Years old video of the Pakistani air force exercises appears, while the relationships between Islamabad dive in Delhi

A Video of the Pakistani Air Force Jets, practicing motorway starts and landings, was shot in October 2020, contrary to the social media posts that claimed No air force exercises have been carried out lately On the country's highways.

“The risk of nuclear war grows. Exercises of the Pakistani Air Force begin on the highway” Urdu language signature For a video that was posted on X on April 25, 2025.

“Long live Pakistan, live the Pakistani army.”

The video appeared as long as the relationships between India and Pakistan quickly deteriorated after a fatal attack in Kashmir that new Delhi Islamabad blamed. Pakistan rejected India's accusations as “light -hearted” (archived connection).

Armed men killed 26 men at the attack on April 22nd on the holidaymakers in Pahalgam in India, who administered cashmere in India-the fatalest for civilians in the controversial Himalayan territory in a quarter of a century.

Since the attack, the nuclear armed neighbors have issued diplomatic measures and traded small weapons fire over the control line, which is de facto besides in controversial cashmere.

Screenshot of the false X post, recorded on April 29, 2025

The video was too Divided elsewhere in posts On X, Facebook and Tiktok alongside similar claims.

“Do not publish such videos, don't publish any secrets of the army ..” Read a comment on one of the contributions.

Another said: “Long live Pakistan.”

However, the clip first appeared more than four years earlier.

An opposite image search on Google, which keyframes from the wrongly shared clip using clips with the same film material of the Pakistan Air Force published on YouTube on October 7, 2020 (Archived Link).

The YouTube video has the title “PAF fighters carry landings on the motorway, PAF -Pressure -Department, October 07, 2020”.

“Paf Fighter Aircraft landed on the Islamabad Lahore motorway when she carried out tram lanes today,” says the description of the video.

The description added that the Air Force “regularly operated road stages as part of its operational preparation plan”.

The YouTube video was also embedded in a report by Pakistan News Outlet Geo News on the exercise on October 7, 2020 (archived link).

In addition, an official from the National Highway and Autobahn police (NHMP) announced on April 28 that no air force exercises were recently carried out on motorwaysdescribe the contributions as “misinformation”.

AFP has exposed other false claims that result from the cashmere attack here and here.