India’s media orchestrated a false narrative of a heroic military rescue in Kashmir.

Evidence

The images were so potent, so powerful, that they were far more than mere pictures. They embodied an irresistible metaphor for those who saw them, one in which a gallant nation, Modi’s India, stood as the only hope for the land between those mountains. It could not have been staged any better, except that it was—by photographers and their media handlers in India, and the mobs that took to the internet and the airwaves to tell a story that never happened. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 498