Digital propaganda under Taliban regime |
ENEMIES of Pakistan are blatantly using propaganda tools to create wedge between the masses and the state institutions.
An insightful study by the Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR) at the University of Lahore has exposed an Afghan magazine Al-Mirsad as propaganda platform controlled by Taliban’s covert arms involved in targeting the Pakistan.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has noted that Al-Mirsad is funded and run by the media wing of GDI, linked to key figures of Taliban ruling regime. Magazine constructs a false ideological binary, portraying Pakistan as anti-Islamic and illegitimate state while portraying the Taliban as defenders of faith. Platform repeatedly distorts Islamic concepts to justify terrorism, depicts militant violence as religious duty, and demonizes CT efforts of Pakistan.
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