India, May 3 -- In the aftermath of the lethal April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistan's military establishment and its tightly intertwined media apparatus appear to be orchestrating a full-blown disinformation campaign.

What began as a murky wave of social media lies has now snowballed into something far more insidious.

Mainstream Pakistani media outlets have begun amplifying the lies once confined to troll farms and military press rooms.

Several primetime shows on Pakistani television have repeated entirely false claims, including:

1. Lieutenant General D.S. Rana of the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency had been sacked and "exiled" to Kala Pani, a colonial-era prison island.

2. Lieutenant General M.V. Suchindra Kumar had been re...