CRISIS PERCEPTION ON CPEC: HOW INDIA IS USING REGIONAL AND PAKISTAN’S DOMESTIC ISSUES IN MANUFACTURING GLOBAL PSEUDO DISCOURSE

Abstract

India is trying to create misperceptions against Pakistan at the international level through an information campaign as revealed by European Union DisinfoLab. The main aim behind Indian information operation is to discredit CPEC at the domestic as well as global level. To explore this, based on the secondary data, the paper considers the issues related to Pakistan’s domestic and regional politics. The crisis perception model of Billings et al. is employed as a theoretical framework. The findings of the study reveal that if the situation of crisis perception will prevail at the global scale, it could significantly influence the cost of the project; the perceived probability of the loss could be in the form of human loss and security situation in Balochistan. Moreover, it is need of time to sense the crisis perception based on contributory factors and magnitude, define these factors as the crisis which indicates the significant extent of the crisis perception prevails at global perception. Pakistan must solve these issues indigenously which need dialogue or security enforcement. However, on a global scale, Pakistan and China must coordinate and allocate a certain percentage of funds and human resource to counter the false perception created by the Indian deep dive operation against CPEC and Pakistan.

Bibliography Entry

Shah, Mudassar Hussain, Saima Kausar and Danish Sarwar. 2022. "Crisis Perception on CPEC: How India is Using Regional and Pakistan’s Domestic Issues in Manufacturing Global Pseudo Discourse." NDU Journal 36: 38-49.