The Indian media is propagating false information against Pakistan toundermine the latter’s efforts in combating money laundering and terrorfinancing.
In a series of tweets, a Twitter user, @TabeshQ, has exposed how India hasused disinformation to decelerate Pakistan’s considerable progressiontoward all the 27 benchmarks set in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)Action Plan.
A few days ago, a new report titled ‘Pakistan Ramps Up its Deception Gameas FATF Deadline Approaches’ was published by the notorious Indian newsagency, Asian News International (ANI).——————————
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The ANI had lost its credibility when EU DisinfoLab had revealed how thewebsite is using hybrid warfare tactics that rely on influencing methodsand the dissemination of fake news to malign Pakistan internationally.
The report that was published on the website quotes a ‘Special Report’ by athinktank called ‘Center of Political and Foreign Affairs’ (CPFA) authoredby ‘Robert Duchemin’. It claims that “Pakistan is pushing a propagandaeffort to convince the FATF to take Islamabad out of grey list”.
This leads to the question of the identity of Robert Duchemin, a writerwith no digital footprint, and no introduction whatsoever.
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The thinktank itself has a suspicious-looking website with no contactinformation or office details. Moreover, there are no regular reports orarticles published on this website except for the report on Pakistan.
According to Daniel S. Hamilton who is the Executive Director of Center forTransatlantic Relations at the John Hopkins School for AdvancedInternational Studies, the President of CPFA, Fabien Baussart, is known inFrance for his close connections with the Kremlin and Russian business.
A supposedly-incognito author has written a deceptive report that has beenpublished in a susceptible thinktank, reported by a non-credible agencythat no one is questioning.
The series of tweets has uncovered this deplorable disinformation campaignrun by the Indian media to weaken Pakistan’s efforts against moneylaundering.
