u/Capable-Estate8851

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Looks like its bleeding into somebody else's chat.

Reading this NDTV article genuinely disgusted me. I wasn’t even looking for Indian media, but that’s the thing: whenever Pakistan does literally anything, their outlets flood every feed with their own spin.

The Punjab government is restoring pre-Partition street names like Ram Gali, Jain Mandir Chowk, and Krishan Nagar as part of a heritage revival project. Half these names never even left everyday speech; the signboards are just catching up.

Yet Indian media somehow turned this into a conspiracy about Pakistan trying to “dodge FATF sanctions and appease the IMF.” The facts don’t even add up. Pakistan exited the FATF grey list in October 2022. FATF deals with anti-money laundering frameworks. The IMF cares about tax reforms and debt servicing. Neither gives a damn what a signboard in Lahore says.

What pissed me off most was how they weaponized Partition. The article mentions how “before Partition, Hindus celebrated Dussehra in Minto Park” to frame 1947 like it was a one-sided tragedy. My grandfather was forced out of Hoshiarpur. He lost his parents and younger brother in the violence, was forced onto a train to Karachi, rebuilt his life from nothing, and carried that trauma forever. Millions of Muslims bled, lost families, homes, and entire worlds too. The audacity of using our shared ancestral tragedy to push a one-sided victim narrative is genuinely sick.

The article even described the lack of backlash to restoring Hindu and Jain names as “surprising,” as if Pakistanis should be expected to riot over signboards. That “surprise” only exists if your entire understanding of Pakistan comes from a propaganda bubble.

They also casually throw around “terror sponsor” rhetoric while Pakistanis themselves are among the biggest victims of terrorism. The Global Terrorism Index 2026 ranked Pakistan as the most impacted country, with over a thousand deaths last year alone. Our civilians, police officers, soldiers, mosques, and markets are constantly targeted by groups like the TTP. Acknowledging Pakistanis as victims, however, would completely ruin their simplistic “us vs. them” narrative.

And speaking of sponsoring terror, India got dragged to the ICJ over Kulbhushan Jadhav, a serving naval officer caught operating under a false identity, financing BLA separatists, and running terror networks inside Balochistan. Peak irony. They built an entire media industry accusing us of exporting terror, while completely looking the other way when they get caught doing the exact same thing.

They lecture us on tolerance while their primetime news pushed fake "thook jihad" conspiracies to breed hatred against Indian Muslims, and their administration in Kashmir raided bookstores to ban academic books by authors like Arundhati Roy and AG Noorani.

But sure, restoring Lahore’s heritage names is the real conspiracy. The projection is honestly just exhausting. I'm tired of it.