New Delhi: An old video from Kulgam is being passed off as the result of Indian military action on civilians following the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.
The video shows a mob carrying bodies amid demolished houses, while a woman cries in the background.
Tweeted by Pakistani journalist Irshad Bhatti on 9 August, the video has been retweeted over 7,000 times and liked by over 15,000 Twitter users.
Bhatti tweeted the video with a caption in Urdu that roughly translates to, “Oh Allah … help the oppressed.” The video has had over 1.38 lakh views.
یا اللہ۔۔مظلوموں کی مدد فرما۔۔
یا اللہ۔۔مظلوموں کی مدد فرما۔۔
یا اللہ۔۔مظلوموں کی مدد فرما۔۔ pic.twitter.com/mpxflXwBTl
— Irshad Bhatti (@IrshadBhatti336) August 9, 2019
Another twitter user, Abdullah Gul, son of Pakistan’s former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) DG Hamid Gul, tweeted the same video on August 10 fuelling the same misinformation. Gul’s tweet, in Urdu, translated into , “Massacre started in Kashmir. This video has been sent by a Kashmiri sister.”
“We are providing diplomatic, moral and political support… Isn’t Kashmir Pakistan? Did Tipu Sultan go that way?” he tweeted.
کشمیر میں قتل عام شروع
یہ ویڈیو کشمیری بہن نے بھیجی ہے
قائد اعظم نے فوج کو کشمیر کی طرف مارچ کرنے کا حکم دیا تھا
ہم سفارتی، اخلاقی و سیاسی مدد کر رہے ہیں
عمران خان کہتے ہیں کہ اگر پاکستان پر حملہ ہوا تو جواب دینگے
کیا کشمیر پاکستان نہیں؟
کیا ٹیپو سلطان یہی راستہ اختیار کرتے؟ pic.twitter.com/UHoV6wG6FW
— Abdullah Gul (@MAbdullahGul) August 10, 2019
Gul’s video was seen by more than 60,000 users.
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Fact check
This video, however, is from 21 October last year when seven civilians were killed and a few others were injured due to a blast in South Kashmir’s Laroo village based in Kulgam.
According to the media reports, the Kulgam blast happened during an encounter between security forces and militants at the gunfight site.
The video going viral now was shared on YouTube, last year, under the caption “Kashmir News” on the day of the Kulgam blast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=pOgILhhoiLY&has_verified=1
According to a latest report by news agency Reuters, Indian police has used tear gas and pellets to fight back over 10,000 protesters in Kashmir in Srinagar Friday.
However, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Saturday refuted the report by calling it ‘completely incorrect’.
This article is in collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer.
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“Pakistan” was created through lies, conspiracy theories and promoting hatred.
Those of you interested in the topic should read freedoms fighter Indian Muslim historian Rafiq Zakaria’s books, especially “The man who divided India”.
This is none other than the father of CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria.
In one place the young father Zakaria recalls how Jinnah used vicious hateful language in Bombay and disturbed religious harmony in 1940s!
Secualrist Jinnah!
Good post. What you have written is true. Media outlets like BBC are tools in this misinformation campaign.