Old 2017 video of Hafiz Saeed falsely shared as his recent interview after Operation Sindoor
A video (here, here, and here) of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Saeed’s alleged interview after Operation Sindoor, is going viral on social media. We will fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: The video shows Hafiz Saeed’s recent remarks in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor in May 2025.
Fact: The video is from 2017 and unrelated to recent events. There are no verified recent public interviews of him. Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading.
We conducted a reverse image search on the viral clip and found that it was uploaded on 5 February 2017 by AP Archive on their verified YouTube channel.
The video description states that the video is from 31 January 2017, when Saeed was placed under house arrest in Pakistan along with four aides. ‘Azam Suleman, the top security official in the eastern Punjab province, ordered the five to be detained for 90 days after the government vowed to act against the charity and an affiliate known as the Falah Insaniat Foundation,’ stated AP Archive in the video’s description.
Multiple reports (here, here, here, and here) from January 2017 confirm his detention. At that time, the Pakistan Army reportedly said that Hafiz Saeed’s detention was done in the ‘national interest.’ As per a few reports, protests erupted in Pakistan after his detention.
Furthermore, a United Nations Security Council report states (here and here) that Hafiz Saeed is currently serving a 78-year sentence after being convicted in seven terror financing cases. His conviction began on 12 February 2020. He reportedly challenged (here and here) his conviction in the Lahore High Court by filing a petition. Additionally, there are no credible reports of him speaking to the media post-Operation Sindoor in May 2025.
To sum up. The viral video showing Hafiz Saeed is from 2017 and is unrelated to Operation Sindoor.