By Mohammad zubair

Two decades after US-led forces ended the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan, the terrorist group has recaptured the country following US President Joe Biden’s announcement of withdrawal of US military presence by September 11, 2021. By August 15, the Taliban captured 26 out of the country’s 34 provincial capitals.

TV9 Bharatvarsh aired a clip of men dancing with assault rifles and claimed this was the Taliban celebrating after capturing Maidan Wardak. This part of the broadcast was taken down from the channel’s social media accounts.

The video has been widely shared on Facebook and Twitter. It has also turned into a meme with people uploading the clip with different songs.

( Link https://twitter.com/BlazerInk/status/1427692569484529672?s=19)

On August 19, ANI editor Smita Prakash tweeted the video.

( Link https://twitter.com/smitaprakash/status/1428261381875245056?s=19)

The video has also been shared with a Bengali caption making the same claim – “কাবুল দখলের পর আফগান জনগণ যখন জীবন বাঁচানোর জন্য দিগবিদিক পালাচ্ছে তখন তালেবান জঙ্গিদের উন্মুক্ত ডিজে ড্যান্স।”

( Link https://www.facebook.com/jewel.khaled.58/videos/354682176374310/)

American Twitter Kassy Dillon posted the video as well.

( Link https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1427283240553902085?s=19)

FACT-CHECK
Alt News performed a keyword search on YouTube and found two instances of the video in question (1, 2). Both were uploaded in April. One of the videos was uploaded by Pak Mix 2021. This video is a compilation of multiple videos. The segment of the viral video is until the 1:34 mark.

We found another YouTube channel that shared better quality of the viral video on April 20. The caption said “Bannu Dj”.

( Link https://youtu.be/lOiGU5CFn90)

A Pakistan-based journalist Iftikhar Firdous called out TV9 Bharatvarsh and wrote that the viral video shows marriage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. “Dancers in the marriage are masquerading,” he claimed.

( Link https://twitter.com/IftikharFirdous/status/1426925385267220480?s=19)

We searched for the video using keywords and found that Wahab Pukhtoon, a Facebook user from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, had shared the TV9 clip while mocking the channel. After rummaging through his images, we suspected that he is the man in the blue Pathan suit seen in the viral video.

Read the full story here:- https://www.altnews.in/tv9-bharatvarsh-aired-video-from-pakistan-as-taliban-dancing-in-celebration-in-afghanistan/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=newpost