{"id":102614,"date":"2021-09-07T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=102614"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:43:27","slug":"zee-hindustan-broadcasts-old-video-as-minors-fighting-against-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/zee-hindustan-broadcasts-old-video-as-minors-fighting-against-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Zee Hindustan ran video of Baloch girl with machine gun as &#8216;Panjshir, Afghanistan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 6, the Taliban claimed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aajtak.in\/world\/story\/taliban-claims-to-capture-panjshir-valley-and-have-full-control-on-afghanistan-ntc-1321323-2021-09-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complete seizure of Panjshir province<\/a>, the last remaining region in Afghanistan resisting the Islamist extremist organisation&#8217;s control. Against this backdrop, several videos were shared on social media as visuals from the ground. Zee Hindustan tweeted a video on September 3 of a girl operating a machine gun claiming that she has taken up arms against the Taliban in Panjshir. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210904054956\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zee_Hindustan\/status\/1433711352464371716\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Panjshir?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Panjshir<\/a> \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0924\u093e\u0932\u093f\u092c\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u0947 \u0916\u093f\u0932\u093e\u092b \u092e\u093e\u0938\u0942\u092e \u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0940 \u0928\u0947 \u0909\u0920\u093e\u090f \u0939\u0925\u093f\u092f\u093e\u0930!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PanjshirValley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PanjshirValley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Talibans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Talibans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AfghanistanBurning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AfghanistanBurning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AfghanistanCrisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AfghanistanCrisis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AfghanistanTalibanCrisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AfghanistanTalibanCrisis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChinaExposed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChinaExposed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AhmadMassoud?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AhmadMassoud<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PanjshirForce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PanjshirForce<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashrafghani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashrafghani<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WATCH LIVE:- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jYYPDWbKUf\">https:\/\/t.co\/jYYPDWbKUf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OCUiJHMOD6\">pic.twitter.com\/OCUiJHMOD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZEE HINDUSTAN (@Zee_Hindustan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zee_Hindustan\/status\/1433711352464371716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zee Hindustan shared its broadcast on Facebook as well. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210904081411\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/login\/device-based\/regular\/login\/?login_attempt=1&amp;lwv=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102615 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-8.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-8-300x144.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-8-768x368.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Alt News performed a reverse image search of a still from the video and found the original in a tweet dated January 28, 2020. However, the handle that tweeted it had not shared any details about the visuals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AD_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0635\u0628\u0627\u062d_\u0627\u0644\u062e\u064a\u0631<\/a><br \/>\n\u0622\u06af\u0631\u0645\u0646\u0627 \u064a\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 : \u0628\u0640 \u0633\u064e\u0639\u0622\u062f\u06be\u06c1 \u0644\u0622 \u062a\u064f\u063a\u0622\u062f\u0631 \u062a\u064e\u0641\u0622\u0635\u064a\u0644 \u062d\u064a\u0627\u062a\u0646\u0627\u0627\u064b \ud83d\udc9a.<br \/>\n\u0643\u0641\u0648\u0648\u0648\u0648 \u062c\u064a\u0644 2000 \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wyjYSgUwMp\">pic.twitter.com\/wyjYSgUwMp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0645\u06ed\u0640\u0695\u069b\u06dc\u0640\u06b7\u2718\ud83d\udda4 (@6sfm_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6sfm_\/status\/1221976326694981632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Using a keyword search, we located the video on YouTube uploaded on January 26, 2020. It was described as scenes from the Balochistan province of Pakistan where a young Baloch girl was operating the machine gun.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NBJS2dSUSGA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"width:100%; height:auto; aspect-ratio:16\/9;\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Boomlive earlier wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boomlive.in\/fact-check\/fact-check-fake-news-zee-hindustan-taliban-afghanistan-panjshir-little-girl-firing-gun-machine-gun-14550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-check<\/a> on the video, stating that\u00a0a few users had replied to the tweet saying that the song playing in the background was in Balochi.<\/p>\n<p>The video of the young girl with a machine gun is old. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/zee-hindustan-broadcasts-old-video-as-minors-fighting-against-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alt News Hindi had published a fact-check<\/a> on Zee Hindustan&#8217;s report on September 4 but the channel is yet to take down the erroneous broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 6, the Taliban claimed the complete seizure of Panjshir province, the last remaining region in Afghanistan resisting the Islamist extremist organisation&#8217;s control. Against this backdrop, several videos were shared on social media as visuals from the ground. Zee Hindustan tweeted a video on September 3 of a girl operating a machine gun claiming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":102617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739,742],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-102614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-analysis","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check","an_content_type-media-analysis"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/FAKE-3.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102744,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102614\/revisions\/102744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102614"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=102614"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=102614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}