UNIVERSAL EXCLUSIVE: Irrefutable Proof Of #SurgicalStrike
All we had to do was ask (in an unconvincing accent): “Aur janab, kya chal raha hai?”
On October 5, 2016, CNN-News18 aired a ‘global exclusive’ in which the channel essentially tricked Ghulam Akbar, a police officer in Mirpur, Pakistan occupied Kashmir, into stating that he knew of such a thing as the surgical strikes — conducted by the Indian Army and denied by the Pakistani government.
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Watch #NLUNIX and find out what!
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