Abstract

This research study dealt with the foreign policy of the Pakistan and India’s relations and their foreign policies. The study analyzes the issue both qualitative and quantitatively by examining the editorials of Pakistani and Indian print media. Daily The Nation was selected from Pakistan and the Hindu was selected from India to explore the treatment of the coverage based on six months starting from January-2015 to June2015. The rationale behind selection of above mentioned newspapers was their conservative policies as both newspapers presents the ideological views with regard to their respective foreign policy as indicated by their governments. The unit of analysis is this research was entire editorial. The results indicated that daily The Nation published 96 editorials while the Hindu published 79 editorials on the issue of Kashmir, tension on borders, terrorism and water issue. The Nation gave more coverage to the issues as compared to the Hindu with regard to Pak-India relations. Similarly, the water issue and Kashmir issue was significantly raised by the Nation with negative treatment towards India. On the contrary, the Hindu gave more unfavorable coverage towards tension on borders and terrorism. It can be concluded that the proportion of unfavorable coverage in both newspapers was greater than its favorable coverage.