Chandrayaan-3 Gets Front-Page Coverage In Pakistan Despite Strained Ties

Despite the chill in bilateral ties, Pakistan’s media today gave front-page coverage to India’s historic moon landing while a former minister even called it a “great moment” for India’s space agency, ISRO.

‘India becomes first nation to land near Moon’s south pole’ was the headline in most of the Pakistani newspapers and websites.

This was India’s second attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon and comes less than a week after Russia’s Luna-25 mission failed.

Pakistan’s Geo News carried a story by its Web Desk about the landing, saying India’s Chandrayaan-3 has finally landed on the moon after a 40-day journey starting from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota and a history of space crashing.

The News International, the Dawn newspaper, the Business Recorder, Dunya News and others carried stories by various international news agencies.

The bilateral ties between India and Pakistan came under severe strain after India’s warplanes bombed a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp in Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror attack in India.