“Shortly after midnight on May 9, an Indian journalist received a WhatsApp message from Prasar Bharati, the state-owned public broadcaster. Pakistan’s army chief had been arrested, the message read, and a coup was underway.
Within minutes, the journalist posted the information on X and others followed suit. Soon enough, it was splashed across major Indian news networks and went viral on social media.
The “breaking news” was entirely false. There had been no coup in Pakistan. Gen. Asim Munir, far from being behind bars, would soon be elevated to the rank of field marshal…
Times Now Navbharat reported that Indian forces had entered Pakistan;
TV9 Bharatvarsh told viewers that Pakistan’s prime minister had surrendered;
Bharat Samachar said he was hiding in a bunker. All of them, along with some of the country’s largest channels — including
Zee News, ABP News and NDTV — repeatedly proclaimed that major Pakistani cities had been destroyed….
Just before midnight on May 8, in a WhatsApp message exchange seen by
The Post, a journalist with a major Hindi-language network messaged colleagues: “Indian navy can carry out an attack imminently,” citing unnamed sources. Another staffer responded simply, “Karachi,” but gave no details on sourcing. Within minutes, the channel was falsely reporting that the Indian navy had struck the port in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.”
Great times. I went back to this article for a good laugh.
Then 5 weeks later they remembered they had shot down our jets, and the jets we obliterated were suddenly decoys
Now Field Marshall Asim Munir, who they said had been arrested, is in charge of regional defence operations across the continent.
