Indian media framed a military rescue as saving a boy from Kashmiri terrorists.

Evidence

His cheeks and eyes were red. He sat alone, or at least appeared to be alone in the photos. Indian media disseminated pictures of this Kashmiri boy sitting, and then walking toward an Indian military police officer. The most ubiquitous photo shared by Indian media outlets showcased the young boy being held in the arms of a lionized Indian military man who patted him on the cheek and appeared to speak softly to the shaken boy, accompanied by headlines declaring that the occupying soldier “saved the boy from Kashmiri terrorists.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 496

Categorization

• SEED: The staged-photo-opportunity angle across narratives — Indian Kashmir rescue photos, media-managed war imagery more broadly — could anchor an article on how states script their own hero narratives against ‘terrorist’ others.