#EU DisinfoLab | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

mariacallous · 6 months

Text

“Now, how long will this take? The Ukrainians behave like charlatans and we continue to pay,” reads a quote in French next to a picture of Taylor Swift on what looks like a promotional poster for an upcoming tour. “That is not right.”

“Every time the Ukrainians get money, everything goes wrong,” reads another quote in German next to a picture of Selena Gomez on what appears to be a page taken from a fashion magazine.

"It's just disappointing how the Ukrainians use our help,” a quote, also in German, reads next to a picture of Kim Kardashian speaking on stage. “Someone needs to stop this, seriously."

Though the images make it look like these quotes were said by Swift, Gomez, and Kardashian, they weren’t. They were the product of a pro-Russian network of fake Facebook and X accounts that created and disseminated an ad campaign suggesting that some of the most famous people in the world back Russia and detest Ukraine. Among the celebrities included are Beyoncé, Oprah, Gigi Hadid, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Cristiano Ronaldo. “Supporting Ukrainians is unacceptable,” reads a quote next to a photo of Oprah. “Their actions destroy lives and societies.”

The disinformation campaign, which was launched in November, reached at least 7.6 million people on Facebook alone, according to a database of the ads reviewed by WIRED and collected by Reset, a nonprofit that provides grants to those tackling disinformation. It’s still in progress, and two separate groups of disinformation researchers believe the campaign is run by a notorious Russian influence operation dubbed Doppelganger that has in the past been linked to the Kremlin. New information shared exclusively with WIRED suggests the campaign has links to Russia’s GRU military spy agency.

At the beginning of November, researchers at Reset discovered what they described as a “blitz campaign” by two networks of fake Facebook pages. Over the course of a week, the researchers saw at least 560 Facebook ads that feature images of celebrities alongside pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian quotes. While some of the ads reached only thousands of users, others spread far more widely. One featuring Cristiano Ronaldo reached over 115,000 people before it was deactivated. Alongside the image of Ronaldo was the quote “It's frustrating to see how the Ukrainians use our aid. Someone needs to stop this, seriously.”

Researchers at Reset believe that the campaign “exploits loopholes in Facebook’s ad verification and content moderation systems to foster hostility against Ukrainians and undermine EU support for Kyiv.” Including fake quotes from celebrities within images makes it harder for Facebook to spot a coordinated campaign, they added. The campaign, which specifically targeted people in France and Germany, also removed any links or additional text in the ads, making it harder for Meta to track it.

Doppelganger has been actively spreading disinformation on both Facebook and X for some time. The organization was unmasked in September 2022 by EU DisinfoLab, a nonprofit working to combat disinformation against the EU, but it had been operating since at least May 2022. The group used clones of media websites, including The Guardian and Bild, to spread disinformation, filling the fake sites with articles, videos, and polls designed to push pro-Kremlin talking points about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Facebook first announced action against Doppelganger in September 2022, and said it was removing pages and accounts associated with the campaign.

In June 2023, another campaign targeting major French websites including Le Parisien, 20 Minutes, Le Monde, and Le Figaro was exposed by the French government. “French Minister supports the murder of Russian soldiers in Ukraine,” read one fake headline on a page that looked like Le Monde during that campaign.

Despite being repeatedly found out, the operators of Doppelganger have managed to continue their work: They also created fake versions of Fox News and other news websites to seed chaos and confusion during the Israel-Hamas war.

While Doppelganger campaigns in the past have been linked to the Kremlin in some media reports, new information from researchers tracking the disinformation campaign shows a link to Russia’s GRU.

A network of bot accounts on X, which in the past have been used to push Doppelganger’s fake websites, has also been used to push people to websites with direct links to Russia’s military spy agency. “Doppelganger bots promoted two sites recently, which both have strong connections to GRU,” researchers at Antibot4Navalny, a Russian anti-disinformation research group that has been closely tracking Doppelganger activity on X, tell WIRED. The researchers did not want to be identified due to security concerns.

The first site promoted by the Doppelganger bots was ObservateurContinental.fr. The Whois data, a public record of information related to the registration of a website, for this site shows that it is connected to InfoRos, a news agency previously linked to the GRU that operates hundreds of websites to push Kremlin propaganda. InfoRos was first reported to be a front organization for GRU Unit 54777 by The Washington Post in 2018. At the time, the group was said to have been active as far back as 2014 to spread disinformation about Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

The second site pushed by Doppelganger bots targeted Germans. In October 2022, an investigation by the German newspaper Die Welt found that the author of content on the EuroBRICS site was being paid directly by InfoRos, which is registered as the operator of the EuroBRICs website by the German domain registrar.

Many of the same images from Doppelganger’s campaign, along with others targeting an English-speaking audience, were also shared on X by the same network of bots that have previously shared links to the Doppelganger campaigns.

“We collected a whopping 75-plus fake quotes by celebrities from the US and EU, all massively posted recently by bots of Doppelganger, the pro-Kremlin influence campaign,” one of the researchers at Antibot4Navalny tells WIRED.

The campaign on X, which coincided with the Facebook campaign, used over 10,000 bot accounts, according to the researchers. In the space of one eight-hour period, the bots posted over 27,000 messages. At one point, the bot accounts were posting 120 messages every minute.

The posts on X are identical to those posted as ads on Facebook identified by Reset, except that some of these posts were in English. The X campaign also featured mocked-up versions of celebrities’ verified Instagram accounts, making it seem as if screenshots of celebrity Instagram accounts, using similar anti-Ukraine quotes, were being shared.

X did not respond to a request for comment from WIRED about the Doppelganger campaign. Since Elon Musk took control of the platform in October 2022, he has eliminated most of the company’s trust and safety team, and disinformation has flourished on the site, especially around breaking news events like the recent Israel-Hamas war.

One of Reset’s researchers, who did not want to be identified to protect their privacy, tells WIRED that, in recent days, researchers have seen Doppelganger’s celebrity-based campaign evolve. Some ads on Facebook now, like the ones on X, feature screenshots that appear to show verified Instagram accounts of the same celebrities, adding a further layer of authenticity to the campaign. In one case, a screenshot of a fake Instagram post from the entrepreneur Richard Branson suggests that he believes America was behind the Nord Stream explosion.

