ISLAMABAD: As soon as the terrorist attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach folded Israeli and Indian media started targeting Pakistan while PTI linked accounts also pushed the same narrative.
The Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post called the attackers Pakistani without verification while accounts linked to India’s RAW agency amplified this claim online.
The pattern resembled the Pahalgam false-flag episode in India in which Pakistan was blamed without waiting for evidence.
Available facts clearly contradict this propaganda.
Pakistani official records show no proof that Sajid Akram or Naveed Akram were Pakistani nationals.
Officials say that if they were Pakistani, family records would have surfaced by now. No such links have appeared in Pakistan despite the passage of time.
Pakistani authorities in Australia also confirmed this and said the community provided no information supporting Pakistani identity.
Indian media also falsely claimed Sajid Akram travelled on a tourist visa, which also turned out to be misleading and incorrect.
Records show Sajid Akram arrived in Australia in 1998 on a student visa. In 2001, it was converted to a partner visa after marriage to an Australian woman.
Australian Home Minister Tony Burke confirmed these details.
Sajid Akram had been a member of an Australian gun club for ten years and because of this membership, six licensed weapons were recovered from him.
This further weakens claims of Pakistani links.
Israeli, Indian, and overseas PTI-linked accounts pushed another false story. They tried to link a Pakistani named Naveed Akram to the attack.
That individual later exposed the lie himself on social media and said he had no connection with the incident.
There are also reports that Sajid Akram originally belonged to Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
