Fmr Pak HC Abdul Basit says he got Shoba De to write an article calling for plebiscite in Kashmir

Foreign intelligence, embassies develop influential writers, editors, media houses, think tanks etc to plant stories, write favourable articles to develop public opinion. May or may not be for money for those who write. Sometimes it’s ideological reasons.

KGB got thousands of articles planted in Indian newspapers during the 70s/80s. Arabs today fund leading western think tanks who write favourable stuff for them. Pak too has good penetration in west. So the coverage in western media on Kashmir is always anti India