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This analytical paper discusses the political terrorism and its influence on to be public opinion and political issues or to vie with political power. Media is considered a key driver in ensuring manipulation and promotion to the cause of terrorism and flourishes political gains that terrorists want to achieve. Political terrorists always design nationalistic aims because terrorism is what the enemies of a nation do. This paper further describes that the state-sponsored terrorist groups are directed to participate in the exercise and create terror in the minds of aliens. It reviews the terrorists’ treatment to media and media octopus coverage to the insurgents. Media conglomerates direct and glorifies the acts of terrorists while political pundits set the cognitive level of the extremist groups