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INDOPAK RELATIONS IN IDEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE AFTER 911 CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NAWAIWAQT A PAKISTANI URDU NEWSPAPER

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2021(VI-II).01      10.31703/gmcr.2021(VI-II).01      Published : Jun 2021

Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper

    The objective of this work was to utilize the critical discourse analysis in the reporting and coverage of Indo-Pak relations from an ideological perspective after 9/11. The critical discourse analysis of local, international, and business news, editorials, articles, columns, and letters to the editor published in Nawa-i-Waqt, a Pakistani Urdu Newspaper, is carried out. The overall purpose of the study was to critically analyze lexical choices, rhetorical devices and the dominant themes reported after 9/11 from August 1st, 2008 to January 31, 2009, the peak time of terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In the present study, it has been noticed that the Urdu newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt reports and publishes more news, editorials, columns, and articles regarding this hot aspect. The CDA of lexical items reported and published in the daily Nawa-i-Waqt revealed the use of victimization and generalization in the coverage of Indian Occupied Kashmir. Similarly, Nawa-i-Waqt newspaper also exclusively focused and reported the historical narrative of the government of Pakistan and its efforts to convey the frightful condition of Kashmir and Kashmiris to the nations of the world and engage them to resolve this longstanding dispute.

    Indo-Pak Relations, Urdu Newspaper, Occupied Kashmir, CDA, 9/11
    (1) Muhammad Ahsan
    Lecturer, Department of English, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Shahid Nawaz
    Assistant Professor, Department of English linguistics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Asif
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    APA : Ahsan, M., Nawaz, S., & Asif, M. (2021). Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper. Global Mass Communication Review, VI(II), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2021(VI-II).01
    CHICAGO : Ahsan, Muhammad, Shahid Nawaz, and Muhammad Asif. 2021. "Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper." Global Mass Communication Review, VI (II): 1-12 doi: 10.31703/gmcr.2021(VI-II).01
    HARVARD : AHSAN, M., NAWAZ, S. & ASIF, M. 2021. Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper. Global Mass Communication Review, VI, 1-12.
    MHRA : Ahsan, Muhammad, Shahid Nawaz, and Muhammad Asif. 2021. "Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper." Global Mass Communication Review, VI: 1-12
    MLA : Ahsan, Muhammad, Shahid Nawaz, and Muhammad Asif. "Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper." Global Mass Communication Review, VI.II (2021): 1-12 Print.
    OXFORD : Ahsan, Muhammad, Nawaz, Shahid, and Asif, Muhammad (2021), "Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper", Global Mass Communication Review, VI (II), 1-12
    TURABIAN : Ahsan, Muhammad, Shahid Nawaz, and Muhammad Asif. "Indo-Pak Relations in Ideological Perspective after 9/11: Critical Discourse Analysis of Nawa-i-Waqt; A Pakistani Urdu Newspaper." Global Mass Communication Review VI, no. II (2021): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2021(VI-II).01