Portrayal of Involvement of Foreign Intelligences in Talibanization in Pakistan

Abstract

The research on foreign intelligence agencies regarding involvement in Talibanization is a content analysis-based study of two news dailies. The news reports showed that the Taliban have unconstructive portrayal and the overall reflection was clearly a downbeat. Most of the news items reflected that Talibans stimulated terrorism and extremism. This study exposed point of view of English newspapers i.e., The News and The Nation. These newspapers portrayed negative side of Talibanization. News stories of these two newspapers from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2013 had been selected for research. Almost 730 copies of two newspapers were studied. The researcher found 226 news stories related to the topic. Newspapers more or less illustrated that foreign intelligence agencies were involved in funding Talibanization and this phenomenon deteriorating law and order situation and fanning terrorism in Pakistan. According to two English newspapers in the whole study TTP exposed as a major organ of terrorism which was playing proxy war on the behalf of foreign players.