Pakistan’s Digital Deception After Operation Sindoor

In light of India’s successful Operation Sindoor, which effectively crippled important air bases in Pakistan, a new front has been opened - not on the battlefield, but on the digital landscape. With no credible military response available, Pakistan has resorted to its own familiar playbook: a mass misinformation campaign designed to obfuscate the truth, distort the public's perceptions, and spin a false narrative of success.

- BY VIVEK KOUL

When the Indian strike was over, social media in Pakistan was deluged with reports of a large counterstrike that caused harrowing destruction to India. None of these reports were verified, and by narrative, video “evidence” claiming the Indian military suffered casualties or infrastructure was either known older footage from other wars, or miscellaneous extracts from world events, or even, moving images taken from video games and stitched together by a technologist/model making a news montage. The invented reports also claimed Pakistan air force achieved destroy additional Indian jets and destroyed air bases in Rajasthan and Punjab and even breached Indian radar systems and created a jamming device interrupting Indian communications. These falsehoods were accompanied by celebratory hashtags and posts claiming a decisive Pakistani victory, attempting to boost domestic moraie after the loss of strategic air power. The reality, however, paints a very different picture. Independent defense analysts and satellite imaging companies such as Maxar and StratFor confirmed the destruction of Pakistani air assets and the absence ofany retaliatory strikes on Indian soil. Not a single credible report has indicated any damage to Indian military or civilian targets. Indian Air Force squadrons returned safely with zero losses. Radar logs, air traffic control data, and live monitoring confirmed that the operation was executed with high precision and efficiency. Moreover, high-resolution satellite images released by both Indian and international agencies clearly show the obliteration of aircraft hangars, fuel depots, and control towers at Murid, Masro