The Pakistani government shared footage from the video game Arma 3 in response to India's accusation of harboring terrorist infrastructure. This development marks yet another case of Arma 3 being mistaken for—or presented as—real-life combat footage.
On the night of May 6/7, India launched a series of missile strikes targeting alleged terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Code-named Operation Sindoor, the strikes were characterized as retaliation for an April 22 terrorist attack in which militants killed 28 civilians near Pahalgam in Pakistan's portion of Kashmir. India claimed Operation Sindoor eliminated more than 100 militants. On May 8, Pakistan initiated a retaliatory military operation, code-named Bunyān Mārsūs (Arabic for "solid/compacted structure"), which conducted missile and drone attacks on select Indian military sites, including ammunition storage facilities and airbases.
News agencies caught using doctored footage from Arma 3 as evidence of Pakistani forces supporting Taliban fighters against rebels in Afghanistan.
Operation Bunyān Mārsūs was announced via several channels, including the Pakistani government's official Twitter account, which even shared a short video illustration of the military action. However, it didn't take long for social media users to notice that the opening segment of the 33-second video doesn't show...
