{"id":8339,"date":"2016-12-26T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T04:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8339"},"modified":"2016-12-26T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T04:02:33","slug":"fake-news-leads-pak-defence-minister-issue-nuke-threat-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8339","title":{"rendered":"Fake news leads Pak defence minister to issue &#8216;nuke threat to Israel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>New York:<\/strong> Pakistan&#8217;s defense minister threatened Israel that his country could use nuclear weapons after a fake news report that his Israeli counterpart had threatened &#8220;nuclear retaliation&#8221; for Islamabad&#8217;s role in Syria against ISIS, highlighting the serious problem proliferation of fake news poses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A report in the New York Times said a fake news story prompted Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif to threaten to go nuclear. In a post on Twitter, Asif lashed at Israel after a false report \u2014 which the minister apparently believed \u2014 that Israel had threatened Pakistan with nuclear weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;Israeli def min threatens nuclear retaliation presuming pak role in Syria against Daesh,&#8221; the minister wrote on his official Twitter account, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. &#8220;Israel forgets Pakistan is a Nuclear state too.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The NYT report said Asif appeared to be reacting to the fake news article published on awdnews.Com, which was titled &#8216;Israeli Defense Minister: If Pakistan send ground troops to Syria on any pretext, we will destroy this country with a nuclear attack&#8217;.The article had appeared on the website on December 20, alongside articles with headlines like &#8216;Clinton is staging a military coup against Trump&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The fake story about Israel even misidentified the country&#8217;s defence minister, attributing quotations to a former minister, Moshe Yaalon. Israel&#8217;s current minister of defence is Avigdor Lieberman. The Israeli Defence Ministry responded on Twitter to say the report was fictitious.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The statement attributed to fmr Def Min Yaalon re Pakistan was never said,&#8221; the ministry wrote in Twitter post directed at Asif.The Israeli ministry added in a second post: &#8220;Reports referred to by the Pakistani Def Min are entirely false.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: Pakistan&#8217;s defense minister threatened Israel that his country could use nuclear weapons after a fake news report that his Israeli counterpart had threatened &#8220;nuclear retaliation&#8221; for Islamabad&#8217;s role in Syria against ISIS, highlighting the serious problem proliferation of fake news poses. A report in the New York Times said a fake news story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}