Indo-Pak Relations in the Backdrop of a ‘Friendly Gesture’ and an Attack: Framing Analysis of Indian and Pakistani Press Coverage

This paper analyses the news coverage of Modi's stopover in Pakistan and the attack on the Pathankot airbase in India. Focussing on the immediate newspaper coverage, this study endeavours to provide an overview of the coverage based on the analysis of an Indian newspaper, The Times of India, and a Pakistani newspaper, The News International. Using media framing, this article attempts to ascertain the dominant frames and the differences in framing of the same issue in Times of India and The News International. The possible explanations for the likely highlighting of certain frames by a newspaper have been specified, and consequences of differences in framing of the same issue have also been discussed.