Akshita Kumari

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

The founder of an armed group that New Delhi accused of carrying out an attack on tourists in Kashmir did not hold a press conference after India and Pakistan agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire, contrary to posts claiming Islamabad was sheltering him. The video used in the false posts was in fact filmed in January 2017 and he has been imprisoned since 2020 on terror financing charges.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

Hours before New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire that brought a halt to days of intense fighting, a video was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed an Indian air force pilot who ejected from their plane and landed in Pakistan. The video was in fact filmed a year earlier on Instagram by a user who said it showed him paragliding in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. "Indian female pilot landed safely in Pakistan," reads the caption of a Facebook video shared on May 10, 2025.

3 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

Akshita KUMARI / AFP India / AFP Middle East & North Africa15 May 2025 at 11:31 pm·3-min readBefore New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire, bringing a halt to four days of intense fighting across their contested frontier, a video was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed Indian missile strikes on Pakistan. The footage has in fact circulated since October 2024 in news reports about missiles fired at Israel by Iran.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

A video of a gas cylinder truck exploding in India's largest city Mumbai was shared on social media in posts falsely linking it to Indian strikes on Pakistan in May 2025, before the rivals agreed to halt the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in decades. The footage previously circulated online in March, predating the conflict triggered by a deadly attack on the Indian-run side of disputed Kashmir. "Revenge of Poonch - smoke in Sialkot, the Indian army is fully ready.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

Arch-rivals India and Pakistan have traded gunfire along their border almost every night since gunmen killed 26 people in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, 2025. But a video of people fleeing bombardment is unrelated to the attack and in fact shows Israeli air strikes near a hospital in Gaza in November 2023.