The researcher also found video ads that feature real footage of celebrities with fake audio dubbed over the top, which they say have been created with text-to-speech apps. The researchers at Reset were unable to identify which app was being used to automate the creation of the videos. One example reviewed by WIRED showed footage of German filmmaker Wim Wenders speaking in English about his own films, dubbed to make it appear as if he was speaking in French about how “the Ukrainians are ruined.” The ad was posted to Facebook on November 25 and was seen by up to 3,000 people before it was removed for failing to have the “required disclaimer,” according to Facebook’s ad library.

While Facebook has taken down the majority of the pages, some of them remain active, and the campaign shows glaring gaps in Meta’s ability to deal with disinformation on this scale.

Meta declined to respond on the record to WIRED’s request for comment about the campaign and the network of fake accounts created to disseminate the false ads. In a report from August, however, Meta acknowledged that Doppelganger was the “largest and most aggressively persistent covert influence operation from Russia that we’ve seen since 2017.”

The automated creation of accounts on Facebook is a well-known problem, and Meta has deployed a variety of artificial intelligence systems to combat efforts to mass-create fake pages and accounts. By its own admission, Facebook deletes millions, and sometimes billions, of fake pages every quarter, sometimes within minutes of their creation. Meta claims that around 5 percent of its monthly average users are fake, but outside experts say that figure is substantially higher.

While the Doppelganger group ran the campaign, the fake Facebook pages it used were purchased from an agency that specializes in creating massive networks of inauthentic pages on Facebook, according to Reset. They are still investigating who created these initial networks, but the researchers say this campaign was pushed out by two separate networks they identified containing 52,000 and 25,000 pages respectively. In October, Reset published a report identifying even larger networks of inauthentic Facebook pages, including one that had over 340,000 inauthentic pages. Despite having been identified publicly, these networks are still operating today.

With a number of major elections taking place in 2024, experts are again concerned about Meta’s ability to reign in disinformation.

“Meta’s sloppy product safety is a security liability for both Europe and the US as we approach next year’s elections,” Felix Kartte, EU director at Reset claims to WIRED. “Threat actors will continue exploiting loopholes in Facebook’s advertising systems to target deceptive and inflammatory content at millions of voters in the world’s biggest democracies.”

124 notes · View notes

nando161mando · 8 months

Text

"@whiterosesocau The Australia Today also functions in the same way as other disinformation campaigns from India as investigated here by @disinfoeu report."

0 notes

xtruss · 11 months

Text

Global Times Investigates: How Fascist Hindus Indian Media Fabricates Think Tanks, Journalists To Churn Out Anti-China, Pakistan News

— Global Times Staff Reporters | June 20, 2023

A reporter holds a microphone with the logo of ANI during a press conference in India, on March 3, 2023. Photo: VCG

A recent report by a European organization investigating fake narratives of Indian media went viral on Chinese social media platforms recently, drawing wide attention to India's supposedly vast smear campaign against China and Pakistan.

Following reports in 2019 and 2020, the latest investigation report by independent non-profit organization EU DisinfoLab, published in February 2023, exposes more details and evidences to prove that Asian News International (ANI), an Indian news agency, has been quoting a number of non-existent organizations, journalists and bloggers to spread disinformation that attacks and smears China and Pakistan. The report further uncovered that India has long been building a huge anti-China and anti-Pakistan disinformation network and that Indian media outlets have built a sophisticated assembly line of fake anti-China and anti-Pakistan news.

On the one hand, the Indian media produces and spreads false narratives about China, and on the other hand, the Indian government restricts Chinese journalists' access to India and deny their rights of reporting a real India, by treating Chinese journalists in an unfair and discriminatory manner during their posting in India and visa application process.

Chinese experts said the investigation report exposes a deliberate effort by India or Indian media to shape negative narratives against China and Pakistan. The presence of such disinformation campaign aligns with India's strained relations with both countries. They pointed out that the production of fake news by Indian media can incite nationalist sentiment within the country and distract people from the real problems of the country and the poor performance of its government.

Within the complex geopolitical context of South Asia, such disinformation campaigns can have far-reaching consequences, which can exacerbate tensions, strain diplomatic relations, and hinder regional cooperation efforts, observers warned.

Bad Sources

The investigation report titled "Bad Sources - How Indian news agency ANI quoted sources that do not exist," published by EU DisinfoLab, unveils "its latest investigation into anti-Pakistan/China influence operations," according to the organization.

The report said ANI is an Indian news agency that plays a relevant role in the country's information ecosystem, providing content for many well-established media across India, such as The Print and Business Standard. With this network, ANI acts as a purveyor of news to millions of Indians.

In the report, researchers write that ANI has been repeatedly quoting articles and reports issued by a think tank named the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS). The think tank was previously chaired by Mario Silva, a former Canadian Member of Parliament (MP), and dissolved in 2014, according to public information provided on a Canadian government website.

However, when they checked IFFRAS' official website, the researchers found that it has kept updating information, including articles, news, books and even conferences, and that ANI has kept quoting information from the think tank's website.

For example, on December 27, 2022, IFFRAS published an article titled "Pakistan's persecution of minorities under scanner again," and on the same day, the article was quoted by ANI in a piece of news headlined "Pakistan's ill-treatment of minorities under scanner after UK sanctions Sindhi cleric," with most of the contents coming from the IFFRAS article.

ANI has quoted IFFRAS more than 200 times from May 2021 to January 2023, and "in most instances, it was not only quoting but using the IFFRAS 'reports' as the backbone of the articles," said the report.

News reports produced by ANI quoting IFFRAS can possibly get republished or reported on by other media outlets. For example, in April 14, 2022, an ANI report quoting IFFRAS was reproduced by The Statesman, an Indian daily newspaper, allowing the ANI report to reach a wider audience.

In addition, researchers of EU DisinfoLab further investigated whether the conference attendees at the think tank quoted in the articles actually exist.

To find out who was attending conferences held by IFFRAS, researchers contacted attendees of a session discussing the "Increasing presence of Muslim Brotherhood." But two of the attendees mentioned by IFFRAS responded that they had never attended such a conference and that the Muslim Brotherhood "had nothing (to do) with their field of expertise."

The investigation report also pointed out that more than 70 speakers mentioned in the fake conferences of IFFRAS did not exist at all.

Another interesting finding is that, in contrast to the frequent updates on its website, IFFRAS' Twitter account has not posted any content since 2021. Therefore, the researchers assumed that "the sole purpose of IFFRAS is to produce content that can be covered by ANI and then republished widely throughout the Indian press."

ANI's editor Smita Prakash responded to the report on Twitter on February 24, dubbing it "defamatory and false."

