{"id":298509,"date":"2025-05-10T20:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=298509"},"modified":"2025-05-10T20:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:34:37","slug":"more-unrelated-clips-go-viral-as-state-of-karachi-after-operation-sindoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/more-unrelated-clips-go-viral-as-state-of-karachi-after-operation-sindoor\/","title":{"rendered":"More unrelated clips go viral as ‘state of Karachi’ after Operation Sindoor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as as tensions escalate between India and Pakistan following military strikes between the two countries, unverified images and videos claiming to be related to the conflict have flooded social media. One such video of a purported blast is being shared where commentary in the background claims that the visuals were from a bomb blast in the port city of Karachi, the capital city of the province of Sindh in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

A fortnight after a terrorist attack in Pahalgam had killed 26 people, Indian Armed Forces in the early hours of May 7 launched Operation Sindoor, hitting nine sites in Pakistan and PoK from where attacks against India had been planned and directed. The Union Ministry of Defence described the action<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cfocused, measured and non-escalatory in nature\u201d, with no Pakistani military facilities having been targeted. Late on May 7,\u00a0reports came in<\/a> of heavy mortar shelling by Pakistan on forward villages along the Line of Control in Poonch and Rajouri areas of Jammu and Kashmir killing at least 16 civilians. They also\u00a0attempted to engage a number of military targets<\/a> in northern and western India including in Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot and Amritsar, among other places, using drones and missiles. These were neutralised by India’s integrated counter UAS grid and air defence systems. Subsequently, Indian armed forces targeted air defence radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan in a proportionate response, and neutralized the air defence system in Lahore.<\/p>\n

Verified X handle @Mahaveer_VJ tweeted the video of the blast and sarcastically wrote, ‘Karachi has become a biscuit’. The tweet garnered close to 550,000 views. (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Karachi ka biscuit ban gaya pic.twitter.com\/uKV5Zaz9cU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0935\u0940\u0930 \u091c\u0948\u0928, \u0cae\u0cb9\u0cbe\u0cb5\u0cc0\u0cb0 \u0c9c\u0cc8\u0ca8, Mahaveer Jain (@Mahaveer_VJ) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several X accounts consequently used the ‘copypasta’ technique, wherein they copied the same caption and amplified the video. (Archives- 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>)<\/p>\n