Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Paktika province on December 25, 2024, killed 46 people. Reportedly Afghan forces retaliated by targeting several points inside Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of 19 Pakistani soldiers.
However several images and videos are being shared among social media users with context to the recent Pakistani airstrikes strikes in Afghanistan and the reported Afghan forces retaliations.
You can see few X posts below:
The social media post mentions:
“Pakistani forces destroyed an Afghan Taliban T-62 tank across the border using long range guided artillery. The tank was allegedly being transported closer to the Pakistani border by Taliban forces.”
However, Fact Crescendo’s findings show that an image of a destroyed Russian T-62 Tank is shared as an Afghan Taliban Tank destroyed by Pakistani forces.
Fact Check
As per latest media reports the conflict situation at Pakistan-Afghanistan border has further escalated since Pakistani airstrike in Afghanistan and the retaliation of Afghan forces. Casualties also have been reported on both sides.
Further, We applied Google reverse search for our investigation and this led us to a website named The Ukraine Israel on 9 August 2024 and according to the published article, the image was taken after Ukraine had captured 11 Russian Sattlements and destroyed at least 2 Russian T-62 battle tanks.
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Conclusion
Hence, from the above investigation, it is clear that the image does not show an Afghan Taliban Tank destroyed by Pakistani forces in a recent series of retaliations at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The image actually shows a T-62 Russian tank destroyed by Ukraine.
Title:Old image of destroyed Russian Tank shared as Pakistani forces destroyed an Afghan Taliban Tank.
Fact Check By: Fact Crescendo TeamResult: Misleading
