Video shows the man who was captured by the Indian army in 2022, not suspicious of fatal Kashmir attack

After India accused arch rival Pakistan to support a fatal attack on tourists in Kashmir – an charges rejected by Islamabad – was shared a video in posts in which he falsely claimed that one of the attackers admitted that he was sent by the Pakistani secret agency. The video actually spread in news reports from 2022, and none of the armed men who were suspected of performing the latest attack was recorded from April 30th.

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The video shows how a man is interviewed in a hospital bed. He tells the reporter who interviews him that his name is Tabarak Hussain and the spy agency of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) sent him to perform attacks in Kashmir.

The video appeared against the background of rapidly deteriorating tensions between new delhi and Islamabad after a fatal attack on tourists in the Kashmir administered Indian on April 22 (Archived Link) was attacked.

Armed men who aim at tourists killed 26 men at the tourist destination of Pahalgam, the worst attack on civilians on the controversial Himalaya territory in a quarter of a century.

India regularly accuses Pakistan of supporting armed men in the Muslim majority Kashmir and issued new demands after the attack in Pahalgam. Pakistan denied every role in the attack and described the claims of Neu -Delhi as “light -hearted”.

Screenshot of the false Facebook post, which was recorded on April 30, 2025

The same clip was also shared in similar articles on Facebook and X.

However, the video has been widespread since August 2022, and from April 30th the Indian police had not captured the alleged armed men.

The authorities have published posters for three men issued-Pakistaner and an Indian, of which they say that they are members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar e-Taiba group, an undefined terrorist organization. They also announced a two million rupees (23,500 US dollars) for information that leads to the arrest of each man.

Old video

The microphone, which is visible in the wrongly shared videos, bears the name of the Indian news channel AAJ TAK, and a subsequent keyword search led to a longer version of the same film material, which was published on August 25, 2022 on the channel's website) (archived link).

The film material is embedded in a report entitled “Weapons, ammunition and Pakistani currency; Major Terrorist Plot in Jammu and Kashmir”.

Similar pictures and videos were used by other Indian media (archived here and here).

According to reports, the man was shot and captured by security forces when he tried to infiltrate the control line, the de facto limit in controversial cashmere. They said he explained He had been sent by the Pakistani espionage agency to attack the positions of the Indian army.

He later died of cardiac arrest, the reports said.

But Islamabad rejected this report on events and registered a strong protest with India charges against the “extrajudicial murder of Tabarak Hussain” (archived connection).

Hussain was described as “mentally challenged Pakistani citizens who accidentally exceeded the border”, and the proposal he had been sent by the Pakistani army was characterized as a “Schelmische narrative”.

AFP previously exposed other misinformation in connection with Pahalgam's attack here and here.