The Global Times has tried to contact ANI through the email address provided on its website, wanting to get a response on whether the news agency was aware that IFFRAS had been disbanded in 2014 and does not exist now. However, as of the publication of this report, there was no response from ANI.

Apart from IFFRAS, the researchers also looked into another think tank frequently quoted by ANI, the Policy Research Group (POREG), in which the researchers found no sign of the existence of three new members who had reportedly joined the group in the last two years.

For example, one of them is James Duglous Crickton, a misspelling of James Douglas Crickton, who wrote an article claiming that former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf held a secret bank account in Switzerland, which was later covered by ANI.

The researchers said that they have tried to get in touch with the three people through POREG, but have received no response. However, the three people had been quoted by ANI numerous times on topics such as Pakistan's army doctrines and China's "wolf warrior diplomacy," according to the investigation report.

The researchers also tried to get contact with Philippe Jeune, a claimed "Paris-based investigative journo with more than 10 years' experience" and sometimes a claimed "Brussels-based freelance journalist," who was quoted by ANI in a piece of news entitled "European Parliament to withdraw Pakistan's GSP+ status over abuse of blasphemy laws" - a withdrawal that did not happen, and efforts to do so again failed.

Asif Noor, founder of the Friends of BRI Forum, a Pakistan-based think tank, told the Global Times that in the investigation, ANI has been found to quote non-existent organizations, presenting them as credible sources of information. The expert noted that by attributing statements and opinions to these fictional entities, ANI creates a false impression of legitimacy and credibility for the disinformation being spread.

These fabricated figures are used as experts to provide opinions and analysis to further mislead readers and reinforce the false narratives. ANI's articles, containing the disseminated disinformation, are reproduced and shared across various well-established media outlets in India, Asif noted. "This amplification of the false narratives through multiple platforms increases their reach and potential impact, potentially influencing a wider audience and shaping public opinion."

The Real Filthiest Face of the Rapes Capital of the World, The Fascist Hindus’ Rapestan (India). Source: European Union 🇪🇺 DisinfoLab Report. Graphic: Global Times

Vast Network

The IFFRAS think tank mentioned in the lab report was also found to be linked to the Srivastava Group, as the researchers found that IFFRAS has been registered by using a well-known email address from the Srivastava Group.

The latter is a notorious Indian shell corporation, and the EU DisinfoLab pointed out in its 2020 report that nominally, the group's main business is news media, with offices in Brussels and Geneva, and registrations of more than 750 media, think tanks and more than 550 domain names in 116 countries and regions around the world.

However, the researchers investigated and found that there was no profitable business under the Srivastava Group, and the media and think tanks related to the group basically only had a name but no actual business. For example, the researchers uncovered EU Chronicle, a fake media with fake journalists supposedly covering European affairs, which was actually serving as a platform for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to sign pro-Indian articles.

In fact, the group is a representative of the disinformation war launched by India against China. Under the lead of the Srivastava Group, which is based overseas in Geneva and Brussels, an information warfare network has been woven, with a number of fake media, think tanks and NGOs all over the world.

The fake news produced by the fake media under the group is also published and reprinted by some Indian media websites such as ANI which increases the reach of the disinformation.

For example, on September 17, 2020, an article was published in the EU Chronicle about a letter sent by several MEPs to the President of the European Council Charles Michel, asking for taking strong actions on China's Human Rights atrocities at the EU-China Summit. The article was titled "Meaningful address and strong action needed against China's human rights atrocities." In its coverage of the news, ANI changed the headline as "Members of the European Parliament urge EU to take strong action on China for Human Rights Violation." But then the coverage of ANI was distorted by the Srivastava Group's other fake media, which ran it under the headline: "EU to take strong action on China."

In the end, a simple request by individual MEPs, who are free to send any letter they want to send, was ultimately presented as an official position of the EU on China.

Represented by the EU Chronicle, fake media of India published a large number of discrediting articles on China and Pakistan in an attempt to damage the reputation of the countries internationally and win more support for India from institutions such as the EU and UN.

In addition, according to the lab's investigation, under India's vast network of fake narratives, many organizations created by the group are active in cities which host headquarters of international organizations, such as Geneva, Brussels and New York. These organizations include "South Asia Peace Forum," the "Baloch Forum" and "Friends of Gilgit-Baltistan."

In order to increase the official element and credibility of their organizations, they even paid some MEPs to make pro-India, anti-Pakistan and anti-China remarks, and organized trips for MEPs to Kashmir, Bangladesh and the Maldives. The researchers noted that "some of these trips led to much institutional controversy, as the delegations of MEPs were often presented as official EU delegations when they were in fact not travelling on behalf of the Parliament."

Responsible dissemination of accurate and verified information is crucial in fostering informed public discourse and upholding journalistic ethics, Asif noted. But India lacks the ability and is using it in favor of its own motivations, the expert said.

Beautify Image

Experts noted that China and Pakistan have long been targets of India's disinformation campaign.

Topics related to the China-India border region, including the China-India border issue and China's border negotiation with Bhutan, are a major focus of the India's fabrication and smearing on China.

In addition, discrediting China's Belt and Road Initiative and the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and smearing on China's policies in Xinjiang and Xizang regions in terms of ethnic, religious, human rights and other issues are also the top agenda items set by some forces in India in the disinformation war against China, Sun Xihui, an associate research fellow with the National Institute of International Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.

With the help of these fake reports, the Indian media not only discredit China, but also try to raise the image of its own government in its community. By building the image of China with social chaos and oppression of people domestically, and deceiving internationally, the India media aimed to beautify India's image of democracy at home and friendship with its neighbors internationally, Sun noted.

The international community's perception of Pakistan and China may be swayed by the misinformation disseminated by India, affecting how these nations are viewed in terms of their policies, actions, and intentions. This can lead to biased judgments and misconceptions about Pakistan and China's contributions to regional and global affairs, Asif said.

To counter false narrative campaigns of India, experts noted that there should be a multifaceted approach involving various strategies. "It is important that China and Pakistan should promote media literacy to educate the public about identifying and evaluating misinformation and disinformation," Asif said.

"Citizens should also utilize social media platforms, official websites, and other digital channels to directly communicate with global audiences," said the expert.

Gary Machado, managing director of EU DisinfoLab, said he thought the muted reaction to the revelation of the disinformation network was partly because it was "clearly managed by Indian stakeholders."

