Man in viral video admitting to raping daughter an Indian? False claim by Tarek Fatah – Alt News

The video of a man standing behind bars while an individual confronts him is going viral on social media. In the clip, a bearded man called Mushtaq Ahmed is asked by the camera person to describe his place of residence and what he has done. The man says he lives in Shah town and it is implied through the conversation that he had raped his 25-year-old daughter.

Pakistani-Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah, who is quite popular on Twitter, recently quote-tweeted a viral tweet of the clip saying, “His wife was ill so this 60-year-old Indian Muslim admits he raped his 25-year-old daughter to satiate his sexual urges.”

His wife was ill so this 60-year-old Indian Muslim admits he raped his 25-year-old daughter to satiate his sexual urges. https://t.co/Rt4IWt128G

— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) October 25, 2022

While the original tweet did not claim the incident was from India, Tarek Fatah somehow reached the conclusion that the man was an Indian.

This original tweet was shared by @SanatanShreshth with a caption in Hindi that can be translated as, “His wife is sick, so Mushtaq Ahmed raped his own daughter.” The user also tagged senior journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani and actor Swara Bhasker in his tweet questioning why they won’t speak up for the girl.

पत्नी बीमार है तो मुस्ताक अहमद ने अपनी हीं सगी बेटी के साथ #बलात्कार कर दिया।

अब ना तो @khanumarfa बोलेगी और ना हीं @ReallySwara बोलेगी?? pic.twitter.com/WxEWmAGRdJ

— ♦SANATAN SHRESHTH♦???? (@SanatanShreshth) October 25, 2022

Another user shared the clip with similar captions. (Archive.)

He is Mushtaq Ahmed who has raped his own daughter 5-6 times coz his wife wasn’t well

He is 60 and the daughter is 25 pic.twitter.com/DaBxDONMj8

— Flt Lt Anoop Verma (Retd.) ???????? (@FltLtAnoopVerma) October 25, 2022

The viral clip was also shared on Facebook with similar hashtags and is accompanied by several hashtags.

Fact-check

Taking cognizance of the words used in the video and the hint that the man is a resident of ‘Shah town’, we performed a keyword search in Urdu and came across several videos on Facebook related to the incident. Based on the caption it could be deduced that the viral clip was from Karachi, Pakistan.

A Facebook page called ‘4 News Pakistan’ shared the clip on the platform on October 21. As per the captions, the accused, Mushtaq Ahmed, is the father of the victim. His daughter Nazish, who is married to Ehsan-ul-Haq, filed a police complaint narrating that she and her husband were staying in Mansehra Hazara, and her father asked them to move to Karachi promising that he would hire her husband in a private factory. Once they moved to Karachi, her father sent her husband to work and raped her. The accused was using a knife to force the victim.

Another Facebook user who goes by the name Adil Tanha also shared the clip on October 21. The caption provides the same details as the first Facebook video. An additional piece of information this user provides is that the victim told the police that the accused had threatened to kill her if she told this to anyone. When she narrated the ordeal to her husband he tried to commit suicide by consuming rat poison. The husband was hospitalized. Once he recovered they decided to file a police complaint.

Alt News also found a broadcast of the Pakistani channel City News from October 21 where the news about the heinous act was broadcast. At the 23:45-minute mark, the anchor quickly goes through the news of the incident and a screengrab from the viral clip is also displayed as the anchor narrates the piece of news. This further corroborates that the incident is from Pakistan.

Alt News reached out to Pakistani multimedia journalist Shiraz Hassan to access a copy of the FIR pertaining to the case. The details in the FIR were similar to the information available in the public domain. Below we have added the translated copy of the FIR. The document has been translated using Google Lens and may contain minor discrepancies.

Shiraz also shared with us a photo of the accused standing with the police at the Bin Qasim Police Station.

To sum it up, a man in Pakistan’s Shah Town had raped his adult daughter and a video of him confessing to the crime went viral on social media. Pakistani-Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah made the false claim that the incident was from India.

This is not the first time that videos from Pakistan went viral in India. Previously, a video of a faith healer torturing Muslim minors in the name of exorcism was falsely viral in India as a forceful conversion of a Hindu minor girl. In the beginning of September, a video of an elderly woman being tortured over a land dispute in Pakistan was also viral in India with a communal spin.

Tarek Fatah, who has over 7.5 lakh followers on Twitter, has repeatedly been found to be sharing misinformation on social media, often along communal lines. Alt News has documented this in the past.

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