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Fact-check: False Claims About ex-Pak Diplomat Admitting 300 Killed in Balakot Airstrike
News 18New Delhi: Several reports have claimed that a former diplomat from Pakistan admitted that as many as 300 terrorists had died in the Balakot airstrike conducted by India on February 26, 2019. However, ‘Alt News’, a non-profit fact checking website, found that in the debate uploaded on YouTube by HUM news as part of a program called “Agenda Pakistan”, Hilaly said, “India ne jo kiya, international boundary ko cross karke ek act of war. By crossing the international boundary India committed an act of war in which they intended to kill at least 300 people.” Alt News further stated that video clips posted on Twitter, however, has an “abrupt cut around 0:7-0:9 seconds”. Former Pak Diplomat Zafar admitted On Tv that in Balakot airstrike 300+ Terr0rists kiIIed and response of Pakistan was weak.pic.twitter.com/EKYGGuC9dS— Maverick Bharat January 9, 2021 In a pre-dawn strike in February 2019, IAF’s Mirage 2000 fighter jets had crossed the Line of Control and carried out strikes in the terror camps in Balakot, Muzaffarabad and Chakoti in a well-planned operation.
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