Why the conduct of Pakistani trolls on the issue of Afghanistan is embarrassing & self-destructive!

[Sirris]

Why the conduct of Pakistani trolls on the issue of Afghanistan is embarrassing & self-destructive!

Why Pakistani trolls on social media are embarassing!

I have genuine concerns about the hateful and racist rhetoric being preached by the current Afghan government and the elite in Kabul towards Pakistani in general and Punjabi people in particular, because this doesn't pave the way for peace in the region even if all the Taliban were to vanish in a day. A whole generation of Afghans are being brought up with the indoctrination of hating Pakistan and its people. No doubt many Indian trolls can be seen supporting the Afghans in their hate of Pakistan and in fact at times outdo the Afghans.

At the same time the hoards of Pakistan trolls on the internet who own the Taliban, celebrate their every victory, rejoice over every loss they inflict on the Afghan national army and accept the Taliban to be run by Pak military are also acting in a self-destructive way and this behavior is like putting oil in the flame and it further strengthens the hateful rhetoric preached by Kabul elite and its Indian allies.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For the last time, this image doing the rounds on Pakistani social media is fake. Taliban have not released any such statement. Taliban political office spox recently gave an interview to Indian think tank. They're open to ties with India. So please, stop believing **. <a href="https://t.co/0s4ppNvQCZ">pic.twitter.com/0s4ppNvQCZ</a></p>— FJ (@Natsecjeff) <a href="https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1261799148413685760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This viral fake statement attributed to the Taliban's official spokesman claims that the Taliban are preparing for the famous "Ghazwa-e-Hind". They will start conducing suicide bombings soon in India and they bring good news for the Muslims in India because Islam will once again dominate all of India.

Meanwhile...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">India should talk directly to Taliban, says U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad - The Hindu <a href="https://t.co/QVNGeDkzcH">https://t.co/QVNGeDkzcH</a></p>— Muhammad Ibrahim Qazi (@miqazi) <a href="https://twitter.com/miqazi/status/1259167011617288198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Taliban says want good relations with all countries, including India<a href="https://t.co/B16Bygb1Fe">https://t.co/B16Bygb1Fe</a> <a href="https://t.co/cu2bfuR4T6">pic.twitter.com/cu2bfuR4T6</a></p>— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/htTweets/status/1234847999932551168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Through such messages some people in Pakistan might feel an ego push and reassurance about their fantasy world but in the end they only further increase the Islamophobia of ignorant Indians and the Pakistanphobia of indoctrinated Afghans.

At the end of the day, the gap between historically connected people widens, the mistrust increases and any chance of sanity prevailing decreases.

 

[Sirris]

Guess which clown, sorry I mean Mard-e-Mujahid and member of the elite advanced threat analysis Think Thank was caught spreading the hateful propaganda.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ur" dir="rtl">لبیک غزوہ ہند!! <br>اللہ اکبر.. اللہ اکبر.. اللہ اکبر!! <a href="https://t.co/sDTxmiWenh">pic.twitter.com/sDTxmiWenh</a></p>— Zaid Hamid (@ZaidZamanHamid) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZaidZamanHamid/status/1261787067455016962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is not some average, low key troll. Equally shameful and damaging as the Afghan colonel with his evidence of Pakistan being behind the dreadful hospital attack.

 

[sweep_shot]

There are trolls from all sides.

I don't think all of these people are trolls. Some of them can be misinformed and/or blind patriots.

 

[Sirris]

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailyt...ed-jihad-against-india-after-eid-ul-fitr/amp/

What are Taliban upto now? Are any other media outlets also reporting this?

This is established fake news.

I just checked the link you posted and have to say that this site dailytimes.com.pk seems to be run by some pretty low quality reporters.

In their report they show a tweet by FJ with Twitter handle @Natsecjeff, he is a Pakistani and very unbiased in his reporting of global conflicts. He immediately said the statement was fake when it first went viral. Only someone with close eyes would miss that tweet and instead post a pretty irrelevant to some how make the fake statement look authentic.

Best to avoid this newspaper in the future.

 

[Sirris]

Screenshots of tweets by a Taliban spokesperson.

According to him Zaid Hamid is the real culprit and also reaffirms that their main attitude is that they won't allow India or for that matter any neighboring country(Pakistan, Iran) to use Afghanistan for their agendas.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just leaving this here. <a href="https://t.co/8zA3IYIqmy">pic.twitter.com/8zA3IYIqmy</a></p>— FJ (@Natsecjeff) <a href="https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1262161344893267970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

One of the things that stood out to me is how the author of the fake statement intentionally added a grammatical error typically associated with Pashtun people, who sometimes mix up the masculine and feminine ending.

In Urdu it reads "taliban baqaida hindustan per jihad ka aghaz kare gi.

When I noticed that I knew that a real wicked person must have added that error intentionally.