"Imagine if the same operation was run by China or Russia. How do you think the world would have reacted? Probably with international outrage, leading to public inquiries and probably sanctions," he told BBC in an interview in December 2022.

#India’s Fake Midia #Fascist Hindu Extremists #China 🇨🇳 & Pakistan 🇵🇰#European Union 🇪🇺 DisinfoLab Report #India’s 750 Fake Outlets

0 notes

piyasahaberleri · 1 year

Link

Düzmece haberleri gösteren temsili bir fotoğraf. — Sıçramayı Kaldır Hindistan'ın önde gelen haber ajanslarından önde gelen Asian News International (ANI), "var olmayan" kaynaklara dayanarak Hindistan'da Pakistan ve Çin karşıtı anlatıları yaymaya devam ediyor.EU DisinfoLab bunu, 2019 ve 2020'de gösterilen önceki iki soruşturmanın devamı niteliğindeki son soruşturma raporunda ortaya koydu. Brüksel merkezli kar amacı gütmeyen grup önceki raporlarında YILLAR "Aslına bakarsak Hindistan'da Pakistan/Çin karşıtı anlatıları yaymak için oluşturulmuş, sözde AB meselelerinde uzmanlaşmış iki düzmece medya kuruluşu" olan feshedilmiş - EP Today ve EU Chronicles - alıntı yapmaktan.YILLARHindistan genelinde birçok köklü medyaya içerik sunan , yayılmaya devam ediyor dezenformasyon. 'Fena Kaynaklar (BS)' adlı raporda, "Bu düzmece kişiler ve/yada kuruluşlar tarafınca öne sürülen anlatılar, neredeyse tamamen Hindistan'ın internasyonal sahnedeki en büyük müttefikleri olmayan Pakistan ve Çin'i eleştirmekle ilgili." Soruşturma, haber ajansının 2014'te feshedilen bir fikir kuruluşundan onlarca kere alıntı yaptığını ortaya koyuyor. Ek olarak, var olmayan gazeteciler, blog yazarları ve jeopolitik uzmanlardan alıntılar kullanıyor. "Düzmece kendilerini James Bond fanatikleri, basketbolcular ve yönetim danışmanları olarak tanımlayan kişiler, jeopolitik uzmanlar haline geldi. YILLAR DisinfoLab, Pakistan'ın ordu doktrinleri ve Çin'in 'kurt savaşçı diplomasisi' benzer biçimde mevzularda onlarca kere" dedi. "2014'te feshedilen bir fikir kuruluşundan şimdi haftada iki kez alıntı yapılıyor. YILLAR," raporuna gore. — AB DisinfoLab "Fikir kuruluşunun internet sayfası, gerçek Kanadalı üniversite profesörlerinden yanlış bir halde, asla katılmadıkları bir konferansın katılımcısı olarak bahsediyor, hatta bu akademisyenler tarafınca yanlış alıntılar uyduruyor." Bu anlatıların hemen sonra öteki birkaç medya kuruluşunda tekrardan yayınlandığını söylemiş oldu. "Ek olarak YILLAR ve içeriğini tekrardan gösteren mecralar, bu 'Fena Kaynaklar' (BS) tarafınca üretilen raporları neredeyse hiçbir yerleşik medya yayınlamadı - bu soruşturmaya verdiğimiz isim" dedi. DisinfoLab.

0 notes

casuallyenchantingwombat · 3 years

Link

16 notes · View notes

techrise · 3 years

Link

#Srivastava Group #Kashmir Propaganda #Indian disinformation campaign #India-Pakistan conflict #European Parliament #EU DisinfoLab

0 notes

resetourplanet · 3 years

Text

How India tried to target EU and UN for 15-years to serve Indian interests. Investigation exposed Indian government.

The EU DisinfoLab in its report, deep dive into a 15-year operation targeting the EU and United Nations to serve Indian interests, termed this as the “largest network” of disinformation they have exposed so far.

#india #india exposed #fake media #fake news #cheap tricks #EU #UN #Indian government exposed #disinfolab #indian chronicles

0 notes

pixeljunkiettube · 5 years

Photo

#eu #DisInfoLab uncovered a #worldwide #network of 265 #fake #media outlets in 65 countries, targeting the #usa , #canada , #brussels , #geneva and many more, which all serve #indian lobbying interests. Beware Everyone... https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ANr4bJUbUJqg8u8CeatHYY-G9xChm0uamwG80/?igshid=1bgbq5fo7jfk4

#eu #disinfolab #worldwide #network #fake #media #usa #canada #brussels #geneva #indian

0 notes

superfuji · 3 years

Text

"Non ho mai visto una rete di questa portata”, ammette sbalordito Kevin Limonier, ricercatore dell’Istituto francese di geopolitica specializzato in disinformazione e influenza russa nel web. Dopo mesi di lavoro e un’indagine durata più di un anno, il 9 dicembre 2020 l’ong belga Eu DisinfoLab ha pubblicato un rapporto di un centinaio di pagine che svela i meccanismi della più grande lobby e rete di disinformazione mai vista sul territorio europeo. Un’organizzazione tentacolare che opera da quindici anni al parlamento europeo e alla sede dell’Onu a Ginevra, con risultati concreti. Secondo Ben Nimmo, esperto di disinformazione e giornalista d’inchiesta di Graphika, una società che analizza i social network, le Indian chronicles, l’insieme dei documenti raccolti dall’ong, rivelano “una rete di disinformazione di portata e impatto paragonabili alle interferenze russe durante la campagna elettorale del 2016 negli Stati Uniti”. Si tratta di una vera macchina della propaganda che promuove gli interessi dell’India, un paese di cui si parla poco anche se è grandecome un continente.

Questo meccanismo dagli ingranaggi ben oliati e dalle numerose ramificazioni ha numeri che danno le vertigini: centinaia di siti internet, decine di ong fittizie e centinaia di falsi siti d’informazione creati dal nulla al servizio degli interessi di New Delhi e del suo primo ministro, il nazionalista Narendra Modi. Al centro di questa ragnatela, i cui contorni sono ancora difficili da definire, c’è un consorzio di aziende indiane, la holding Srivastava, che sul suo sito si definisce “il gruppo in più rapida crescita del paese, con interessi nelle risorse naturali, nell’energia pulita, nello spazio aereo, nei servizi di consulenza, nella salute, nella stampa e nell’editoria”.

