Old habits die hard; states Syed Akbaruddin slamming Imran Khan as Pakistan tries to malign India again

New Delhi, January 4: It is quite evident that Pakistan deliberately tries to mislead the world with its fake news and fake propaganda against India. When India abrogated Article 370, Pakistan showcased false videos before the United Nations on how India tortured people in Kashmir and later got busted. Similarly, this time also, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin on Friday slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for peddling a seven-year-old violence video from Bangladesh as a case of what he claimed to be "Indian police's pogrom against Muslims in UP".

 

While taking a jibe at Pakistan PM Imran Khan Syed for spreading disinformation maligning India, tweeted, “Repeat offenders. Old habits die hard.” Earlier in a tweet, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Raveesh Kumar also slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for peddling fake video on the internet.

However, Imran Khan later deleted the video which was soon fact-checked and found to be of 2013 and showed police action against a group of people in Bangladesh. The Pakistan Prime Minister had tried to pass off the clip as a case of police brutality "against Muslims" in Uttar Pradesh. At one point in the now-deleted video, a policeman is seen holding a shield of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), proving that it was an incident in Bangladesh. The RAB is an elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of the Bangladesh Police.

Khan faced a strong backlash on social media for tweeting the face video with users saying that he does not even do basic fact-checking. Pakistan has been deliberately trying to malign India claiming the people in Kashmir are unsafe. However, Pakistan is forgetting and purposely trying to avoid the fact that the minorities in their own country have been facing undue atrocities by their military authorities.