Staged Video of Pak Police Torture Shared as Situation in Kashmir
The video of policemen barging into a house and creating a ruckus was falsely shared as situation in Kashmir.
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CLAIM
A video on Facebook which shows men in police uniform barging into a house full of women and creating ruckus is being shared as a video from the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in the aftermath of Article 370’s abrogation.
The video, which was posted by a Facebook user called ‘Mudassir Jameel’ on 23 August, has been shared over 6,600 times.
The caption loosely translates to: “Even as thousands Kashmiris are martyred, we stand. Kashmir children became orphans and we stand. Honour has been destroyed and we stand. Our Kashmiri sisters and brothers are traded off, we stand. We want to ask if we’re standing alive or not.”
An archived version of the post can be viewed here.
TRUE OR FALSE
The video is from Pakistan, but according to Pakistani police, it was not a real incident.
A news report published in Dawn dated 5 May 2019, quoted Jamshoro SSP Tauqir Mohammad Naeem as saying that the police arrested four policemen and a civilian for uploading fake videos to “damage the image of the area police”.
WHAT WE FOUND OUT
We broke down the video into several keyframes using InVid Google Chrome extension and then did a reverse image search using the Yandex search engine. We came across a tweet by a user ‘Zarina Bano’.
Though the tweet alleges that the video is from Kashmir, some users in the comments section claimed that it is from an incident in Pakistan. The comment section led us to a tweet by the official Twitter profile of Sindh Police alleging the video is “fake” and that it was “designed to malign Sindh Police and Jamshoro Police”.
'STAGED VIDEO’, CLAIMS PAKISTAN POLICE
Sindh police had claimed that the incident was fake and was “designed to malign” them. The same tweet has the clipping of Aap News, a Pakistan-based news channel, which refuted the credibility of incident in the video that took place in Naushahro Feroze district.
We then looked up the details of the incident and came across the report by Dawn. According to the daily, the SSP had said that investigation had revealed the involvement of four policemen and four other impersonators.
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