La lobby indiana nel cuore dell’Europa. Da quindici anni è attiva una rete che diffonde notizie false per influenzare le istituzioni europee e l’Onu in modo da favorire gli interessi di New Delhi

mega.nz/file/fKhxHY6J#NE187mfZ_ZRemURbCYXp7-_kHWq0Kls1th1vsBoN48Q

#esteri #india #europa #onu #lobby #informazione #giornalismo #mass media #disinformazione #fake news #riviste #magazines

6 notes · View notes

rympresse · 3 years

Text

DÉSINFORMATION │ Indian Chronicles : le réseau indien d’infox qui tisse sa toile jusqu’au Maroc

Nouvelles révélations sur le réseau tentaculaire d’influence et de désinformation indien. Au Maroc, trois médias ont été ressuscités sur Internet en anglais pour servir les intérêts du gouvernement nationaliste indien de Narendra Modi en opposition à Islamabad

Le média en ligne Les Jours, vient de publier une enquête en deux épisodes sur une machine de guerre informationnelle et d’inuence basée en Inde. Cette enquête vient compléter celle de l’ONG bruxelloise EU DisinfoLab. Au bout d’un an de travail d’investigation, l’ONG a produit une centaine de pages qui dévoiles les coulisses d’un réseau tentaculaire opérant depuis 15 ans à la fois au Parlement européen et à l’ONU. D’après Ben Nimmo, expert reconnu de la désinformation et enquêteur en analyse des réseaux sociaux, il s’agit « d’un réseau de désinformation dont l’ampleur et l’impact sont comparables à l’opération d’ingérence russe pendant la campagne aux États-Unis en 2016 ».

Des centaines de faux sites internet, des dizaines d’ONG ressuscitées et plusieurs médias fantômes, forment un vaste réseau servant le soft-power indien. À la tête de cette toile d’araignée, un consortium d’entreprises indiennes : le groupe Srivastava. Décrit sur son site web, comme un groupe « à la croissance la plus rapide du pays avec des intérêts dans les ressources naturelles, l’énergie propre, l’espace aérien, les services de conseil, la santé, la presse écrite et l’édition », il a déjà été épinglée dans un rapport d’EU DisinfoLab. L’exposé révélait alors, son implication dans un vaste réseau de désinformation d’au moins 265 faux sites d’information opérants dans une soixantaine de pays dont la France.

Il y’a près d’un an, la première enquête de EU DinsinfoLab, faisait état de trois étranges sites d’information numériques basés cette fois au Maroc. Il s’agissait alors de Le Réveil du Tadla, Hayat Echchaab et Al Mukah. Le Réveil du Tadla premier premier cité reprend, le nom d’un journal né sous le protectorat français. Les deux autres sont, en réalité, deux anciens journaux militants, aliés au Parti Communiste marocain (PCM) créés sous la direction de Ali Yata. Les trois sont ressuscités sur Internet en anglais pour servir les intérêts du gouvernement nationaliste de Narendra Modi en opposition à Islamabad. On se souvient, que l’adresse de ces trois médias fantômes renvoyaient au centre d’affaire Mathis de Rabat et au Twin Center de Casablanca.

Par ailleurs, trois acteurs majeurs de cette opération géante semblent ressortir de l’enquête. D’abords, le fondateur du groupe Srivastava , Govind Narain apparait dans un rapport du département d’État américain récemment déclassié qui portait sur la propagande soviétique. L’homme serait également proche du régime nord-coréen. Son épouse, Pramila actuellement au board de Srivastava a, en 2009, en marge de la 11ème session du Human Rights Council à l’ONU, menacé une pédiatre venue s’exprimer sur les infanticides au Punjab. La doctoresse aurait selon Pramila présenté « une mauvaise image de l’Inde ». Suite à cela, menace la pédiatre aurait été questionnée par les services de renseignement indiens à son retour au pays. Le troisième protagoniste serait Ankur Srivastava, fondateur et directeur de l’entreprise Aglaya, spécialisée dans les malwares. Il aurait confié à Forbes en 2013 « ne travailler qu’avec les services secrets indiens ». Pour le lien entre EU Chronicle et Srivastava, d’une part, EU Chronicle, a coïncidemment la même adresse IP que des ONG du groupe Srivastava. D’autre part, le « journal » fonctionne de la même façon qu’un autre site, épinglé par EU DisinfoLab dans un précédent rapport.

Alors qu’EP Today (pour « European Parliament Today ») était en fait une vitrine du Parlement européen. EU Chronicle abrite une rubrique qui héberge des tribunes, notamment d’eurodéputés. Vient alors, Asian News International (ANI), une agence de presse vidéo dont dépend l’intégralité des télévisions indiennes. Elle a pour rôle de « blanchir l’information ». L’agence relaye presque instantanément les contenus produits par les sites du réseau Srivastava et les mets à disposition de millions d’utilisateurs indiens. S’opère alors une redoutable chaîne de distorsion de l’information. Ainsi, « Une tribune d’ EU Chronicle peut finalement devenir une position officielle de Bruxelles via l’agence de presse ANI », ajoute Les Jours. Autre détail de l’enquête titanesque, un recruteur aurait réussi via proxy à embaucher des étudiants suisses et les payer en espèces pour prononcer des discours au Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations unies. Mais même si la quasi-totalité des sites ont disparus à la publication du rapport de DisinfoLab, l’absence de réactions des autorités et des institutions ont permis à Srivastava de vite rebâtir un réseau pour remplacer celui qui venait de plier bagage. Les Jours promettent de sortir deux articles supplémentaires dévoilant probablement plus de détails et de subtilités entourant le réseau indien. Car plusieurs questions demeurent en suspens, comme le degré d’implication des services de renseignement indiens.

2 notes · View notes

unatkozorobotok · 5 years

Link

India is rákönyökölt a fakenews-gombra :D

#osint

1 note · View note

xtruss · 3 years

Text

The Dead Professor and the Vast Pro-India Disinformation Campaign

— By Abid Hussain & Shruti Menon | BBC Urdu & BBC Reality Check | December 10, 2020

captionThe UN Human Rights Council meets at least three times a year and reviews UN member states' rights records

A dead professor and numerous defunct organisations were resurrected and used alongside at least 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian interests, a new investigation has revealed.

The man whose identity was stolen was regarded as one of the founding fathers of international human rights law, who died aged 92 in 2006.

"It is the largest network we have exposed," said Alexandre Alaphilippe, executive director of EU DisinfoLab, which undertook the investigation and published an extensive report on Wednesday.

