(De) Escalatory Framing Analysis of Photographs of Terrorist Organisation in the Press of Pakistan
Journal: Journal of Peace Development & Communication
Year: 2024

This research focuses on analysing the representation of the Taliban conflict in four popular Pakistani dailies: Nawa-i-Waqat, Express, The News, and Dawn during three different regimes of Pakistan’s government from 2004 to 2015. The research is concerned with the analysis of escalatory and de-escalatory images to examine the patterns of media reports on the events at different phases of the conflict. The observation confirms that with references to intensity of the war, there is more conflicts