Video shows that Indian Army captured people in 2022 and does not suspect a fatal attack on Kashmir
India accused of competitors Pakistan supports the deadly attack against tourists in Kashmir (accusation rejected by Islamabad) incorrectly claiming it shows an attacker admitting he was sent by Pakistani intelligence agencies. The video has actually been circulated in 2022 news reports, and as of April 30, no gunmen suspected of the recent attacks have been captured.
“Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, you have to listen to what the terrorists caught in the Pahalgam attack,” wrote in the Hindi title of the Facebook video shared on April 27, 2025.
The video shows a man in a hospital bed being interviewed. He told reporters that his name was Tabarak Hussain and that Pakistan's Service Intelligence (ISI) spy agency sent him to launch an attack in Kashmir.
The video surfaced compared to the background of rapidly growing tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad (reserved link) after a fatal attack on tourists on Indian-managed Kashmir on April 22 (a link to archive).
Gunners targeting tourists killed 26 men in a tourist resort in Pahalgam, the worst attack on civilians in the controversial Himalayan territory.
India regularly blames Pakistan on a Muslim minority of Kashmir’s support gunmen and issues new claims following the attack on Pahargam, saying Islamabad supports “cross-border terrorism.” Pakistan denied any role in the attack and called New Delhi's claim “flippant”.
Screenshot of False Facebook post, captured on April 30, 2025
The same clip was also shared in similar posts on Facebook and X.
But the video has been scattered since August 2022, and as of April 30, Indian police have not yet captured the so-called gunman.
Authorities have released the desired poster to three men (two Pakistani and one Indian) who say it is Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba Group, an unspecified terrorist group. They also announced a bounty of Rs 20 lakh ($23,500) to obtain information that led to everyone's arrest.
Old videos
The microphone visible in the fake shared video is named after the name of Indian news media AAJ Tak, and subsequent keyword searches resulted in a longer version of the same shot posted on the channel website on August 25, 2022 (archive link).
The video is embedded in a report titled “Weapons, Ammunition and Pakistani Currency; in the main terrorist plot of thwarted by Jamu and Kashmir”.
Comparison of screenshots of fake shared videos (left) and AAJ TAK's footage (right) (right)
Other Indian media have used similar images and videos (archived here and here).
The man was shot and captured by security forces while trying to infiltrate the control route, the de facto boundary of Kashmir competition. They said he said Pakistani spy agency sends him to attack Indian military posts.
He later died of cardiac arrest, the report said.
But Islamabad rejected claims of the incident and blew up protests over India’s allegations and protested the so-called “killing of Tabarak Hussein outside the trial” (the link to archive).
Hussein was described as a “Pakistan national who accidentally crossed the border with a spiritual challenge” and the suggestion sent by the Pakistani army was described as a “naughty narrative.”
AFP has previously listed other error information related to the Pahalgam attack here and here.
