Viral videos of IAF strikes on Pakistan flooding social media turn out to be fake and three years old, say reports

However, soon after the news broke on Tuesday morning, many videos started doing rounds of social media and WhatsApp groups which were claimed to be the footage of the IAF strikes. However, fact-checking websites such as AltNews have claimed that these videos are fake and old Soon after the Indian Air Force carried out strikes in Pakistan’s Balakot and other locations on Tuesday, many videos claiming to be footage of the attack started doing the rounds on social media. This video, entitled ‘IAF Mirage 2000 jets in Pakistan Bombing Mission’, turned out to be three years old: The following video, shared by some Pakistani Twitter handles who claimed it was footage of the Pakistani Air Force fighter planes scrambling after Indian jets entered their air space, turned out to be Pakistan F-16s flying over Islamabad at night, as per AltNews and The Quint. Visuals of Pak Air Force in Action over and around Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, and areas near LoC after failed attempt by Indian air force to intrude into Pak air space pic.twitter.com/9L32C4iD4B — خالد February 26, 2019 Journalist Abhijit Iyer-Mitra replied to the video asking why the Pakistani plane was flying so close to the ground and issuing flares, which he said is only possible if some air-to-air action had occurred. Indian Air Force sources told ANI that a group of Mirage 2000 jets struck a major terrorist camp in Balakot sector in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.