A video showing an Aaj Tak reporter interviewing a person lying on a hospital bed is going viral online to claim that it shows a recent interview of a terrorist who was caught alive by the Indian Army after the Pahalgam attack.
How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on some of the keyframes of the viral video on Google which led us to an old video shared by Aaj Tak.
This was the same interview shared on 25 August 2022 and this short has garnered over 1.1 million views on YouTube.
The title of the short mentions that it shows a Pakistani terrorist.
Taking a cue, we performed a relevant keyword search which showed us an old report by the same media outlet.
This article was published on 25 August 2022 and carried the longer version of the interview.
According to the report, the Indian Army prevented two infiltration attempts along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Nowshera sector of Rajouri district, Jammu & Kashmir.
During these operations, they managed to capture one Pakistani terrorist alive who was later admitted to a hospital and is seen in the video.
Conclusion: An old video of a Pakistani terrorist is being falsely linked to the recent Pahalgam terror attack.
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