

{"id":46377,"date":"2019-09-17T21:44:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=46377"},"modified":"2019-09-18T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:27:31","slug":"media-outlets-fall-for-ips-officers-false-claim-about-pak-baby-smuggled-in-a-bag-to-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-outlets-fall-for-ips-officers-false-claim-about-pak-baby-smuggled-in-a-bag-to-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Media outlets fall for IPS officer\u2019s false claim about Pak baby smuggled in a bag to Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-second video showing a baby found hidden inside a duffle bag is viral on social media. HGS Dhaliwal, an Executive Director of Security at the Airport Authority of India, had shared the video on September 15 with the caption &#8211; <em>&#8220;Baby Bagged!! A 5 month old baby was kidnapped and carried to Dubai from Karachi inside a Travel Bag. Fortunately, it was detected at Dubai Airport and the baby was found safe!!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Baby Bagged!!<\/p>\n<p>A 5 month old baby was kidnapped and carried to Dubai from Karachi inside a Travel Bag.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it was detected at Dubai Airport and the baby was found safe!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpBKhUu30I\">pic.twitter.com\/qpBKhUu30I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HGS Dhaliwal, IPS (@hgsdhaliwalips) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hgsdhaliwalips\/status\/1173098513237856256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Soon after the tweet went viral, multiple media outlets &#8211;\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MirrorNow\/posts\/1696332057168274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror Now<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/LNnBV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Tribune<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latestly.com\/social-viral\/old-video-of-toddler-found-in-travel-bag-in-dubai-goes-viral-after-ips-officer-shares-it-on-social-media-twitterati-goes-berserk-1197497.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latestly<\/a> &#8211; <\/em>wrote articles based on the claims made by Dhaliwal.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46429 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-45-e1568719256822.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-45-e1568719256822.jpeg 984w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-45-e1568719256822-300x191.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-45-e1568719256822-768x489.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Old video<\/h2>\n<p>The video in question was earlier shared by a Twitter user on Jun 24, 2019. It attracted 2 million views.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;A 5 months old Pakistani baby was kidnapped and taken to Dubai in a hand carry bag.<br \/>\nThe kidnapper was caught at Dubai Airport on arrival. The baby is safe and has been returned to his parents.&#8221; Parvez Khan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hf2yDi7kzH\">pic.twitter.com\/hf2yDi7kzH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 McMyc \u2122. (@Its_WNMichael) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Its_WNMichael\/status\/1143027522017345537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A text search on Facebook revealed to us that the same video was shared by one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100004581510321\/videos\/1112450915584282\/\">Parvez Khan<\/a> on November 4, 2018. It<span class=\"_6spk\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0had garnered 83,000 shares.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46381 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-17-at-12.24.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-17-at-12.24.28-PM.png 395w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-17-at-12.24.28-PM-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Origins of the clip<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asife\/status\/1173598511352438784\">Twitter user<\/a> had commented that the bag and the accessories seen in the video are of Saudi Arabian brand, Al-Saniedi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46402 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-9.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-9-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-9-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-9-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-9-990x495.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taking this as a hint, we performed a time-search on Twitter for the word &#8216;baby&#8217; in Arabic (\u0637\u0641\u0644 and \u0627\u0644\u0637\u0641\u0644) and found an October 2018 tweet by a user <em>@ProfAlsaadi.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">( \u0637\u0641\u0644 \u0648\u0634\u0646\u0637\u0647 )<br \/>\n\u062a\u0635\u0644\u062d \u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0647 \u0644\u0645\u0633\u0644\u0633\u0644 \u062e\u0644\u064a\u062c\u064a \u0644\u0631\u0645\u0636\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u062f\u0645 ..<br \/>\n\u0645\u0646 \u0625\u0636\u0627\u0641\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0630\u0647 ( \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0639\u062f\u064a\u0647 ) \/ \u0623\u0645 \u0633\u0627\u0644\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0647\u0627\u062c\u0631\u064a .. \u0634\u0643\u0631\u0627\u064b \u0644\u0643 . <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OyNAPsNsEj\">pic.twitter.com\/OyNAPsNsEj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Prof.Alsaadi (@ProfAlsaadi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfAlsaadi\/status\/1056295148252999680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video shared by <em>@ProfAlsaadi <\/em>carried a watermark which read <em>&#8216;noash_a&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190917-130905-e1568712388902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1408\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190917-130905-e1568712388902.jpg 1408w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190917-130905-e1568712388902-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190917-130905-e1568712388902-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190917-130905-e1568712388902-1024x548.