Did IAF Veteran Admit to ‘Balakot Failure’? Pak Shares Old Video

Asif Ghafoor posted a video of retired Air Marshal Denzil Keelor claiming he admitted to Balakot failure.

CLAIM

Pakistan Armed Forces Spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor claimed in a Twitter post that Indian Air Force veteran, retired Air Marshal Denzil Keelor admits to the failure of Indian forces on 27 February 2019.

India carried out airstrikes in the wee hours of 26 February in Balakot in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

In retaliation, Pakistan captured Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in a strike on 27 February.

THE TRUTH

On searching Air Marshal Denzil Keelor on YouTube, we came across a video posted by Wild Films India on their channel titled: 'Nehru lost India the war: Air Marshal Keelor speaks about India's battle losses', which was posted on 9 August 2015.

Retired Air Marshal Denzil Keelor is a 1965 Indo-Pakistan war veteran.

Many Twitter users also called out Ghafoor for posting fake news.

Maj Gen Ghafoor. Grow up. It's a lie. This video is not after balakot.. Btw hope you have not forgotten Denzil Keelor's brother Trevor got the first PAF Kill over chaamb jaurian sept 1965. @IAF_MCC @DefenceMinIndia

— Ajay Banerjee (@ajaynewsman) July 28, 2019

Hence Proved !!!
Pakistan lies from it's teeth !!

— Arif_icial (@StealYaMoney) July 28, 2019

Asif, how can a 4 year old video be attributed to 2019? At least, if you want to lie, make it convincing, rather than follow the example of someone who boasted of splitting the moon or of having travelled to Heaven in Al Buraq in the 7th century AD.

— Shyam Nair (@shyam275) July 28, 2019

Lol. Ghafoora getting really desperate. Pls screenshot this tweet. AM Denzil talks of 1965 in a video uploaded in 2015. Trust Ghafoora, as always, to lie n score phantom victories. Cos that's what he is paid to do...invent stories based on falsehoods 😄😄👍🏼👍🏼

— Protocol of the Elders (@eldersprotocol) July 28, 2019

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