Pakistan and China are allies but there should be limits to what a respected newspaper can publish just to please Beijing. “The Express Tribune” does qualify as a respected English-language newspaper in Pakistan. It is published by the large conglomerate Lawson Group and is even in a partnership with the international edition of “The New York Times,” the only Pakistani publication to enjoy such status.
Yet, on April 13, it published an op-ed piece whose title seemed to refer to tourism but was in fact misleading: “Magnificent Xinjiang: Unique Prosperity on the Ancient and Modern Silk Road.” The author was Yang Yundong. Nowhere in the article was specified that Yang is in fact China’s Consul-General in Karachi.
Read more at “Mainline Newspaper Ridicules Itself by Spreading Chinese Propaganda on Xinjiang”
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