Viral Photo of Opposition Meeting With Pak PM, Army Chief Is Fake

Image showing Rahul Gandhi, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Mamata Banerjee with Pak PM & Army Chief is photoshopped.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

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CLAIM

A viral image showing Pakistan PM Imran Khan interacting with Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa – and Rahul Gandhi, Shatrughan Sinha, Arvind Kejriwal, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Mamata Banerjee seen sitting in the background – has been doing the rounds.

The viral image showing Opposition leaders sitting in a room with the Pakistan PM and Army Chief.(Photo Courtesy: Facebook screenshot)

The picture has been widely shared on Facebook and Twitter.

The image was widely shared on Facebook.(Photo Courtesy: Facebook screenshot)

Similar claims were made by many Twitter users as well.(Photo Courtesy: Screenshot/Twitter)

A tweet with a similar claim was retweeted more than seven thousand times and has more than three thousand people talking about it.

TRUE OR FALSE?

On doing a reverse image search, The Quint found out that the image has been doctored.

The original picture is taken from an Ary News article, a Pakistani news agency, which shows the Pakistani PM, Imran Khan, having a conversation with the country’s Army Chief. The chairs seen behind them, in the original picture, are empty.

The original picture used to make the morphed version.(Photo Courtesy: Screenshot from Ary News)

Clearly, the user had meant to use the photoshopped picture to slam the Opposition.

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