{"id":50038,"date":"2019-11-01T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=50038"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:54:45","slug":"old-video-recently-shared-as-indian-and-pakistani-armies-exchanging-sweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-recently-shared-as-indian-and-pakistani-armies-exchanging-sweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video recently shared as Indian and Pakistani armies exchanging sweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of the Indian and Pakistani armies exchanging sweets is getting shared in the backdrop of Diwali celebrations. <em>&#8220;Indian &amp; Pakistani forces exchanged mithai &amp; greetings. How many lapdog channels showed this to the public? How many newspapers had it on the front page? Drum-beating, chest-thumping Mr 56 will sacrifice any number of lives for political gain before 2024.&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>reads a message <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geetv79\/status\/1188713948305973249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> along with the video. It is being claimed that armies of both countries are having a good time but the media would show us otherwise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Indian &amp; Pakistani forces exchanged mithai &amp; greetings. How many lapdog channels showed this to the public? How many newspapers had it on the front page? Drum-beating, chest-thumping Mr 56 will sacrifice any number of lives for political gain before 2024.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p70GNoIVEC\">pic.twitter.com\/p70GNoIVEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geet V (@geetv79) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geetv79\/status\/1188713948305973249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook page &#8211;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2508512762717965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indian Army &#8211; The real hero of India<\/a>&#8211;<\/em> shared the video with a similar narrative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/2019-10-31-17_38_16-Indian-Army-The-real-hero-of-India-Posts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/2019-10-31-17_38_16-Indian-Army-The-real-hero-of-India-Posts.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/2019-10-31-17_38_16-Indian-Army-The-real-hero-of-India-Posts-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>2015 VIDEO<\/h1>\n<p>With a keyword search on Google, Alt News found that the video is of 2015 Republic day celebrations at the Kaman post in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir. <em>Rediff<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.rediff.com\/commentary\/2015\/jan\/26\/india-pak-troops-exchange-sweets-on-rday-violations-can-wait\/42c20cf32fdfcc914b16bc955bb38285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>, <em>&#8220;A unit of 12 Infantry Brigade of the Army exchanged sweets with their Pakistan counterparts at Kaman Post in Uri sector on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road, defence sources said.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ANI had tweeted the video on January 26, 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kaman Setu, Uri: Sweets exchange ceremony between Indian &amp; Pak Army on R Day <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/COZ8FpjGfm\">https:\/\/t.co\/COZ8FpjGfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/559647530133512192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/wire-updates\/national\/2019\/10\/27\/des16-jk-diwali.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> by news agency <em>PTI <\/em>that cited an official, there was no customary exchange of sweets with Pakistani soldiers along the International Border (IB) and the Line of Control (LoC) this year on Diwali.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, a video of the Indian and Pakistani armies exchanging sweets in Jammu and Kashmir on the occasion of Republic day in 2015 was shared as recent in the backdrop of Diwali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of the Indian and Pakistani armies exchanging sweets is getting shared in the backdrop of Diwali celebrations. &#8220;Indian &amp; Pakistani forces exchanged mithai &amp; greetings. How many lapdog channels showed this to the public? How many newspapers had it on the front page? Drum-beating, chest-thumping Mr 56 will sacrifice any number of lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":50074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-50038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/Republic.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50038","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50101,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50038\/revisions\/50101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50038"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=50038"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}