New Delhi: India on Wednesday hit out at Chinese media outlet Global Times regarding its coverage of ‘Operation Sindoor’ — the military strikes launched on terrorist infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). While slamming the site, India asked the portal to “verify facts and cross-examine your sources before pushing out this kind of dis-information”.
According to Global Times, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) had reportedly “shot down another Indian fighter jet in response to overnight airstrikes carried out by India at multiple locations in Pakistan”, while citing “sources from the Pakistani military”.
Global Times had said: “This is the third Indian fighter jet that has been shot down in response to the overnight strikes, said the military sources: Xinhua.”
In a strong response, the official handle of the Embassy of India in Beijing said in a series of posts on social media platform X, “Dear @globaltimesnews, we would recommend you verify your facts and cross-examine your sources before pushing out this kind of dis-information.”
‘Spreading baseless claims’
In another post, it said: “Several pro-Pakistan handles are spreading baseless claims in the context of #OperationSindoor, attempting to mislead the public. When media outlets share such information without verifying sources, it reflects a serious lapse in responsibility and journalistic ethics.”
In other posts, the Indian embassy in Beijing said, “@PIBFactCheck had brought to light instances of fake news with old images showing crashed aircrafts being re-circulated in various forms in the current context of #OperationSindoor. While one is from an earlier incident involving an Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-29 fighter jet that crashed in Rajasthan in September 2024, the other is an IAF MiG-21 fighter jet from Punjab in 2021.”
The Indian embassy also said, “On April 22, 2025, Pakistani and Pakistan-trained terrorists belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a savage terror attack on Indian tourists at Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir in India. They targeted a particular community by asking people to identify themselves by their religion and murdered 26 people, including one national of Nepal, causing the largest number of civilian casualties in a terrorist attack in India since the 26 November 2008 attacks in Mumbai.”
