Pakistan‘s defence minister has said the country is in “open war” with Afghanistan after launching airstrikes on the country overnight.
BBC Verify has geolocated video showing strikes in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar and Paktia.
Aerial footage released by the Pakistan government shows a large explosion at an ammunition depot near Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport, outside Kandahar city, in the south of the country. We confirmed the location by matching four of the depot’s buildings in the video with satellite imagery.Old imagery of downed jet and explosion circulating after Pakistan strikes
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Jake Horton and Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify journalists
Alongside the real videos we’ve verified of Pakistan’s strikes on Afghanistan last night, we’ve also found multiple examples of old footage of previous explosions or downed jets being falsely presented as new.
For example, one photo claiming to show the burning wreckage of a Pakistan fighter jet in daylight has been posted by several accounts on X, gaining hundreds of thousands of combined views.
But the picture is not related to the current conflict with Afghanistan and is actually from last year.
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