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June 7, 2026Media War & Conflict

Constructing war in news: Discursive logics of the Pahalgam crisis in the Indian and Pakistani press

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MAMuhammad Awais

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This article investigates emotional framing and discursive logics in Indian and Pakistani media coverage of the Pahalgam crisis, revealing key narrative strategies.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how Indian and Pakistani newspapers framed the Pahalgam crisis through different narrative logics, including accusations and emotional responses.
  • Utilized computational text analysis on 5,972 news articles from April 22 to May 10, 2025.
  • Tested three hypotheses regarding attributions and emotional framing of the crisis.
  • Examined coverage of the Indus Waters Treaty in relation to securitization.
  • Indian outlets focused on accusations, while Pakistani media highlighted demands for proof (confirming the first hypothesis).
  • Coverage of the Indus Waters Treaty revealed that Indian media framed suspension as punitive, contrasting with Pakistani media’s emphasis on coercion.
  • Expected emotional responses during the kinetic exchange were inverted, with different emotions highlighted compared to predictions.

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Muhammad Awais (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a250bca7def13d035e1bcf7https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352261432936
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