The network was designed primarily to "discredit Pakistan internationally" and influence decision-making at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and European Parliament, EU DisinfoLab said.

EU DisinfoLab partially exposed the network last year but now says the operation is much larger and more resilient than it first suspected.

REVEALED: Indian Chronicles – how a massive 15-year influence operation successfully targeted the EU & UN with 750+ fake local media and 10+ zombie-NGOs. Executive Summary & full report: http://indianchronicles.eu Here are the facts 👇 (1/n) (EU DisinfoLab @disinfoEU)

There is no evidence the network is linked to India's government, but it relies heavily on amplifying content produced on fake media outlets with the help of Asian News International (ANI) - India's largest wire service and a key focus of the investigation.

The EU DisinfoLab researchers, who are based in Brussels, believe the network's purpose is to disseminate propaganda against India's neighbour and rival Pakistan. Both countries have long sought to control the narrative against the other.

Last year, the researchers uncovered 265 pro-Indian sites operating across 65 countries, and traced them back to a Delhi-based Indian holding company, the Srivastava Group (SG).

Wednesday's report, titled Indian Chronicles, reveals that the operation, run by SG, is spread over at least 116 countries and has targeted members of the European Parliament and the United Nations - raising questions about how much EU and UN staff knew about SG's activities, and whether they could have done more to counter those activities, especially after last year's report.

Mr Alaphilippe said the EU DisinfoLab researchers had never encountered such co-ordination between different stakeholders to spread disinformation.

"During the last 15 years, and even after being exposed last year, the fact that this network managed to operate so effectively shows the sophistication and the drive of the actors behind Indian Chronicles," he said.

Some of the many news sites the investigation found to be fake

"You need more than a few computers to plan and sustain such an action," he said.

The researchers cautioned against "definitively attributing Indian Chronicles to some specific actors such as Indian intelligence services" without further investigation.

Ben Nimmo, a disinformation network expert, told the BBC the uncovered network was "one of the most persistent and complex operations" he had seen, but he too was wary of attributing it to a specific actor.

Mr Nimmo, who is director of investigations at digital monitoring firm Graphika, cited previous examples of privately-run large-scale troll operations. "Just because they're big, it doesn't necessarily mean they're directly run by the state," he said.

The BBC approached the Indian government for comment but had received no response by the time of publication.

Of ghosts and defunct NGOs

One of the most important findings of the open-source investigation was establishing direct links between the Srivastava Group (SG) and at least 10 UN-accredited NGOs, along with several others, which were used to promote Indian interests and criticise Pakistan internationally.

"In Geneva, these think tanks and NGOs are in charge of lobbying, of organising demonstrations, speaking during press conferences and UN side-events, and they were often given the floor at the UN on behalf of the accredited organisations," the report says.

The investigation shows that the operation led by SG began in late 2005, a few months after the UNHRC was founded in its current form.

One particular NGO which caught the eye of the researchers was the Commission to Study the Organisation of Peace (CSOP). The CSOP was founded in the 1930s and won UN-accreditation in 1975 but became inactive later in the 1970s.

The investigation found that a former chairman of the CSOP - Prof Louis B Sohn, one of the 20th Century's leading international law scholars and a Harvard Law faculty member for 39 years - was listed under the name Louis Shon as a CSOP participant at the UNHRC session in 2007 and at a separate event in Washington DC in 2011.

The listings shocked the researchers because Prof Sohn died in 2006.

Louis B Sohn "appeared" at events years after he died

The authors dedicated their investigation to the professor's memory, writing that his name had been "usurped by the malicious actors in this report". They said CSOP "had been resurrected, and its identity hijacked in 2005 by the same actors depicted in our first investigation".

The investigation also shows there were several hundred pro-Indian interventions by the non-accredited NGOs, which were repeatedly given the floor at the UNHRC on behalf of the accredited organisations, pursuing the same agenda of maligning Pakistan.

On other occasions, NGOs and organisations which seemingly had nothing to do with Pakistan or India according to their stated objectives would get the opportunity to speak at the UNHRC and target Pakistan.

In March 2019, during the UNHRC's 40th session, United Schools International (USI), another UN-accredited organisation with direct links to SG, allowed its slot to be used by Yoana Barakova, a research analyst with an Amsterdam-based think-tank called the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS).

Ms Barakova spoke about "atrocities committed by Pakistan" during the session. She told the BBC that EFSAS was a partner with USI and she was "not responsible for organisational logistics". The BBC received no reply when it contacted the director of EFSAS, who also represented USI at the same session to criticise Pakistan.

Vast pro-Indian 'propaganda' network exposed

Outrage over right-wing Euro-MPs' Kashmir visit

India buzzes with fake news of 'civil war' in Pakistan

Fake pro-China accounts exposed

The primary news agency re-packaging and boosting pro-India content related to SG appears to be ANI, established in 1971, which describes itself as "South Asia's leading multimedia news agency, with more than 100 bureaus in India, South Asia and across the globe". Indian news media, especially broadcast media, thrive on content provided by ANI.

EU DisinfoLab found at least 13 instances of ANI re-publishing mostly anti-Pakistan and sometimes anti-China op-eds by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), originally published on EU Chronicle, one of the fake news sites linked to SG.

EU Chronicle was born in May this year when EP Today, a site flagged in the previous disinformation report, was simply discontinued and renamed.

The EU DisinfoLab report said: "The actors behind the operation hijacked the names of others, tried to impersonate regular media such as the EU Observer... used the letterhead of the European Parliament, registered websites under avatars with fake phone numbers, provided fake addresses to the United Nations, created publishing companies to print books of the think-tanks they owned.

"They used layers of fake media that would quote and republish one another. They used politicians who genuinely wanted to defend women or minority rights to ultimately serve geopolitical interests and gave a platform to far-right politicians when convergent objectives could be reached."

Protesters demonstrate against Pakistan outside the UNHRC in Geneva last year

Mr Alaphilippe said the news agency ANI was being used to give legitimacy to the entire "influence operation", which relied "more on ANI than on any other distribution channel" to give it "both credibility and a wide reach to its content".

ANI's news reports have found space in many mainstream Indian news outlets and publishers. Its content was further reproduced on more than 500 fake media websites across 95 countries, the researchers found.

Demonstrations in Europe conducted by organisations linked to the Srivastava Group have also been covered by ANI, as well as by fake media websites linked to SG.

