As Australia recovers from the horrific Bondi Beach mass shooting on Sunday (14 December 2025) evening during the Jewish festival Hanukkah event which saw around 16 people being killed, media across the world seem to be hell bent on labelling the terrorists as Indians.
Pakistani Meltdown
Initial reports identifying the attackers as a Pakistani father and son triggered meltdown especially in neighbouring Pakistan where their media rejected the claim and alleged “media terrorism” by Indian, Afghan and Israeli outlets. ARY News asserted that the attackers were Afghan and described the incident as a false flag operation.
Australian police later confirmed the attackers were a father and son, Sajid Akram (50) and Naveed Akram (24). Sajid died after being shot by police, while Naveed remains hospitalised. Investigators said Naveed had earlier been monitored over suspected ISIS links.
Bloomberg Says Terrorists Had Indian Passports, Changes Headline Later
Bloomberg initially reported that the terrorists travelled to Philippines on Indian passports. This was their headline “Phillipines says Bondi beach father-son terrorists visited on Indian passports”
However, it was edited to read, “Bondi Beach Gunmen Had ISIS Flags, Visited Philippines”.
Here is proof of the edit.
Inside the article, Bloomberg claims that “Sajid Akram, 50, was an Indian national and Australian resident, while his son Naveed Akram, 24, was an Australian national, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Immigration said Tuesday in a statement to reporters. They arrived together in the Philippines on Nov. 1 from Sydney and departed Nov. 28.”
So according to Bloomberg, the father is an Indian national with Australian PR while the son is an Australian national and they both travelled to Philippines, citing a spokesperson for the Philippine Bureau of Immigration.
In the previous version of the article, they directly claimed that the duo were Indian nationals.
The article first freely available was then put behind a paywall.
As per a Times of India report, the father – Sajid Akram entered Australia in 1998 on a student visa and later obtained a resident return visa. He is reported to have worked as a fruit seller and to have possessed a firearms licence for recreational hunting. Authorities said he legally owned six firearms, some of which were brought to Bondi, and that he was also affiliated with a gun club.
A Recipe for Disinformation – Bloomberg’s Credibility, Well-Done
Bloomberg’s reporting on the Bondi Beach terror attack is not merely sloppy; it is actively misleading. By initially splashing “Indian passports” across its headline and then quietly retreating once the narrative became untenable, Bloomberg demonstrated a willingness to inject India into a jihadist terror attack where Indian involvement was neither operationally relevant nor supported by Australian investigators. Bloomberg didn’t pursue truth; they are engineering a narrative.
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