Others are “false and malicious,” such as the one about the Americans moving Pakistani Taleban leaders to Afghanistan to prepare them for an upcoming battle against Pakistan’s army.

So says the US Embassy here, which for nearly eight months has issued statements countering every major error about American foreign policy that it finds in Pakistan’s boisterous media.

It’s a Herculean task that embassy officials say has been undertaken by no other US mission it the world — because nowhere else, those officials say, does US policy face such disdain and misrepresentation.

The statements — called “Corrections for the Record” — are issued a handful of times a month. Whether they are effective is hard to measure, though embassy officials express confidence. Taken together, the missives serve as a chronicle of the uphill battle the US government faces in Pakistan in its sometimes clumsy efforts to influence opinion.

Much is at stake. The Obama administration views Pakistan as a crucial partner in its fight against terrorism, and it has spent the past year attempting to convince Pakistanis that the United States is a steadfast, well-intentioned ally. So far the public has not been swayed: A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 17 percent of Pakistanis view the United States favorably, and only 8 percent express faith in President Barack Obama — his lowest rating in 22 countries surveyed.

The corrections have challenged widely believed theories in a nation with a penchant for conspiracies: That Americans were behind deadly bombings (“absurd, baseless”) or plotting a “massive infiltration” by US Marines of Pakistan’s militant-riddled tribal areas (“entirely false”).

Against that backdrop, some Pakistani journalists say, official embassy denials carry little weight. “Our government does not have a history of giving out information. If the US pulls another Pakistan on the Pakistani media... it’s only natural they would be hostile,” media analyst Adnan Rehmat said. “The hostility stems from this space where secrecy is the norm.”

That attitude has been compounded by confirmations — in the American press — of reports that initially seemed to be wacky conspiracy theories, said Huma Yusuf, a columnist for Dawn newspaper. Those CIA drones that strike militant mountain hideouts? Turned out they are indeed allowed by Pakistan, despite the government’s public denials. The rumors about US troops on Pakistani soil? American officials confirmed in 2008 that US commandos had conducted a ground raid, and more recently that about 200 Special Forces are training elements of Pakistan’s military.

In this duel, the embassy says its biggest foe is The Nation, an English-language newspaper. It has published photos of houses it says were rented by menacing American operatives employed by the security company Blackwater; in one case, according to a US Embassy correction, the resident was a US aid worker.

More recently, the newspaper reported what it called “stark confirmation of the vicious US agenda”: Police had detained a US military official driving an “ammunition-laden vehicle” and “trading heavy weaponry.” The embassy retorted that the truck carried “equipment” used in the Special Forces training, with the consent of authorities.

Shireen Mizari, the editor of The Nation, responded to questions about its coverage and the embassy corrections in her column.

“If the police confirm a piece of information, we have no reason to doubt it,” she wrote of the article about the truck.

Regarding the house photos, she wrote that “if we see anyone doing something suspicious, it is our job to report it.”

But the market for English-language newspapers is small. Television, where 70 percent of Pakistanis get their news and anti-Western venom flows, may be the biggest arbiter of public opinion. The embassy rarely issues corrections about television reports, which are too numerous to monitor.

Even so, the Americans might want to lighten up, Rehmat said. Given the surge in programming, most has nothing to do with the United States, and some is even positive, he said. Instead of corrections, the embassy should focus on getting more American scholars, scientists, artists and athletes into Pakistan to mingle with journalists — not just Washington officials.

“For us, America is either Obama or Bush, or it’s 50 Cent and Michael Jackson,” he said. “We’re missing all the other amazing spectrum.”