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Pakistan Threatens Nuclear Attack On Israel
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fake news story apparently prompted Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja
Asif to threaten Israel with nuclear destruction. More. Concern about
the effects of fake news racheted up a notch Sunday with a tweet from
Pakistan's defense minister threatening ...
| Yahoo News | - |
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fake news story apparently prompted Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja
Asif to threaten Israel with nuclear destruction. More. Concern about
the effects of fake news racheted up a notch Sunday with a tweet from
Pakistan's defense minister threatening ...
Pakistan Threatens Nuclear Attack On Israel
A fake news story apparently prompted Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif to threaten Israel with nuclear destruction.
Concern
about the effects of fake news racheted up a notch Sunday with a tweet
from Pakistan’s defense minister threatening nuclear war with Israel on
the mistaken belief Israel’s defense minister had threatened Pakistan if
it sent troops to Syria.
Fake news has been credited with contributing to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Now a typo-riddled fictitious story
on AWD News was posted last Tuesday quoting former Israeli Defense
Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Israel’s current defense minister is Avigdor
Lieberman) as saying he would “destroy” Pakistan prompted a response
Saturday from Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, threatening
nuclear retaliation.
The
Pakistan Defense Ministry said Pakistan would retaliate against any
nation that threatened it but pointed out Asif was reacting to a fake
story.
The Israeli Defense Ministry responded to Asif, saying Ya’alon never made the threat and called the AWD report false.
There was no subsequent response from Pakistan, but Asif was being criticized on Twitter for being taken in.
Israel has remained neutral in the nearly 7-year-old Syrian civil war.
The fact-checking site Snopes.com has said AWD has a record of promoting conspiracy theories and fake news. Among its fact-free scoops was a story alleging King Abdullah of Jordan had killed his wife in a Rome hotel room for having an affair. It also claimed the CIA tried to assassinate Trump.
Israel
is believed to have had nuclear capability since the 1960s but never
has acknowledged it. It has said it would not be the first country to
“introduce” nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Pakistan became a
nuclear power in 1998. Neither country has signed the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, nor do they have diplomatic relations.
Pakistan has previously threatened India with a nuclear attack.
Fake
news has proliferated on social media, even leading a North Carolina
man to open fire on a Washington pizza restaurant Dec. 4, saying he was
investigating an alleged child sex slave ring linked to Hillary Clinton
operating from the restaurant. Edgar Welch, 28, is under federal indictment and could face five years in prison for firing multiple shots at the Comet Ping Pong restaurant. No one was injured.
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