Just before dawn on May 7, a calculated Indian air strike trembled with terrorist camps inside the Pakistani territory. While New Delhi underlined the surgical precision of its mission, through the border, chaos has spread on screens and deadlines, while the Pakistani media and social influencers have painted a very different image. What followed was not only a military confrontation, but a digital attack – a campaign orchestrated with disinformation and psychological warfare aimed at shaping global perception.
The precision air strike of India, intended to dismantle imminent terrorist threats, sparked an immediate propaganda war against Pakistani social media. While Indian officials stressed that the operation only targeted non -state terrorist infrastructure, Pakistani reports accused India of civilian victims, saying that a 15 -year -old girl died and 29 others injured when a school area was struck. These statements remain not verified by independent observers.
Social platforms in Pakistan were quickly flooded with videos and images supposed to show the consequences of the strike. However, many have proven to be recycled or misleading, emphasizing a coordinated attempt to mislead the public and international community. The facts of facts have reported several messages as a disinformation, with content ranging from obsolete images to completely unrelated images.
A focal point of the campaign was the Rafale fighter planes of India. Considered in Pakistan as symbols of Indian air superiority, gusts have become targets of false affirmations. The positions suggested that these jets were intercepted or slaughtered, despite the lack of credible evidence. This story was apparently designed to erode the perceived military edge of India and inflate the defensive capacities of Pakistan.
The media in Pakistan also launched a counterattack against the Indian media, accusing them of exaggerating the success of the strike and spreading lies on its scope. The Pakistani commentators insisted that India had missed high value objectives and struck locations without consequences, trying to crop the event as a propaganda cascade sloppy by New Delhi.
Intensating more information war, influencers based in Pakistan have promoted stories loaded with emotion struck on civil areas. These positions, emphasizing alleged attacks on schools, were manufactured to supervise India as a violer of international standards and human rights. Although no Indian drones have been reported, social media stations glorified Pakistan’s military response, claiming full control over its airspace.
India, on the other hand, argued that its objective was limited: targeting terrorist groups and not civilians or state infrastructure. Indian defense sources have also rejected the non-verified Pakistani allegations of reprisals in the Indian territories, saying that such attempts have been thwarted by air defense systems, including S-400.
With simmer tensions and no confirmed violation of Indian airspace, the incident exposed the in -depth dependence of digital psyches as a tool of modern conflict. The Blitz of Pakistan’s social media, aimed at reassuring and global sympathy, underlined a wider scheme of use of disinformation to compensate for strategic and technological gaps.