Focus on the EU and UN

According to the findings of the investigation, the disinformation network had a two-pronged strategy to spread influence.

In Geneva, the think-tanks and NGOs were in charge of lobbying and protesting, and taking the floor at the UNHRC on behalf of accredited organisations.

In Brussels, the focus was on the MEPs, who were taken on international trips and solicited to write "exclusive" op-eds for fake outlets like EU Chronicle, which would then be amplified using ANI, the researchers found.

A group of MEPs appear regularly in the investigation. One of them, French MEP Thierry Mariani, has written two op-eds for EU Chronicle and was also part of a controversial visit to Indian-administered Kashmir last year.

"If the Indian government is behind the newspaper [EU Chronicle], it is not my problem," Mr Mariani, a member of France's far-right National Rally, told the BBC.

Organisers and delegation members met Indian PM Narendra Modi during the MEPs' controversial 2019 Kashmir trip

"I sign what I want and I feel, it is my opinion. I have connections in [India's governing] Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and I support the government of [Narendra] Modi," he said.

Two other MEPs named in the report - Angel Dzhambazki from Bulgaria and Grzegorz Tobiszowski from Poland - denied having written op-eds that were published on EU Chronicle.

The articles under their names were also reproduced on ANI.

How to spot a bot

The human cost of 'fake news'

Seven ways to stop bad information

Asked what the EU is doing to fight disinformation networks, EU spokesperson on foreign affairs Peter Stano pointed to the action taken to expose EP Today last year.

"Exposing the disinformation and those who spread it is one of our main instruments," he told the BBC. "We will continue to identify them and call them out."

But he said questions about finances and transparency of NGOs registered in Brussels were for Belgian authorities to answer.

Rolando Gomez, a spokesperson for the UNHRC, told the BBC that it was the prerogative of NGOs to raise whichever issue they wish to address and whoever they grant space to speak on the floor.

"There are no rules stating that an NGO must speak to specific issues. Doing so would amount to infringing on their freedom of speech," Mr Gomez said.

The International Institute of Non-aligned Studies is UN-accredited and openly linked with the Srivastava Group

But the activities of MEPs named in the report prompted criticism from some of their colleagues.

MEP Daniel Freund from the Greens said fellow members needed to declare their activities.

"There have been at least 24 breaches of rules in the past years. Not a single violation has been sanctioned. So there is little incentive to respect the rules when the worst that can happen is to file a declaration after you have been caught," he said.

Another member, who did not want to be named, said MEPs contributing to sites like EU Chronicles had been identified as "election tourists".

"A ragtag group of MEPs from the bottom of the parliamentary barrel who prefer to travel on sponsored trips by unsavoury governments rather than invest in their mandate," the MEP told the BBC. "How PR stunts with such individuals could be even conceived as helpful is baffling."

The BBC put questions to ANI and to nine other MEPs who have written op-eds for the EU Chronicle and made visits to India, Bangladesh and the Maldives, but received no response.

Who are the Srivastavas - and what next?

The investigations from last year and this year show a man called Ankit Srivastava at the centre of the entire global operation that was uncovered. More than 400 domain names have been bought through Mr Srivastava's private email address or through email addresses belonging to his organisations, the EU DisinfoLab investigations found.

The Srivastava office gate, with the Indian Institute for Non-Aligned Studies and New Delhi Times on the right

Then, there's a case of the mysterious SG-owned tech firm Aglaya. Its website has been inaccessible since at least February this year but in the past the company has advertised products for "hacking/spy tools" and "information warfare services".

Aglaya's marketing brochure mentioned the ability to "hamper country level reputations" and described some of its services as "Cyber Nukes". In a 2017 interview with Forbes magazine, a man called Ankur Srivastava claimed he "only sold to Indian intelligence agencies".

It's unclear what relation, if any, he has to Ankit Srivastava.

A third Srivastava appears to be Dr Pramila Srivastava, chairperson of the group and mother of Ankit Srivastava.

Dr Harshindar Kaur, a paediatrician from the Indian state of Punjab, told the EU DisinfoLab researchers that in 2009 she had been invited to the UNHRC in Geneva to give a lecture on female foeticide when she was threatened by a woman called Dr P Srivastava, who claimed to be a "very senior government official from India".

Dr Kaur told the BBC it was Pramila Srivastava who had threatened her.

The BBC emailed Ankit Srivastava asking him to respond to this and the other allegations in the report, but received no reply. When the BBC visited the firm's offices in Delhi's Safdarjung Enclave, staff there would not answer questions.

What might happen to the network, or how it might evolve, in the light of the latest investigation is unclear.

The authors of Indian Chronicles say their findings "should serve as a call to action for decision-makers to put in place a relevant framework to sanction actors abusing international institutions".

Mr Alaphilippe said following the 2019 investigation there had been "no official communication, no sanction, nothing. This passivity gave a message to Indian Chronicles: you've been exposed, but no consequences".

"We think there should be consequences to disinformation and we expect actions to be taken. The biggest failure from institutions would be if another report is released next year on the same actors with the same techniques," he told the BBC.

"This would mean that EU institutions are ok with foreign interference."

2 notes · View notes

fastworldnews1 · 3 years

Text

Pakistan rejects 'baseless Indian allegations of infiltration' across Line of Control

Pakistan on Sunday refuted India's 'baseless' allegations that claimed that it wanted to infiltrate militants along the Line of Control (LoC).

The world is aware of India running a smear campaign against Pakistan, as it had been exposed by the EU DisinfoLab’s report, stated Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"We categorically reject the baseless allegations that Pakistan wanted to infiltrate so-called 'terrorists' via the Line of Control (LoC)," he added.

Questioning the truthfulness of the Indian claims, he wondered how Pakistan could infiltrate militants across the LoC when it was one of the most militarised zones in the world, with over 900,000 Indian security personnel posted there.

Chaudhri added that India has installed layered barbed wire fences, security systems, and electronic surveillance devices, making it impossible for anything to cross the LoC to enter IIOJK.

He turned his guns on India, accusing New Delhi of stoking the flames of terrorism in Pakistan.

"On its part, India has been involved in state-terrorism in IIOJK and against Pakistan. From the Samjhota Express killings of February 2007 to the terrorist blast in Lahore in June 2021, terror incidents targeting Pakistanis have had an Indian hand," Foreign Office stated.

In 2020, Pakistan provided irrefutable evidence of India's involvement in terrorism and patronage, the spokesman said. In February this year, Pakistan urged India to abide by the 2003 ceasefire agreement.

