{"id":297527,"date":"2025-05-02T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=297527"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:57:13","slug":"kazakhstan-content-creators-video-viral-claiming-pahalgam-terrorists-celebrating-after-killing-26-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/kazakhstan-content-creators-video-viral-claiming-pahalgam-terrorists-celebrating-after-killing-26-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Pahalgam terrorists celebrating? Old video by Kazakhstan content creator falsely viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, a video has been doing the rounds on social media. In the footage, five men are sitting inside a car and heard declaring &#8216;Assalamu Alaikum&#8217; and &#8216;Allahu Akbar&#8217;. Social media users have shared the video claiming terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam attack were seen celebrating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An X user named Ujjwal shared the video and wrote that the video showed terrorists of Pahalgam, who have made it viral on social media while celebrating. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/fvxG6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-297756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-125409.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-125409.png 799w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-125409-284x300.png 284w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-125409-768x812.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jitendra Pratap Singh, a BJP supporter who amplifies misinformation and communal propaganda on a regular basis, shared the video and wrote that this was a video of terrorists who opened fire on Hindus in Pahalgam after asking about their religion. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/jWIXF\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0927\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928 \u0938\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0916 \u0932\u094b \u0907\u0928\u094d\u0939\u0947\u0902,\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>\u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e \u092a\u0942\u091b \u0915\u0930 @\u0924\u0902\u0915 \u0915\u0940 \u0917\u094b\u0932\u093f\u092f\u093e\u0902 \u092c\u0930\u0938\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0935\u093e\u0932\u0947,<br \/>\n\u092a\u0939\u0932\u0917\u093e\u092e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092e\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u0917\u090f 28 \u0928\u093f\u0930\u094d\u0926\u094b\u0937 \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0941\u0913\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0930\u0947<\/p>\n<p>\u0938\u094d\u0925\u093e\u0928\u0940\u092f \u0924\u0941\u0924\u0932!\u092e\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u0940 \u092e\u093f\u0932\u0940\u092d\u0917\u0924 \u0938\u0947 \u0930\u091a\u093e \u0917\u092f\u093e<br \/>\n\u0928\u0930!\u0938\u0902\u0939\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u093e \u0916\u0942!\u0928\u0940 \u0916\u0947\u0932\u0964\u26a0\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qr3qVvuC47\">pic.twitter.com\/Qr3qVvuC47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3Jitendra pratap singh\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@jpsin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpsin1\/status\/1915368628784169239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A user named Piyush also shared the video with the same claim. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Ab6gM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-26-190321.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><b>Fact Check<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We performed a reverse image search of a few frames taken from the viral video on Google, which led us to the source video which was tweeted on April 12, 2025 by an account named <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RadioRomaX\/status\/1911079068365173191\">Radio Roma<\/a>. In other words, this video was posted online 10 days before the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, which occurred on April 22, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Contr\u00f4le au faci\u00e8s obligatoire <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8LoMGirqeU\">pic.twitter.com\/8LoMGirqeU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RADIOROMA (@RadioRomaX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RadioRomaX\/status\/1911079068365173191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the search results, we also came across the Instagram account of a user named Sadiq, a content creator from Kazakhstan, where the video was posted on April 11, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sadiq&#8217;s Instagram handle (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_sadiq999_\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@_sadiq999_<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) has more than 2.75 Lakh followers. His timeline had many such videos, almost all of which, including the viral video, have been taken down since the Hindi version of this article was published on April 26, 2025. Here is, however, a screenshot of the timeline before posts were deleted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/2025-04-26-20_19_58-Instagram-Brave-802x1024.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News has reached out to Sadiq for a statement on the matter and this article will be updated once we receive a response from him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To sum up, several users shared a video uploaded by a Kazakhstan-based creator on social media days before the terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, and falsely claimed that it was a video of the terrorists responsible for the attack\u00a0 celebrating after carrying out the violence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, a video has been doing the rounds on social media. In the footage, five men are sitting inside a car and heard declaring &#8216;Assalamu Alaikum&#8217; and &#8216;Allahu Akbar&#8217;. Social media users have shared the video claiming terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam attack were seen celebrating. 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