Hours before New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire that brought a halt to days of intense fighting, a video was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed an Indian air force pilot who ejected from their plane and landed in Pakistan. The video was in fact filmed a year earlier on Instagram by a user who said it showed him paragliding in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/h3>\n
“Indian female pilot landed safely in Pakistan,” reads the caption of a\u00a0Facebook video<\/a> shared on May 10, 2025.<\/p>\n The video, which appears to show people running towards a descending parachutist, was shared hours before a ceasefire<\/a> ended four days of conflict between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n They exchanged tit-for-tat missile, drone and fighter jet attacks after New Delhi launched strikes against what it described as “terrorist infrastructure” across the countries’ shared frontier. The fighting left around 70 people dead on both sides.<\/p>\n India had claimed Pakistan backs the militants it says were behind an April attack in which 26 people were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir — a charge Islamabad denies.<\/p>\n Screenshot of the false Facebook post, captured on May 15, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The video also circulated in similar Instagram<\/a> and X posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the video was in fact filmed a year before the current conflict.<\/p>\n A reverse image search<\/a> on Google using keyframes from the falsely shared video led to the same footage published on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0on March 26, 2024 (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n “Landing at Lower Dir, KpK,” reads its caption, which also contains the hashtag “paragliding”.<\/p>\n Lower Dir is a district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\nPakistani paraglider<\/h3>\n