Claim

As founding editor of Times Now, the anchor took an anti-Pakistan line against the Times of India Group's editorial position and influenced India's foreign policy during the 26/11 attacks coverage.

“I was an independent founder, editor of Times Now. And in all the years I was at Times Now, I took an anti-Pakistan line, which went against the editorial line of the Times of India Group... The people know what I did in 26-11. I impacted the foreign policy of this country.”

Rationale

The verifiable biographical elements are accurate: Goswami was Times Now's founding editor-in-chief (from its Jan 2006 launch), held that role during the 26/11 attacks, and took a well-documented anti-Pakistan line (Ofcom formally found his Newshour guilty of anti-Pakistan bias) that ran counter to the Times of India Group's pro-peace 'Aman ki Asha' initiative. However, the central and most consequential assertion — that his coverage 'impacted the foreign policy of this country' during 26/11 — is an unsubstantiated, self-aggrandizing claim with no independent corroboration from fact-checkers, government records, or primary sources; no evidence indicates his TV coverage altered India's foreign policy. The statement is therefore misleading: it wraps a grandiose, unverifiable self-assessment inside otherwise-accurate biographical facts, and the anti-Pakistan-vs-ToI framing (tied to Aman ki Asha, launched 2010) is chronologically distinct from the 2008 attacks.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Now Times Now launched 23 January 2006 with Arnab Goswami as its editor-in-chief from inception, supporting the 'founding editor' part of the claim. pending audit
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnab_Goswami Confirms Goswami was editor-in-chief and anchor of Times Now from 2006 to 2016; was in that role during the November 2008 (26/11) attacks. pending audit
• https://www.thequint.com/news/india/arnab-goswamis-the-newshour-debates-found-guilty-of-anti-pakistan-bias UK regulator Ofcom found Goswami's Times Now Newshour guilty of anti-Pakistan bias, corroborating that he took a documented hawkish/anti-Pakistan editorial line. pending audit
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aman_ki_Asha The Times of India Group ran the 'Aman ki Asha' India-Pakistan peace initiative (launched 1 Jan 2010), a pro-peace stance that contrasts with Goswami's hawkish line, lending some support to his 'against the ToI editorial line' framing — though it postdates 26/11 (Nov 2008). pending audit