Pakistan’s claim of capturing India’s first female Rafale pilot Lt Shivangi Singh is false
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A viral claim that IAF pilot Shivangi Singh was captured by Pakistani forces was debunked by PIB. India’s first female Rafale pilot, she began her career with the MiG-21 Bison before training on the Rafale.
India’s first female Rafale pilot, Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh, falsely claimed captured by Pakistan (Image credit: AFP)
As tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad escalate, India is not only facing attacks with drones, missiles, and artillery fire from Pakistan but also battling the spread of misinformation on social media.
On Saturday, a false claim circulated online stating that Pakistani forces had captured Squadron Leader Shivangi Singh. A viral video and image falsely suggested that Singh had been captured near Sialkot after her jet was shot down amid rising India-Pakistan tensions.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
