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Irfan Pathan Says Pakistani Media Ran Fake Babar Story
Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan has said Pakistani media once published a fake story involving him and Pakistan batter Babar Azam, NDTV Sports reports. Pathan made the claim while discussing trolling and…
The Story in Brief
Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan has said Pakistani media once published a fake story involving him and Pakistan batter Babar Azam, NDTV Sports reports. Pathan made the claim while discussing trolling and fake news.
According to NDTV Sports, the reported story claimed Babar Azam had refused Pathan. The report does not provide details on when the story was published, which outlet carried it, or what prompted the alleged refusal. Pathan’s comments point to the difficulty players face when unverified claims spread across cricket’s India-Pakistan rivalry.
The Indian Opinion
The lazy version of this story is that all Pakistani media are dishonest, while the opposite lazy response is to dismiss Pathan’s account because it concerns a rival country. Neither follows from one reported incident. The useful standard is simple: identify the publication, check the original report, and seek a response from those named. Until those details emerge, this is an allegation about a fake story, not proof of a wider media pattern.
Sources (2): sports.ndtv.com, sports.ndtv.com (2)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