The spokesperson added that India must not use baseless "infiltration attempts as a handy ploy to find excuses to scuttle the ceasefire understanding."

The consequences of India's irresponsible behaviour will not be good for peace and security in the region, the Foreign Office spokesperson concluded.

https://ift.tt/3ywkvtm

#latest news #news #latest #world #fast #technology

0 notes

techrise · 3 years

Text

Resurrection of Non-State Actors Can Help India Win the Information Warfare Battle

Information warfare has become an important aspect in the present world. Both the state and non-state actors have been drawn towards the distinct form of conflict. Information superiority is achieved either by affecting the adversary information, information systems, and computer-based networks while defending one’s information, systems, or networks.

Developed countries like the US, Russia, China, etc. have called information warfare the future warfare domain. The theory could have a huge strategic, operational, political, and legal impact on militaries around the world. Developing countries like India are the most prone on the battlefield of information war. The adversary-sponsored disinformation campaigns, lack of cyber awareness, and heavy penetration of the internet and digital devices have made the situations complex.

Pakistan-propelled information warfare resulted in months of Islamophobia campaigns in India. Such an act prompted wide criticisms from the Middle Eastern countries and influenced India’s foreign relations with Islamic nations. The impact was also visible in the domestic issues – Kashmir and Delhi riots that were aggravated by the disinformation campaigns running on social media sites.

To counter the adversaries’ waging war tactics, India activated its Defence Cyber Agency in 2019. Moreover, it also started taking help from the non-state actors to strengthen its offensive cyber front. India’s 15-year information warfare operation, uncovered by the EU DisinfoLab is one example. Initiated in 2005, the campaign with its 750 fake media outlets, reporting in 119 states aimed at internationally maligning Pakistan.

More than 550 domain names were registered under the operation to create a web of platforms that propagated pro-India news throughout the world. ANI, one of the Indian news platforms, played an important role in the operation termed as ‘Indian Chronicles’. Moreover, the EU DisinfoLab revealed that an Indian firm – Srivastava Group (SG) backed the entire operation promoting content against Pakistan and China and consolidating power for India at the EU and UN.

To make the information warfare look real, minorities, think tanks, human rights NGOs were supported throughout by the networks. At least 10 of the coordinated UN-accredited NGOs that served the Indian interests and defamed Pakistan were directly linked to the SG. Amid the growing state of adversaries’ influence operations in cyberspace, if India had not made use of the private actors to respond to the deceptive headlines, it would have tarnished its global reputation. Hence, SG became an important factor in combating digital-age misinformation.

A recent report by DisinfoLab titled “The Unending War: From Proxy War to Info-War” suggested that Pakistan and Turkey have collaborated to launch information warfare against India. The aim is to combine the anti-India forces and create political instability within the country. The anti-India propaganda is led by Pieter Friedrich, who runs a provocative organisation by the name of Organisation for Indian Minorities (OFIM). As per the report, Friedrich has been working on the K-2 (Kashmir-Khalistan) plan of the Pakistani Intelligence Agency – ISI.

The science of warfare is certainly evolving with the technological evolution and information revolution in the IT industry throughout the world. The Khalistanis, Pakistanis, and the Turks have together waged a war against India in cyberspace. Today, the country needs non-state actors to win the surging internet-based espionage battle.

#EU DisinfoLab #Indian Chronicles #indian cybersecurity #Indian Cyberspace #Indian cyberwarfare #Indian disinformation campaign #Information Warfare #Srivastava Group

0 notes

kalilinux4u · 3 years

Photo

Some of the entities that were targeted in this attack include the US Atlantic Council, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Action Center (ANTAC), the EU DisinfoLab and the Government of Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs. https://t.co/duXJ35EgRf (via Twitter http://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/1399219763272847363)

#EthicalHacking KaliLinux Security Hacking

0 notes

lahoreherald · 3 years

Photo

FM Qureshi Says India turns its Attention away from Internal Problems

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who asked about the participation of New Delhi in the Lahore blast, told India that it is attempting to distract from its own domestic problems through the funding of terrorism in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s FM has stated the country’s funding of terrorism will be shown by India in other places.

“International forums, we’ll highlight this problem,” said FM Qureshi earlier today,

Moeed Yusuf, the national security consultant, claimed Sunday that an Indian person with links to India is the key leader behind the assault, according to the investigation.

“I want to ensure that this specific occurrence on 23 June in Lahore is heard very clearly in our message. We have tangible proof and intelligence, including telephone and money information, which points to these terrorists’ direct Indian backing,” he stated during his briefing.

When questioning Indian Kashmir policies, FM Qureshi claimed that the Kashmiri leaders he met had badly failed and expressed their disappointment in the situation in the occupied territory, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Kazakhstan legislators.

“India has financial difficulty and [the occupied Kashmir] has risen unemployment, and they use that [sponsoring terrorism] to deflect attention from their own problems.”

As for Afghanistan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi stated that in their time of need, Pakistan had assisted its Afghan brothers and it is time for them to come back home.

At the press briefing in Islamabad, NSA Moeed Yusuf told the Indian people about the blast in Johar Town.

“I want to ensure that this specific occurrence on 23 June in Lahore is heard very clearly in our message. We have specific proofs and data, including telephone and bank records, which show that these terrorists are sponsored by India.

“We found that this terrorist assault is being handled mostly by the mastermind and the forensic analysis, and we have no doubts and reserve to notify you that the primary master intelligence is an Indian native, RAW, an intelligence organization located in India,” he added.

Yusuf said he wants to remind everybody that “Indian usage of territories and third-country people is not new, as they humiliate other nations.”

The national security adviser told out that “We have repeatedly recalled the Indian world of activities, including the full dossier published last November with specifics — minute details — of funds, operations, and assistance coming from India.”

He also referred to a report recently published by the internationally renowned EU DisinfoLab that describes how “the hundreds and thousands of fake outlets were used for the malignancy of Pakistan, distributing misinformation on Pakistan and disguising what is a clear terrorist support by a state for a different state in our region.”

Read Also: In a false theft for an Rs10 million insurance claim, a man shoots his wife to death

Published in Lahore Herald #lahoreherald #breakingnews #breaking

#FM Qureshi #Foreign Minister #Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi #funding of terrorism #India #India turns its attention #Lahore blast #raw #Shah Mehmood Qureshi #shah mehmood qureshi statement #Latest #National

0 notes