Obsessed with Pakistan, Indian media left red-faced after falling for doctored footage
Indian television news channels were left red-faced when they had to retract what they were vociferously peddling as an admission by a former Pakistani diplomat of dozens of deaths in India’s “Balakot air strike” was in fact a doctored video. Footage purportedly showing former diplomat and Pakistani analyst Zafar Hilaly admitting that 300 people were killed in the Balakot airstrike carried out by the Indian Air Force (IAF) inside Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) was widely shared on Indian Twitter as well as various media outlets in the neighbouring country. The Express Tribune found the claim to be false as the video of Hilaly making the claims has been doctored. In the edited video, Hilaly can be heard in the televised debate on local news channel Hum News saying:“India crossed the international border and carried out an act of war in which at least 300 were reported dead. Our target was different from theirs. We targeted their high command. Th...
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