Government’s fact-check wing confirms claims by pro-Pakistan handles about the Rafale pilot being captured are fake.

Pakistan’s latest propaganda attempt was decisively debunked on Wednesday after , India’s first woman Rafale fighter pilot, at the . The image — the President and the Varanasi-born pilot standing together before a Rafale jet — came as a powerful rebuttal to Pakistan media reports that falsely claimed the officer had been captured during .

Following India’s counter-terror operation in Pahalgam, which targeted Pakistan-based militants responsible for the killing of 26 people, Pakistan’s propaganda machinery had gone into overdrive. It circulated baseless claims that several Indian aircraft, including Rafales, had been shot down, and that had been captured as a “prison

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