Telling Pakistan that Saeed was directing Islamic State attacks inside Afghanistan, and that he is not to be confused with the Hafiz Saeed of Velayat Khorasan who was recently killed in Afghanistan.Adolf Hitler is quoted as having written: “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed”. This was echoed by John F Kennedy who quoted Hitler as having said, “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth”. China mastered this art completely, one example being the sustained campaign of the so called “Peaceful Rise of China”, whereas its rise has consistently been most violent. China’s protégé Pakistan has not lagged behind either.
Meet a Pakistani and he will tell you that Pakistan won the 1965 India-Pakistan War; oblivious of the enormous graveyard of Pakistani tanks and the territory lost (including the strategic Hajipir Pass and the adjoining mountain massifs.Ayub Khan is worshipped in Pakistan for having won the 1965 war. For that matter, the Pakistani public is unaware that Pakistan’s Qaid-e-Azam post, located at a height of 6,500 metres (the highest post on the Saltoro Range in the Siachen Glacier area) was captured by India in 1987 and renamed Bana Post. Pakistani tourists and correspondents on the Pakistani side continue to be shown some peak from a distance and told that it is the Qaid-e-Azam post, which is held by Pakistan. In fact, in the mid-1990s, a Pakistani captain who leaked information about the loss of the Qaid-e-Azam post to the media had to face a court martial and was cashiered out of service.