New Delhi, Jan 24: Left with just a couple of friends in the global community and faced with the grim reality of finding no takers for its propaganda at international fora, Pakistan is now eyeing Turkey as a launchpad for its anti-India campaign. Urging Turkish media to focus on Kashmir and build a narrative against India is one such step taken recently by the Imran Khan government.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported earlier this week that Pakistan has asked the media in Turkey to “play their role” in spotlighting various issues related to Kashmir.
It quoted Pakistani politician Shehryar Afridi, who serves as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Special Committee on Kashmir, as saying that his government is “employing modern media tools to protect the heritage of Kashmir”.
Afridi was speaking in Islamabad during the launch of a ‘Turkey Urdu’ website on Thursday, an event which was also attended by Mustafa Yurdakul, the Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan.
Emphasizing that the “hearts of Turks and Pakistanis beat for each other”, Yurdakul assured the audience that the “Turkish media is available to Pakistan to present its good image abroad”.
It wouldn’t be for the first time the Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan lends a helping hand to Pakistan.
Erdogan, while addressing a joint session of the Pakistani Parliament for a record fourth time last year, had likened the “struggle” of the Kashmiris with that of his country in World War I against the foreign domination. (IANS)
