Issues of Pakistan in Indian Newspapers: An appraisal

Abstract

The press presents centrality to public
life because it provides a forum for debating issues of
national importance. It is found that the coverage of
foreign news in the Indian Press has declined in absolute terms in recent times, but in case of covering Pakistan the story is somewhat different. It is not merely
a sophistry that the Indian media is apt to display an
astonishing interest in matters pertaining to Pakistan
as compared to any other South Asian countries. The
present study is a content analysis of foreign news with
special reference to Pakistan, by two major English
leading dailies in India, The Times of India and The
Hindu. The news stories were recorded and collated
under the various module headings: Politics, religion/
religious, culture and history, arts and entertainment,