Following a dangerous ambush on a Pakistan convoy bringing provides to Kurram, a area bordering Afghanistan, social media posts falsely claimed a photograph confirmed citizens burning the Pakistani flag. The photograph was once taken in Afghanistan’s Kunar province in Might 2013 following a sequence of anti-Pakistan protests that erupted after border clashes between the 2 neighbouring nations.
“That is their reality. Nowadays, within the Bagan space, the folks burned the Pakistani flag in large sunlight and proved their Afghan id,” reads an Urdu-language X put up shared January 20, 2025.
The put up implies citizens within the the town of Bagan are aligning themselves with Afghanistan and in opposition to the Pakistani state.
Afghan protesters burn a Pakistan flag all through an indication in Asad Abad, the capital of Kunar province on Might 14, 2013
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The protests in Kunar came about along a number of others in other places in Afghanistan following border clashes between Pakistani and Afghan forces (archived hyperlinks right here and right here).
AFP has fact-checked different incorrect information about Pakistan right here.
