Social media is abuzz with news accusing Pakistan of threatening to nuke Israel in response to a news published by a German-own website (www.awdnews.com) quoting the former Israeli defence minister Moshe Yaalon as saying that Israel will nuke Pakistan if it sends ground troops to Syria.
The reaction from Pakistan came from Defence Minister Kh Asif, who tweeted Friday: “Israeli def min threatens nuclear retaliation presuming Pak role in Syria against Daesh. Israel forgets Pakistan is a nuclear state too”
Israel’s defence ministry tweeted back Saturday, saying the original story on the site AWD News was “never said” and is “entirely false”.
The social media and news media is blaming Pakistan for reacting to the www.wednews.com report which was false or fake.
Interestingly, the news media did not question who planted such a report? Who was behind this serious story? It is simply saying that the report was fake and it was foolish on part of Pakistan to respond to this news.
It is a common knowledge that the so-called “fake” news is an important material which cannot be swept away as it plays an important role in forming public opinion which we witnessed during the last November presidential election.
The Washington Post reported on November 24 that “fake” news played an important role in the last presidential election: “The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation”.
Hence, the basic question remains who was behind planting this serious news on this German website. Pakistan cannot be blamed for responding to this “fake” news.
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