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This video has previously circulated in media reports about cattle smuggling at the India-Bangladesh border

Published on 15 November 2019 at 07:14

A video that shows people lifting cattle over a fence using a makeshift crane has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows cows being smuggled over the India-Pakistan border. The claim is false; the video has previously circulated in media reports about cattle smuggling at the India-Bangladesh border; people in the video can be heard speaking Bengali.

This video has circulated in media reports since 2018 about Indian and Pakistani soldiers dancing in Russia during a joint training exercise

Published on 12 November 2019 at 04:20

A video has been viewed hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts alongisde a claim it shows Indian and Pakistani soldiers dancing together to celebrate the arrival of Sikh religious pilgrims in Pakistan in October 2019. The claim is false; the video has circulated in online since 2018 in reports about Indian and Pakistani troops dancing together whilst visiting Russia for a joint military training exercise; media reports from the same year state that representatives from the two armies travelled to Russia for a major anti-terror drill.

No, a US senator named ‘Tony Booker’ did not praise Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan -- there is currently no US senator of that name

Published on 4 November 2019 at 10:30

Multiple posts have been shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter in September 2019 which claim a US Senator named Tony Booker has praised Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. The same claim has also been shared in WhatsApp messages. The claim is false; there is no sitting US senator of that name.

This video has circulated since 2017 in reports about the Indian army beating a man in Kashmir

Published on 25 October 2019 at 10:00

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter which claim it shows the Indian army beating a man and forcing him to shout anti-Pakistan slogans in Indian-administered Kashmir after a security lockdown in August 2019. The video has been shared in a misleading context; it has circulated since at least October 2017, long before India revoked Indian-administered Kashmir’s special status.

This compilation video shows South Korean and American military aircraft and weapons

Published on 23 October 2019 at 10:20

A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in Facebook and YouTube posts which claim it shows Pakistani JF-17 Thunder jets destroying ground targets with bombs. The claim is false; the video is actually made up of different clips of South Korean and US military planes and weapons; some of the footage has circulated online since before Pakistan acquired JF-17s.

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