Days after terrorists shot dead 26 civilians in the picturesque Baisaran Valley, in Pahalgam, Kashmir, several claims regarding the United Nations condemning the terrorist attack have been doing the rounds on social media. One such claim, being widely shared as a message across social media platforms, says that in the UN's condemnation resolution, Pakistan was able to get a clause inserted that terrorists did not kill civilians after asking about their religious identity. Pakistan reportedly showed X posts and videos from 12 of India's Opposition leaders to China, including Congress's chief spokesperson Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, among others to prove their point.
Following this, China, using its veto power in the UN, got the bit about terrorists killing people after enquiring about their faith removed from the condemnation resolution.
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) posted this message on X on May 22, 2025. At the time of writing this, it had over a million views. (Archive)
On May 2, 2025, X user '@mr_pathakshiv' also shared this message.
Vivek Pandey, whose bio says he is the general secretary of Kisan Morcha Varanasi, BJP, blamed Opposition leaders. (Archive)
The message was widely shared on X and Facebook. Alt News also received several requests to fact check this message on our WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160).
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Fact Check
Alt News examined the United Nations' condemnation resolution on the Pahalgam terror attack. However, we did not find anything in the press statement on the clause that Pakistan reportedly inserted regarding terrorists not killing civilians after asking about their faith. Alt News also checked the United Nations' daily briefing, but there was no mention of it here either.
The viral post also claims that Pakistan was able to get the clause that "terrorists did not kill people by asking their religion" added by showing statements from 12 Opposition leaders. The message includes Congress chief spokespersons Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, among others.
In April, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had said he was not in favour of war. His statement did not go down well with some camps and many news outlets called it contentious. Soon after this, another state leader, RB Timmapur, had claimed, "When they were carrying out the terrorist attack, I think they did not ask about religion. If they did, then politicising the issue based on religion by using his statement [Siddaramaiah's] is madness". (News reports 1, 2, 3)
Siddaramaiah had clarified that all he meant was that war should be a nation's last resort. But opposition leaders from the BJP had called the statements by the two leaders insults to the victims' families. Besides this controversy, Alt News found no news reports that corroborate that Khera, Shrinate, