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NEW DELHI: India is reeling from the death of 26 tourists in a terrorist attack in Pahalgam. Four terrorists masquerading in army camouflage descended from the mountain and opened fire on tourists at the Baisaran Hill Station in Pahalgam on April 22. 'The Resistance Front', which is affiliated with Lashkar, claimed responsibility for the attack.
It has been reported that Pakistani nationals Asif Fauji, Sulaiman Shah, and Abu Talha carried out the attack. Amidst the pain came the dubious reporting of the Kashmir terror attacks in Western media, which was appalling by all standards. Major Western media outlets such as the BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, CNN, France 24, and Reuters showed apprehension in calling out the 'terrorist attack' despite the Lashkar outfit claiming responsibility.
The Western media labelled the terrorists who attacked Pahalgam as 'gunmen' and 'militants' while some described the Pahalgam horror as a shooting incident. This raises doubts about the media's wider ploy to ride along with their devious narrative of Kashmir as an integral part of Pakistan, but not India. Following the Pahalgam attack, world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, expressed their full support for India.
Trump wrote on social media that he stands firmly with India against terrorism. Even China condemned the attack, stating that it strongly opposes terrorism. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also expressed her deep sorrow over the terrorist attack in India.
The French President Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz later followed suit. Despite the posse of world leaders acknowledging the terrible attack in Pahalgam and unabashedly calling it a terrorist attack, the Western media held on to their unwavering stance to suit their narrative on Kashmir. The British media outlet ‘The Guardian’ addressed the Pahalgam terrorists as ‘suspected militants'.
Such distortion from the legacy media is only reserved for Kashmir? When Hamas launched an attack on Israel, all US media outlets called it a terrorist attack. Something dastardly of the same magnitude happens in India; they call it a suspected militant attack. The real suspect is your journalistic standards.
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