Pakistan slams India's bid to deny responsibility for disinformation campaign.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has rejected the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)'s bid to deny responsibility for the disinformation campaign against Pakistan, saying that international exposes clearly demonstrate that India is neither "responsible" nor a "democracy".

"The MEA's tall claims have no legs to stand on," said a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

An expose by EU DisinfoLab has shown in detail the web of more than 750 media in 116 countries; over 550 website domain names registered; resurrection of dead people; impersonation of EU institutions and direct control of more than 10 NGOs accredited to the UN Human Rights Council, utilized for the purpose of pushing fake news and false Indian propaganda against Pakistan since 2005.

The Foreign Office said that "extensive and irrefutable evidence of India's active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and executing terrorist activities in Pakistan" was already shared.

The report by the independent, non-profit disinformation watchdog further corroborates Pakistan's long-held position about "India's incurable obsession with Pakistan and its unrelenting smear campaign against Pakistan", it added.

The statement reiterated Pakistan's urgent request to the UN Human Rights machinery, in particular the Human Rights Council (HRC) to probe how the platform was misused in such a manner against a member state.

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