NEW DELHI: India’s National Cyber Security chief has admitted the superiority of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in the narrative warfare.
National Cyber Security Coordinator Lieutenant General (retired) Rajesh Pant said the three wings of the Indian armed forces have their own public relations officers go in different directions. He stressed the need for a unified public relations command for the three wings of the armed forces.
“When are we going to have our own equivalent of the DGISPR because the (Indian armed forces) services have their own PRs and they are going in different ways. Somebody at the national level now has to look at the narrative warfare and how to implement it in various domains,” he said.
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Rajesh Pant praised media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces and acknowledged that Pakistan has got its act together through the ISPR. “What we are finding from the other side – from the western border – that since the time they have created the DGISPR, they have got their act together,” he added.
Pant added, “When they (DGISPR) conduct narrative warfare, let’s say in the case of Kashmir, the message they send to Europe is that human rights are being infringed.”
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“While when they engage with Islamic nations they tell them that Islam is under threat, noted Pant, adding, “What they told Southeast Asia is that there is a regional instability,” said Pant. “So, they seem to have got their act together,” he concluded.
He said that it is important to clarify what the three services of Indian armed forces imply and mean by ‘information warfare’. “They should come out with the definition because now they are using the terms like ‘narrative warfare’,” he said.
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