An anti-India dossier released by the Pakistan government that alleged mass killing by Indian security forces in J&K, relied on false images of a burnt body. The dossier was issued by Pakistan’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Moeed Yusuf, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari in Islamabad last week.
It alleged that on July 4, 2017, Indian security forces killed a person named Jehangir Khanday at Bahmanoo Area of Pulwama. The dossier also mentioned that the Indian forces possibly used chemical weapons in this operation. Graphic images of a charred body beyond recognition were included in the dossier to assert all the claims.
However, the same picture of the body was posted on various online platforms, years before the 2017 encounter in Pulwama, as claimed by the dossier. In 2011, the picture was published on the internet where a user attributed it to the Turkish violence against the Kurds. In 2013, the same picture was posted on the internet with similar claims. In 2009, the unverified picture was also posted on another platform that claimed the body to be from the Gaza incident.
