Old Video Of Fawad Chaudhry shared again amid Operation Sindoor

In the wake of the May 2025 Indo-Pak conflict, rumours started spreading on social media that India had hit Pakistan’s Nuclear facility located in Kirana Hills (here and here). On 12 May 2025, Indian Air Marshal A.K. Bharti said in a press conference that India did not hit Kirana Hills.

In this context, a video (here, here, and here) allegedly showing Pakistan’s former Information and Broadcasting Minister, Fawad Chaudhry (here and here), is doing the rounds on social media. It is being claimed that he was hospitalised after suffering from radiation exposure. We will fact-check this claim through this article. 

An archived version of this post can be found here.

Claim: Video of former Pakistan Minister Fawad Chaudhry suffering from radiation exposure.

Fact: The video is from May 2023 and unrelated to the current conflict. It shows Chaudhry rushing back into the Islamabad High Court to evade rearrest after being granted bail. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.

To check the veracity of the claim, we took keyframes from the viral clip and conducted a reverse image search, which led us to news reports about this incident from Hindustan Times, Lokmat News, and Economic Times, etc. 

These reports from May 2023 confirm that the clip shows Fawad Chaudhry fleeing from arrest attempts after his release was ordered by the Islamabad High Court. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader was initially detained under Pakistan’s “Maintenance of Public Order” regulation following violent protests triggered by Imran Khan’s arrest in 2023.

The footage shows him hunched over, visibly exhausted, and being helped by a lawyer. The court proceedings and protests linked to this video occurred in May 2023, not during the May 2025 Operation Sindoor.

Additionally, we found no evidence that Fawad Chaudhry was recently affected by Nuclear radiation after Operation Sindoor, as claimed in the viral post. 

To sum up, an old video from May 2023 showing Fawad Chaudhry escaping rearrest at the Islamabad High Court is falsely linked to the current India-Pakistan conflict.