RT-Engels: 11-05-2025,
The press is obscuring terrorism as the root cause of the latest flare-up between New Delhi and Islamabad, Kanwal Sibal has told RT
The Western media has been presenting a “distorted” and “one-sided” picture of the latest military standoff between India and Pakistan, former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal has told RT.
On Saturday, the two nuclear powers agreed to a truce following the recent escalation in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack in India’s Jammu and Kashmir federal territory in late April. US President Donald Trump stated that Washington had helped mediate the cessation of hostilities.
Commenting on the developments, Sibal said that New Delhi never had any intention of escalating its limited military operation. He also criticized the US for seeking to “take diplomatic credit” for the truce.
The retired diplomat further lamented the manner in which the escalation was reported by the Western press, which he says gave scant significance to “what caused this in the first place.”
“The attention is being shifted to the larger issues” existing between New Delhi and Islamabad, as opposed to the deadly terrorist attack last month, he argued.
Sibal suggested that the “Western press… totally contort and distort their reporting,” presenting a “very one-sided picture.”
“And somehow they have a very great weakness for Pakistan despite the fact that Pakistan’s links with terror are so well known,” Sibal claimed.