.

 

[Vapnope]

We all know who planted this intelligence leak. It the same people who whined about Pakistani jets and Drones in Panjshir. It is the high time to take them to task for they are never going to step away from their relentless efforts to hurt Pakistan and Pakistanis. Hope they pay albeit with interests for what they did to our children in APS.

 

[Aesterix]

PMLN and BJP are celebrating this together

 

[Goritoes]

Of course Indians know, they finance and support all sorts of terrorism in Pakistan.

 

[Prince Kassad]

Ofcourse we did it, Tme and place is our choosing. tables have turned.

 

[Enigma SIG]

BJP Loru's knew the attack was gonna happen because they paid for it!
Akatosh is a terrorist in disguise, get his IP and send a cruise missile up his bunghole!

 

[The Eagle]

Indians can celebrate it like as if they won something big but reality is; history will remember as how a country single handedly wiped out a fully western sponsored RAW/India influence in Central Asia. NZ cricket team going back or an attempt to malign Pakistan, is a short time celebration but history has other references.

Furthermore, I wouldn't a match fixing between NZ and India, as & when faced each other. A gift to be precisely.

 

[Windjammer]

Ofcourse we did it, Tme and place is our choosing. tables have turned.

Real men fight battles on the borders and in air.....drama queens hound players and performers, dig up pitches, throw ink on them or put detergent in their glass.....even then we never do a Pulwama.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

indian bullshit media also knows that Kabul's Serena Hotels' fifth floor is occupied by ISI but does not use their brains to check in google to see if it has more that two floors

 

[Dalit]

Ofcourse we did it, Tme and place is our choosing. tables have turned.

LOL you enjoy your little cricket victory. We are more than happy with Afghan victory. LOL at tables have turned. Crazy Hindutva maniac.

 

[Clutch]

Indian Media knew they along with the neanderthal fundamentalist Hindutva will be making fake calls and threats of TTP terrorism when the New Zealand team was visiting...


It's a prank call...

 

[Imran Khan]

no they not they were just wishing it

 

[HAIDER]

what India is achieving from this TTP post.
1. Taliban rift inside Afghanistan and show TTP is more active under Taliban rule.
2. Pakistan and the new Afghan govt have increasing security issues.
3. Pakistani army is not capable enough to counter TTP to secure NW and SW regions.
4. All terror attack initiates from few miles inside Afghan border. ( Terrorist on Saturday fired on a military checkpost in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's North Waziristan district, resulting in the martyrdom of a soldier, a statement issued by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. )

But on the positive side, this tweet shows Pakistan has no control over the Taliban and they are doing what they think is right. Plus, Pakistan is much a bigger victim of terrorism than any other country. Too much. Now I am realizing, that India was not ready to accept the Afghanistan cakewalk at the hand of the Taliban. India is bringing the war in Afghanistan at any cost. But, India is not alone in this confrontation ....