Pakistan took journalists on a tour along sanitised villages to project normalcy in PoK.

The Pakistan army took the rare step of flying international media to the Line of Control to sell its side of the story on the surgical strikes at terror camps by India, but failed to prove its denial of the operation during the controlled media tour as it raised more questions on the locations of terror camps.

JOURNALISTS FLOWN IN TO SHOW NORMALCY OF LIFE IN PAKISTAN



Journalists were flown in by helicopters to show that life continues as normal in PoK but the area of the tour appeared to be a restricted, specially sanitized section along the LoC that was specially chosen to project normalcy in its attempt to "counter the impression created by India".

As an international station aired footage, Pakistan's high commission in New Delhi issued the screenshot of the video to project it as a global acknowledgment of Islamabad's claims that no Indian forces swooped down on PoK.

On Sunday, the high commission also released a briefing by the ISPR, the Pakistani army's public-relations wing, to dispute operations by India's Special Forces. In his briefing from PoK, ISPR chief Asim Bajwa bragged about the capabilities of his country's armed forces, calling their defences impregnable.

ACCESS TO STRETCH WITH ONLY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOODS



From material the Pakistani high commission released to the Indian media, it was also not clear why the ISPR chose to display a stretch, which, by its own admission, housed only residential neighbourhoods.

The operation by the Indian forces so far deep inside the territory under its control on the night of September 25 has been a stinging blow to Pakistan establishment. India, however, remained unruffled in the face of Pakistan's media blitz.

Home minister Rajnath Singh had a one-line answer when asked about any plans by New Delhi to release footage of the PoK operations. "Just wait and watch," he quipped.



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