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­Dawn’s discourses on perpetual Indo-Pakistan enmity

Mukesh Devrari  Abstract   This study is a thematic analysis of columns and editorials published in the opinion pages of Dawn during India’s general elections 2019 to find out how Pakistan’s elite media represents India as a perpetual adversary. It finds out that Dawn’s op-ed pages characterize India as a permanent security threat, destabilizing force, propagandist state, and dominating power conspiring with the United States to harm the interests of Pakistan and China. It also reveals that news columns and editorials consistently claim that Indian media indulges in warmongering, rising Hindu nationalism, and non-state actors contribute to the hostility in both nations. Finally, it notes that Dawn’s Op-ed pages describe India with the state lens in geopolitics and global power structure, mostly magnifying the state’s perspective instituted mainly by the security establishment.   (Keywords –Indo-Pakistan enmity, Dawn , media representation, media & conflict, thematic analysis)   In
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Thematic analysis of the representation of Kashmir conflict in Dawn

Mukesh Devrari       Abstract     Indo-Pakistan relations are troubled primarily due to their conflict over the region of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) since the partition of British India in 1947. The Kashmir conflict is considered one of the world’s most intractable and complicated bilateral disputes, where both countries are reluctant to change their historical positions. This study aims to find out how Kashmir conflict with India has been discussed, debated & represented in one of Pakistan’s most prominent English language newspaper Dawn. It uses thematic analysis approach and relies on paragraph-based coding in the NVivo software to examine the various aspects of representation of Kashmir conflict in the opinion pages of Dawn during India’s general elections in 2019. This study underlines that Dawn firmly aligns with the Pakistani ruling establishment’s stated position on Kashmir dispute and holds India responsible for all the troubles in the region.       (Keywords: - Kashm
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