Claim: A video shows a Pakistan Army vehicle charging at civilians in Balochistan.
Fact: The video was first posted over six years ago and likely shows Afghanistan, not Pakistan.
On 10 August 2026, multiple social media users shared a video of a mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle apparently charging into a crowded market that, according to the viral posts, is in Balochistan.
These posts are accompanied by the different captions such as:
- “ایسا لگتا ہے بلوچستان بنگلہ دیش کی تاریخ دوہرانے کو ہے ۔ فوجی بکتر بند گاڑیوں کا مقابلہ پتھروں سے کرتے بچے بوڑھے جوان خواتین ۔۔۔ آہ یہ فوج ملک کو کس موڑ پر لے آئی ہے؟ [It seems like Balochistan is about to repeat the history of Bangladesh. Children, old people, young men, and women are fighting against armoured military vehicles with stones… Ah, what point has this army brought the country to?]”
- “یہ قابل مزمت ہے کہ جب بھی یہ فوجی بلوچ علاقوں میں داخل ہوتے ہیں تو بس روندھتے ہوئے جاتے ہیں کوئی فرق نہیں پڑتا کہ سامنے بچے ہیں بوڑھے ہیں عورتیں ہیں بس وہ بلوچ ہیں تو مارو انھیں [It is condemnable that whenever these soldiers enter Baloch areas, they simply trample them. It doesn’t matter if there are children, old people [or] women in front of them. They are just Baloch, so kill them.]”
- “🚨بلوچستان اس وقت بنگلہ دیش کی تاریخ دوہرا رہا ہے ۔۔۔ اور ہمارے چوکیدار دوسرے ممالک کے ساتھ امن دفاعی معاہدے کر رہے ہیں۔۔۔😏😣 [🚨Balochistan is currently repeating the history of Bangladesh… and our protectors are making peace and defence agreements with other countries…😏😣]”
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched keyframes from the viral video and found that it was posted on Reddit on 6 December 2020 with the title, “Apparently US troops have yet to win the hearts and minds of Afghan people”.
In response to some comments, the original poster (OP) wrote, “I should have titled it as ‘US and US allies’. Sorry.” This indicates that while the forces were not necessarily American, they were Western.
Another search result led us to the same video posted on Kaotic, a free file-hosting platform for “graphic videos, extreme content, funny user uploads, uncensored news, and more shocking reality content”. It was shared on 15 December 2020 with the title, “Afghanis Welcome US Troops In Kabul”.
Russian outlets have also documented and reported on the video in 2020.
For example, popular Russian military portal Avia.pro wrote in an 8 December 2020 report that “hundreds of local residents attacked an American military patrol that had invaded their settlement”. People “began pelting the uninvited guests with rocks, breaking almost all the bulletproof glass in a US military vehicle”, it added; however, it did not identify which Afghan town the incident took place in.
Another Russian website, Military Review, said in a 9 December 2020 report that an MRAP entering an Afghan city was forced to leave after “rocks, chunks of concrete, empty plastic canisters” were thrown at it. An individual associated with the publication posted the clip on X (formerly Twitter).
During our search, we also came across a fact-check by India Today, which is accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). It includes a link to the same video posted — but now deleted — on YouTube on 7 December 2020. According to archived versions we found on The Wayback Machine, it was titled, “APEDREAN VEHÍCULOS DE INVASORES DE EEUU🇺🇸 EN AFGANISTÁN [US INVADERS’ VEHICLES ARE STONED IN AFGHANISTAN]”.
The YouTube video’s caption, translated from Spanish to English, reads as follows:
“Using improvised means, the residents of Afghanistan are demonstrating their attitude toward the invading US military. By January 15, 2021, the number of US military personnel in Afghanistan is expected to be reduced to 2,500 troops. Following the Americans, British, French, and German military forces are also preparing to withdraw from the region.”
India Today also linked khabaronline and Aparat, an Iranian website and video-sharing platform, respectively, that posted the clip on 8 and 18 December 2020 with the same explanation.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the video is old and unrelated to Balochistan.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the video posted more than 40 times on Facebook, including by Indian and Afghan users.
It was also shared on Instagram at least seven times.
On X, the clip garnered close to 440,000 views across three posts.
It was also shared on TikTok and Reddit.
Conclusion: The video was posted over six years old and likely shows Afghanistan, not Pakistan.
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