Media Rhetoric as a Role Player in The Indo Pak Relations

Abstract

The Earth became a global village just about when mankind understood the importance of becoming a connected and well knit society. What made it possible to achieve that rapid communication was what we know as media, which can be very simply defined as the primary way that people shared information and/or entertained themselves. Whether or not, now the phenomenon remains same, is questionable, but what is evidently clear is how in the world of international relations, information and data have become core factors of determining the image of a nation, specifically because media is so widespread in the forms of broadcast, social, print and digital, wherein it is considered to have a pivotal role in shaping narratives and feeding into mindsets so eloquently, which had never been explored nor exploited by the previous governments as seen now, especially for the ever present Indo Pak relations. The game of hegemonic survival in IR no longer demands the use of traditional defenses but also global isolation drafted as a consequence of specific blackwashing of one another, over different media outlets as highlighted by this paper. While it may appear to have been a battle lost, based on psychological grounds, in reality it has only added to the already existing challenges for nations to now also be vigilante in unexplored media trajectories and in the art of 5th generation warfare finesse.