Even if this is true, it reflects poorly on Indians, rather than pakistanis. A few SMSes were circulated, and mass exoduses began happening across the country? The joke is still on us.
If ISI or pakistan did this, the GoI should thank them, for exposing weaknesses and faultlines in our society.
Some of the pakistanis commenting above are right - we don't have a right to laugh at them when some of the rabid people in their country see a CIA-RAW-MOSSAD-Zionist-whatever conspiracy to anything bad that happens there, and ignore the real problems in their society, if we also start exhibitting the same behavior. Instead of seeing paranoid conspiracies, we should be introspecting as to how a few SMSes and rumors were sufficient to make tens of thousands of people feel alienated and insecure. Is our national identity so fragile?
If ISI or pakistan did this, the GoI should thank them, for exposing weaknesses and faultlines in our society.
Some of the pakistanis commenting above are right - we don't have a right to laugh at them when some of the rabid people in their country see a CIA-RAW-MOSSAD-Zionist-whatever conspiracy to anything bad that happens there, and ignore the real problems in their society, if we also start exhibitting the same behavior. Instead of seeing paranoid conspiracies, we should be introspecting as to how a few SMSes and rumors were sufficient to make tens of thousands of people feel alienated and insecure. Is our national identity so fragile?