{"id":30442,"date":"2019-03-13T17:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=30442"},"modified":"2019-03-18T23:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:56:06","slug":"mynation-reports-pak-army-training-video-as-soldiers-punished-for-desertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mynation-reports-pak-army-training-video-as-soldiers-punished-for-desertion\/","title":{"rendered":"MyNation reports Pak army training video as soldiers punished for desertion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major Surendra Poonia, an Indian army veteran, tweeted<\/a> a video of personnel in military uniform thrashing a group of blindfolded men, whose hands are tied behind their back, with a cane. Tweeting the video, he claimed that these were the Pakistan army’s Special Service Group (SSG) commandos flogging the “Baloch freedom fighters in Mand Area of Kech District in Pakistan”<\/i>. At the the press-time, it has been retweeted close to 6,000 times. (UPDATE<\/strong>: Major Poonia has now deleted his video, a screenshot of which can be seen below and archived version is available here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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MyNation<\/i> shares video with different narrative<\/h2>\n

On March 12, My Nation<\/i> published a report<\/a> titled, “‘Peace loving’ Pakistan assaults its own security force”. <\/i>The article based on the same video said, “A video accessed by MyNation shows atrocity of Pakistan Army Special Service Group (SSG) who can be seen brutally thrashing soldiers of Pakistan Frontier Corps who deserted their posts and fled away after the Baloch Republic Army (BRA) soldiers attacked them”<\/i>. According to the report, soldiers of the Baloch Republic Army had attacked the Pakistani army outpost on February 27, 2019, raising slogans against the Pakistani army after which the soldiers of the Pakistan Frontier Corps fled the location. The narrative propagated by My Nation<\/i> suggests that the video pertains to an incident of the soldiers of Pakistan Frontiers Corps fleeing the camp on February 27.<\/p>\n

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SSG Commando training video<\/h2>\n

Alt News found that these are Pakistan’s SSG personnel training other soliders under a torture-proofing exercise. We did a YouTube search with keywords, “SSG commando training”, <\/i>and found the same video<\/a> titled, “Pak Army SSG training”<\/i> posted on February 5, 2019. While the My Nation <\/i>report claims that the video is related to an incident of Pakistani soldiers being thrashed after they deserted the army on February 27, the same video has been available on YouTube atleast since February 5, 2019. Thus, the core assertion in My Nation’s article is false.<\/p>\n