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190917-130905-e1568712388902-990x530.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190917-130905-e1568712388902-1320x707.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While we were unable to locate the same video posted by <em>@noash_a,<\/em> we found another video of the same baby shared by him. This was tweeted as a reply to a user who shared the clip of the baby in a duffle bag and demanded that the &#8216;perpetrator&#8217; be punished. <em>@noash_a\u00a0<\/em>replied,\u00a0<em>&#8220;This is the same child who is active and this is his father enjoying his time in the desert and you stay on Twitter and no one notices or reads anything about you.&#8221;<\/em> (Translated from Arabic.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0646\u0641\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0637\u0641\u0644 \u0644\u0627\u062a\u0633\u0648\u064a \u0641\u064a\u0647\u0627 \u062d\u0642\u0648\u0642\u064a \u0648\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0628\u0648\u0647 \u0637\u0627\u0644\u0639 \u0644\u0644\u0628\u0631 \u0645\u062a\u0648\u0646\u0633 \u0648\u0627\u0646\u062a \u062e\u0644\u0643 \u0641\u064a \u062a\u0648\u062a\u0631 \u0645\u062f\u0646\u0642 \u0648\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u062d\u062f \u062f\u0631\u0626 \u0639\u0646\u0643 \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZrZ4SlPIo\">pic.twitter.com\/dZrZ4SlPIo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0646\u0648\u0627\u0634 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0635\u064a\u0631\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0627\u0631\u064a (@noash_a) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noash_a\/status\/1056639220683587584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A comparison of the facial features of the baby reveals that s\/he is the same child.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46406 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-11.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-11-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-11-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-11-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-Custom-dimensions-11-990x495.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Given below is the sequence of events observed by Alt News:<\/h4>\n<p>1. The video was first shared with an Arabic caption. This was between October 28 and 29, 2018. <em>@noash_a\u00a0<\/em>seems to be the creator of the video. The fact that he uploaded another clip of the baby suggests that he might not be a stranger to the child.<\/p>\n<p>2. The video was subsequently shared with a completely different narrative on October 31, 2018. Here, an Arabic page on Facebook claimed that the video represents a Filipino maid kidnapping a baby. However, the second part of the video which shows the alleged woman was not shot at the same location. From what it seems, two different clips were merged to support the claim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2050Alsharqia\/videos\/194196558057190\/\" data-width=\"250\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/2050Alsharqia\/videos\/194196558057190\/\"><p>\u0627\u0644\u0642\u0628\u0636 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0645\u0647 \u0641\u0644\u0628\u064a\u0646\u064a\u0629 \u062d\u0627\u0648\u0644\u062a \u062e\u0637\u0641 \u0637\u0641\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0630\u0648\u064a\u0647 \u0641\u064a \u0634\u0646\u0637\u0629 \u0633\u0641\u0631 . \u0648\u0639\u0645\u0644 \u0623\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u062d\u0631 \u0644\u0647<\/p>\n<p>Posted by \u200e<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2050Alsharqia\/\">\u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0642\u064a\u0647 2050..Al sharqia<\/a>\u200e on Wednesday, 31 October 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>3. From the next month onwards, i.e., November 2018, the video began to be shared with the &#8216;Pakistani baby kidnapped and taken to Dubai&#8217; claim. It is still circulating with the same narrative.<\/p>\n<p>While it cannot be conclusively established if the video was created in jest or it depicts an actual incident, there is little doubt that the &#8216;Pakistan-Dubai&#8217; claim is flimsy. Media outlets that ran stories on the video, based their reports on old and unverified footage which was tweeted by HGS Dhaliwal, the Executive Director of Security at the Airport Authority of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-second video showing a baby found hidden inside a duffle bag is viral on social media. HGS Dhaliwal, an Executive Director of Security at the Airport Authority of India, had shared the video on September 15 with the caption &#8211; &#8220;Baby Bagged!! A 5 month old baby was kidnapped and carried to Dubai from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":46466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[663],"class_list":["post-46377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Media outlets fall for IPS officer\u2019s false claim about Pak baby smuggled in a bag to Dubai - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Media outlets fall for IPS officer\u2019s false claim about Pak baby smuggled in a bag to Dubai - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 24-second video showing a baby found hidden inside a duffle bag is viral on social media. 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