Fact Check: Old Image Falsely Shared As Pak Pilot Captured In India

In retaliation for the terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April 2025, on 07 May 2025, the Indian Armed Forces launched strikes on several terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) under the code name ‘Operation Sindoor’. The Indian government clarified that these strikes were carried out on the camps of banned terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Hizbul M…

Fact Check: Viral Images Claiming To Show Pakistani Pilot Being Captured Found To Be Old, AI-Generated

Claim A couple of images, claiming to show the Pakistani Air Force pilot who was allegedly captured by the Indian Army near Jaisalmer. The archived versions of the posts can be seen here and here. Fact Image 1 Newschecker ran a reverse image search, which led us to an uncropped version of the same photo on the Getty Images website, dated December 12, 2016. “Turkish military personnel arrive near a Turkish F16 war plane which crashed in Diyarbaki…

Fact Check: Old Image Falsely Shared As Pak Pilot Captured In India

An image showing multiple armed personnel in the dark is circulating on social media, with many users claiming it to be the first image of a Pakistani Air Force pilot captured by Indian forces. The claim comes in the wake of an assault by the Pakistan Army involving artillery shelling and drone attacks targeting the […]