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During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, when the Pakistani Army was beginning to succumb to the bravery and attacks of the Indian soldiers and its defeat was clearly visible to it, a strange psychological and propaganda campaign was carried out to suppress the outcry and public anger within the country. In order to keep the people of Pakistan away from the bitter and real reality of the battlefield, the government and government machinery there had started creating one too many fabricated, unrealistic and sensational stories. The main objective of these false stories was only to hide the failure of our army and strategic failure, so that the morale of the common citizens is not broken and they remain ignorant of the truth. The layers of dramatic and ridiculous propaganda that was carried out within Pakistan during those difficult days of the war are now being exposed openly from the pages of history.
During the 1965 war, the Indian Armed Forces had displayed indomitable courage and fighting skills and had defeated the Pakistani Army, due to which the Pakistani military leadership had begun to disintegrate. Pakistan had hoped that it would easily achieve victory by suddenly attacking India, but the Indian Army shattered their pride within a few days and inflicted a crushing defeat on the enemy on the Lahore and Sialkot fronts. When the Pakistani army and tank regiments started leaving the field and the news of continuous defeat of soldiers from the battlefield started reaching Islamabad, then the rulers there lost their sleep. There was a fear that if the public came to know the real truth, there could be a coup or a terrible rebellion in the country, hence it was considered extremely important to weave a big web of lies to confuse the public.
In order to emotionally fool the general public of Pakistan and people associated with religious sentiments in the name of war, the most dangerous and strange rumors were spread during that period, one of the main stories of which was that the Prophet himself and the angels of heaven have come to the battlefield for Jihad. This propaganda was spread through the government machinery and sponsored clerics that the Pakistani army is not fighting alone, but invisible forces and the spiritual army of the Prophet are helping Pakistan from the sky against the Indian soldiers. The deliberate strategy behind these false and sensational stories was that when people would get carried away by religious sentiments, they would forget to question their army’s defeat, lack of weapons and strategic mistakes. Such superstitions and fanatical claims pushed Pakistani society into an imaginary world far away from reality, where every defeat was presented as a miracle.
The action of the brave pilots and tanks of the Indian Air Force which caused huge destruction had created such fear in the Pakistani Army that the soldiers started running away from the front, and to overcome this, strange stories were created. When Indian fighter planes bombed Lahore and other border areas, panic spread among the Pakistani people, to suppress which a rumor was spread that the engines of Indian jet planes were failing in front of Pakistani spiritual forces. Moreover, during the war it was also propagated that the enemy forces were out of ammunition and were going to surrender on their own in just a few hours, whereas the ground reality was quite the opposite. Historians confirm that this psychological warfare and propaganda by Pakistan in the 1965 war was the biggest betrayal it did to its own citizens, which ultimately never allowed it to accept the truth of its own failures.