ISLAMABAD: (Parliament Times) Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan says Pakistani media has the ingenuity and
sophistication to depict and project the country in its true
perspective.
Addressing a media workshop at National Defence University in
Islamabad on Friday, he said it is imperative in view of the fact
that India is using dexterity of its media prowess to project
Pakistan as a state sponsoring terrorism and fueling extremism.
The AJK President said media's role becomes crucial not only
because of India factor but also because Pakistan has opted to be
a major nation in the comity of nations.
Referring to CPEC, he said Pakistan would be both a conduit
and a destination for commerce, industry and services.
He pointed out that Kashmiris in Occupied Kashmir are most
unarmed on the earth yet Indian media is trying to depict them
as militants and terrorists.
He said that over the decades, to deal with existential threats to
its security, Pakistan has developed nuclear capability that
builds a firewall of defence around it. He said that Pakistan, without a doubt, is on the cusp of an
economic revolution. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
acts as a catalyst as Pakistan emerges as a regional and
international hub for investment. In the years to come, Pakistan
would be both a conduit and a destination for commerce,
industry and services.
“We have not yet been able to realize the right to self-
determination of the people of Jammu of Kashmir. India's
intransigence is the biggest factor, no doubt. It is a tragedy of
our times that Kashmiris in the IOK are being killed brutally
and systematically in their own land by foreign occupation
forces; and yet India’s media machine, broadcasting the official
narrative, projects these unarmed, non-combatants as militants
and terrorists, and this skewed version has traction in the worldâ€,he added.