By Sushil Kutty
Barack Obama once said “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” The other day an ex-Pentagon official hit out at terror-sponsor Pakistan and likened Pakistan to a pig, alluding that no amount of lipstick will make a difference to Pakistan’s image!
Question is, did the ISI use Pakistani and Indian YouTubers to use “lipstick on pig” to convert the image of Pakistan in the world’s eye?
But before that, did Pakistan plot and execute “Pahalgam”? Pictures of the gloating perpetrators have infested the Internet. The terrorists, who shot dead 26 ‘Hindu men’, left “wives and children” alive “to tell Modi”. One Muslim was also killed but his count was lost in the telling.
Thing to note after the killings is that a Hindu is a Hindu is a Hindu, just like a pig is a pig is a pig, an animal that doesn’t garner likes in Pakistan, which says ‘Pahalgam’ was a false-flag operation that India orchestrated.
Pakistani experts say Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir cannot be blamed for ‘Pahalgam’, just because he stood firm with Jinnah’s two-nation theory. Gen. Munir wants Pakistani children to know the difference between Hindu and Muslim. No amount of lipstick will stick on Gen. Asim Munir, his thinking is linear, just like the general’s baton he carries with him.
Ex-Pentagon official Michael Rubin says Osama lived in a cave and Gen. MunirAsim in a palace, the only difference between the two and that nobody can dress up a sow! Lipstick on Gen. Munir won’t change him and this was perhaps the first time Pakistanis heard of lipstick on a pig!
Very recently there was an attempt to put lipstick on Pakistan, impart to Pakistan a different image, a nicer image; correct the prevalent distortion. It involved roping Pakistani YouTubers with tremendous followings among Hindu Indians! This lot of Pakistani YouTubers could do the trick for ‘Op lipstick on Pig’, it would be just a matter of indoctrination!
Like YouTuber Shoaib Chaudhary, with over 1.70 million “Indian subscribers”, he was earmarked for indoctrination. Shoaib earned in “dollars” and, off and on, Shoaib would pile up polythene packs of “atta-dal” in a tempo and distribute the largesse to the poor Pakistani!
Shoaib had company: mostly young Pakistani housewives, also earning “dollars” by praising Narendra Modi and his “Hindutva policies on YouTube!” Then, just like that, these YouTubers “vanished.”
The “reels” stopped. This was two months before Gen. Munir resurrected the “two-nation theory”. Afghanistan YouTuber Pathanbhai noticed the disappearance first and uploaded a “reel” claiming that “Shoaib and Sana Ahmed” had been “hanged to death” for the pro-Modi “reels.”
Indian television media picked up the “hangings” and Pakistani “journalist” Arzoo Kazmi claimed on Indian TV that she too had got a “letter” asking her to present herself “before the FIA in Islamabad”, which she refused to do.
Then, to everybody’s surprise, Shoaib and Sana, and Naila-Shaila and Ribaha, returned “from the hanged”, back to making “reels for dear viewers”, their Indian subscribers moved to tears! But there was a difference: The “reels” no longer sang Modi’s praise. Instead, his policies were questioned as were his bold actions.
Indian YouTubers with “expertise” in defence and diplomacy were invited as “guests” to the YouTube channels of those who had “returned from the dead.” It was Naila who let the cat out of the bag: “My software was updated when I was missing from the scene!”
In other words, the vanished were indoctrinated. They came back with DG-ISPR handlers ‘Mian Asif Ali’, ‘Muzaffar Chowdhury’ and “Maj Raza”, who became active participants in the “debates” they held with Indian Youtubers.
The topics reflected the interests of the Pakistani establishment. Lots of reels were made on the “Waqf”, “Bangladesh” and “Hindu-Muslim.” Mian Asif Ali and “Major Raza” were keen to know the “Muslim population growth” in India and in Kashmir, the demographic changes in Kashmir after the “abrogation of Article 35”, and “why secular India is so patently communal?”
Was Gen Munir’s stress on “two-nation theory” a pointer to what was coming to Pahalgam? There’s a sneaking feeling that Pakistan’s DG-ISPR had mounted an ‘Op Lipstick on Pig’ and Indian subscribers and Indian YouTubers still haven’t caught on to the ISI game.
Pakistan Army’s DG-ISPR used Pakistani YouTubers and their huge numbers of Indian subscribers to mine information and data and mount what looked like an “Op Lipstick on a Pig” to improve the image of the Pakistan Army. Importantly, Indian YouTubers and Indian subscribers of Pakistani YouTubers still can’t resist the lure of alabaster-skinned Pakistani honey-traps!” Like Barack Obama said “you can put lipstick on a pig, but a pig is still a pig.” (IPA Service)
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