{"id":74119,"date":"2020-08-28T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T09:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=74119"},"modified":"2020-09-03T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:43:04","slug":"news18-india-airs-video-from-indore-as-man-jumping-into-floodwater-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/news18-india-airs-video-from-indore-as-man-jumping-into-floodwater-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"News18, Times of India run Indore video as man jumping into floodwater in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On its daily show &#8216;Sau Baat Ki Ek Baat&#8217;, News18 India anchor Kishore Ajwani highlighted the &#8216;failure&#8217; of the Imran Khan-led Pakistani government to control floods caused by heavy downpour in the country. During the 9:50 am broadcast on August 25, the channel aired footage of an area drowned in water to depict the calamitous situation in Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi. This can be watched from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wjyXM_hptYI?list=PLl9a-rLzMUxtvF5FDjjFBXdoj554iwgKb&amp;t=1101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18:10 minutes<\/a> into the show.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"News18 India &#039;Sau Baat Ki Ek Baat&#039; August 25\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/452486293?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After heavy rainfall in Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi, a video of a shocking stunt by a man became viral. He can be seen jumping off a four-storied building in the video and he pulled off this stunt to showcase the failure of Imran Khan&#8217;s government. The place where this incident took place experienced waist-deep flooding. The streets and lanes resembled a swimming pool hence the man jumped from a four-storied building into the water,&#8221; narrated Ajwani.<\/p>\n<p>While visuals of a man diving into floodwater were played, a ticker on the screen read, &#8220;\u092a\u093e\u0915\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928 \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u094b\u0932 \u0916\u0941\u0932\u0940&#8221; which roughly translates to &#8220;Pakistan government exposed&#8221; in English.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74143 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T140044.413.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T140044.413.png 615w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T140044.413-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T140044.413-470x264.png 470w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T140044.413-215x120.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same video was picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TimesofIndia\/videos\/666836904190034\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Times of India<\/a> on September 1 with the same claim that it&#8217;s from Karachi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74483 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1738\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6.png 1738w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6-1024x421.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6-1536x632.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6-990x407.png 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/5b0688fa-a53c-4074-80f5-223b35d844e6-1320x543.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1738px) 100vw, 1738px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Video from Indore<\/h4>\n<p>A day after the show was aired, Twitter user Shahnawaz Ansari took to the micro-blogging platform to inform that News18 India ran a three-day-old video of his brother&#8217;s friend &#8220;Bhura Bhai&#8221; from Indore as Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanu_sab\/status\/1298643896034000896<\/p>\n<p>Alt News spoke with Ansari who connected us with Jafar, popularly known as &#8220;Bhura Bhai&#8221; in his locality. &#8220;That&#8217;s me in the video News18 aired as scenes from Pakistan. I had jumped into the water after we heard that a teenaged boy was drowning. But he was already rescued by the municipal corporation by the time I plunged into the water,&#8221; said Jafar. He also sent us the original footage of the clip aired by News18.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Original footage of video from Indore aired as Pakistan by News18 India\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/452448721?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"352\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in Sikandrabad Colony and a mosque&#8217;s minaret is visible in both clips\u2014the one aired by News18 (left) and the original sent by Jafar (right).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74137 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/Untitled-design-2020-08-28T101655.077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/Untitled-design-2020-08-28T101655.077.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/Untitled-design-2020-08-28T101655.077-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/Untitled-design-2020-08-28T101655.077-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/Untitled-design-2020-08-28T101655.077-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/Untitled-design-2020-08-28T101655.077-990x457.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jafar informed that the mosque is Sikandrabad Masjid located in the same colony. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Sikandra+Bad+Colony,+Indore,+Madhya+Pradesh\/Sikandrabad+masjid,+Sikandrabad+Road,+Sadar+Bazar,+Indore,+Madhya+Pradesh\/@22.7294207,75.8484838,323m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x3962fd9c444b7f83:0xc15d4a8f27fdd1b6!2m2!1d75.849401!2d22.7296385!1m5!1m1!1s0x3962fd675cdf1c89:0xca7c4162f388ddc!2m2!1d75.8496141!2d22.7292814!3e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a> screenshot below shows that the mosque is barely 50 metres from Sikandrabad Colony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74139 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T102248.331.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T102248.331.png 518w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/download-2020-08-28T102248.331-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The area floods almost every year during the monsoons as the Sirpur Lake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Sikandra+Bad+Colony,+Indore,+Madhya+Pradesh\/Sirpur+Lake,+Sirpur,+Indore,+Madhya+Pradesh\/@22.7168785,75.8158857,5828m\/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x3962fd9c444b7f83:0xc15d4a8f27fdd1b6!2m2!1d75.849401!2d22.7296385!1m5!1m1!1s0x3962fdd1df04fc55:0xb2d3b0c682c5b59c!2m2!1d75.8183831!2d22.7041204!3e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">located about 5.5 km<\/a> from the colony, overflows due to incessant rains. Jafar sent us another clip where he is diving into the water from a different building. He jumped a second time to show that the location is the same.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jafar jumping into floodwater in the same area\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/452448781?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"352\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>News18 India, therefore, picked up a video from Madhya Pradesh and aired it claiming a man dived into floodwaters in Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi to send a message to PM Imran Khan for his &#8216;failure&#8217; to tackle flooding in the country. The man had jumped into the water in Indore&#8217;s Sikandrabad Colony to save a drowning boy.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Update: On September 2, four days after this fact-check was published, The Times of India also carried the video claiming it&#8217;s from Pakistan.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On its daily show &#8216;Sau Baat Ki Ek Baat&#8217;, News18 India anchor Kishore Ajwani highlighted the &#8216;failure&#8217; of the Imran Khan-led Pakistani government to control floods caused by heavy downpour in the country. 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