NEW DELHI; A photo of Rahul Gandhi, Congress party president dining with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been shared multiple times in posts on Facebook.
With fake news doing the rounds, AFP Fact Check has gone ahead to prove that the claim is false.
The photo of Khan has been doctored to make it appear as though Rahul Gandhi is sitting beside him.
The doctored image was shared on Facebook post on May 2, 2019. Below is a screenshot of the doctored image:
The part of the image showing Rahul Gandhi has been digitally manipulated. AFP has circled where someone else’s hand appears next to Gandhi’s:
A reverse image search on Google found the image was doctored from this photo, which was posted on Twitter on July 5, 2015. The photo shows Khan dining with his then-wife Reham Khan. Below is a screenshot of that photo.
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