Claim: A video shows Pakistani police being chased by protesters in Kashmir in June 2026.
Fact: The video is old, and appeared online as early as May 2024. It is unrelated to the June 2026 clashes in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, also referred to as Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
On 7 June, an X user posted a clip apparently showing the Pakistani police being chased by protesters in Kashmir. The caption reads:
“BIG BREAKING from Pakistan
These are the highly trained police officers of the so-called nuclear-armed country.
Protesters in #Kashmir have chased Pakistani regime police officers [laughing emoji]”.
Screenshot of the X post.
Clashes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Clashes between police and supporters of a recently proscribed civil society group, the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), killed at least seven people and injured 70 others in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on 7 June.
Supporters of the JAAC had gathered outside “the hospital morgue where the body of another group member was taken after his death in firing by police,” Reuters reported. Officials accused the protesters gathered outside the hospital of shooting at the police, saying that law enforcement responded and dispersed the crowd, according to reports. On the other hand, JAAC protesters maintained that they were holding a peaceful sit-in.
The JAAC, which has long demanded political and economic rights, was recently outlawed by the local administration. The group has been demanding the abolition of 12 legislative seats reserved for refugees from Indian-administered Kashmir living in Pakistan, saying the refugees have disproportionate influence.
On 7 June, the Supreme Court of Pakistan-administered Kashmir ruled that the 12 reserve seats were constitutionally protected and could only be abolished through a constitutional amendment. The ruling came ahead of a major protest planned by the JAAC for 9 June.
Commercial activity and public transport services have been brought to a standstill in Pakistan-administered Kashmir since the day of the strike call by the group, according to The Washington Post.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched keyframes from the video and found it appeared online in May 2024. Hence, it is unrelated to the recent clashes in Kashmir.
A Facebook user posted the same clip on 9 May 2024, but the caption also stated it showed police running away in Kashmir.
On the left is the clip circulating online in June 2026 which matches the same footage from May 2024.
Moreover, the same user posted the exact video again on the same day, with a caption linking the incident to Dadyal in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Taking cues from this, Soch Fact Check noted visual clues in the video, such as the building with the name “Meezan Bank”, to geolocate the clip. The exact coordinates of the location lie at 33.3446274, 73.6892029, which confirmed the video shows Dadyal, located in Mirpur District, Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
A clip from May 2024 that shows “Meezan Bank” in “Dadyal”, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (on the left), which matches the location of Dadyal on Google Maps (on the right).
Although the footage is from Kashmir, the fact that it was posted as early as May 2024 confirms it is old, and thus unrelated to the clashes in June 2026. Soch Fact Check, therefore, rates the claim as misleading.
Virality
The X post garnered at least 107,500 views and was liked approximately 2,800 times.
The clip was also shared on X recently at least 12 times.
Soch Fact Check also found that the video was widely circulated on Facebook, and was shared on the platform in at least 27 instances.
Conclusion: A video showing the police running away from a group of people is not from the recent clashes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. It appeared online as early as May 2024.
Background image in cover photo: AP
To appeal against our fact-check, please send an email to appeals@sochfactcheck.com