‘They are terrorists not militants’: Has the Western media whitewashed the Pahalgam attack?

Twenty-six innocent civilians were shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. However, some Western media outlets such as the New York Times, BBC and others chose to downplay the severity of the attack by terming the perpetrators as ‘gunmen’ and ‘militants’. Why has it triggered so much outrage?

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