Just when you think Indian media cannot get any lower, they remind you of the same. This time, these official Indian news agencies have made an absurd claim that Pakistan’s First Lady Bushra Bibi doesn’t have a reflection. That’s correct. They don;t think its a joke. They think it’s magic, voodoo and all that jazz.
Realizing how absurd this all is, later the Indian media outlet ANI deleted their story, but screenshots last forever.
Here’s the original story as reported in Indian media:
The news report also stated that the first lady has ‘two full-time working jinns’, who she feeds meat every day. Where do I get me one of those, because its so hard to find good help these days, you know?
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Source of this fake news?
Where did this idea even come from? Unfortunately, reports say that a Pakistani television channel started it. An ill-advised story by all means.
Rather than let bygones be bygones, the Indian media thought that now’s the time to ‘prove that suspicion’. According to ANI, they claimed that ‘officials of the Prime Minister House shared this information.‘
Pakistan's first lady Bushra Bibi's image does not appear in mirrors: PM House staff
Read @ANI story | https://t.co/H5eej6qq6R pic.twitter.com/b4Q17GIWu1
— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) September 29, 2019
Capital TV, on the other hand, denied circulating this news.
Fake News Alert; Indian Media using photoshopped template of Capital TV against PM Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi to promote their propaganda
👉 Details: https://t.co/FrtEjZXoet #CapitalTV #ANI #IndianMedia #FakeNewsAlert @ANI @PTIofficial @ani_digital pic.twitter.com/xEI7GMfjPB
— Capital TV (@CapitalTVLive) September 29, 2019
Capital TV even lodged a complaint with the cyber wing.
This news image circulating on social media is absolutely fake, photoshopped and absurd. #CapitalTV condemns this act of forgery. #CapitalTV will take action and lodge the complaint in #FIA's Cyber-Crime Wing against those who have misused #CapitalTV's branding. pic.twitter.com/6LuweGLSGJ
— Capital TV (@CapitalTVLive) September 30, 2018
Perhaps it’s these series of complaints and the fear of a defamation and misinformation lawsuit that had ANI take down their own story.
Fake news alert; It’s just ridiculous how Indian Media is misusing Capital TV’s logo and disseminating fake news.
Capital TV has never aired such news. It’s photoshopped. Capital TV has already condemned this act of forgery.@TimesNow @ANI @OfficialDGISPR @PakPMO #CapitalTV https://t.co/dG7Zc4qZEq
— Capital TV (@CapitalTVLive) September 29, 2019
Height of irresponsible journalism; Indian news agency tweets photoshopped poster of ‘fake news’ on official Twitter account, using Capital TV’s logo
👉 Details: https://t.co/FrtEjZXoet#CapitalTV #ANI #IndianMedia #FakeNewsAlert @ANI @PTIofficial @ani_digital pic.twitter.com/oIF9M0JvFx
— Capital TV (@CapitalTVLive) September 29, 2019
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Netizens had a field day with this ‘information.’
Ya Allah hum kidr jaa rahi han? Koi ye baath Rizvi ko ja kr battai!!!!
— Iftikhar Khan (@AyubIftikhar) September 29, 2019
She is a vampire.
— Your Muslim Pakistani Pukhtun friend🇵🇸 (@Pkhtn_Pakistani) September 29, 2019
Someone also decided to make a Bhutto reference here:
Bushra bibi is the NEW BHUTTO#bushrabibi pic.twitter.com/GjGupZCqEe
— Munhib Mukhtar (@MunhibKhan1) September 29, 2019
Verification of sources was the most fun part.
PM house ke staff ke mutabiq,
Khatoon awal ka aayeeney mein aqs nahin aata.— Sanjay Pandita (@Sanjay_Pandita) September 29, 2019
The staff must b tripping all the time. 😂
— shumyl (@Shumyl81) September 29, 2019
Other Indian chaps just over-indulged.
Pakistan media denies reporting Bushra Bibi's image not reflecting in mirror, no update on the two meat-eating jinns yet https://t.co/H0BSZRQMG0
— OpIndia.com (@OpIndia_com) September 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/shakkuiyer/status/1178288773282422784
https://twitter.com/RightistSingh/status/1178361825634607104
Well it looks like ANI and other Indian media hit their mark with their target audience. Meanwhile, Pakistanis just enjoyed a laugh.
https://twitter.com/ArmeenaRK/status/1178248791457173504
https://twitter.com/kashmirbnygapak/status/1178249915291623425
All we can say is, another day, another fake news to bust.
It’s simply panic attacks , couselling urgently advised.