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'Serious lapse in journalistic ethics': India schools Chinese media for spreading misinformation over Operation Sindoor

'Serious lapse in journalistic ethics': India schools Chinese media for spreading misinformation over Operation Sindoor

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Trending | India News | Global Times reportedly used outdated images of crashed aircraft to misrepresent recent events tied to India's Operation Sindoor, sparking misinformation concerns.

India schooled the Chinese state media on Wednesday (May 7) after Operation Sindoor in which India struck nine terror sites in PoK and Pakistan.

Global Times had run reports using old images of crashed aircraft in the context of Operation Sindoor, as part of which India launched 24 precision missile strikes in nine locations that were identified as hubs of terrorist activity.

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"Dear Global Times, we would recommend you verify your facts and cross-examine your sources before pushing out this kind of disinformation," the Indian embassy in China said on the social media paltfrom X.

"Several pro-Pakistan handles are spreading baseless claims in the context of Operation Sindoor, attempting to mislead the public. When media outlets share such information without verifying sources, it reflects a serious lapse in responsibility and journalistic ethics," it added.

"Allow us to bring to your knowledge facts of the issue. On April 22, 2025, Pakistani and Pakistan-trained terrorists belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a savage terror attack on Indian tourists at Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir in India. They targeted a particular community by asking people to identify themselves by their religion and murdered 26 people, including one national of Nepal, causing the largest number of civilian casualties in a terrorist attack in India since the November 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai," the Indian embassy added.

Pakistan circulates false claims after Operation Sindoor

AfterIndia'smilitary strike on nine terror sites under Operation Sindoor in POK and Pakistan, a pool of misinformation has emerged from Pak media and its government in the aftermath of the strike by India on Wednesday (May 7). Many of the social media handles of Pakistan has falsely claimed that Pakistan had retaliated by launching missile strikes at 15 locations inside India.Some even claimed that Srinagar Airbase had been hit by the Pakistan Air Force and that an Indian Army Brigade Headquarters hadbeen destroyed.

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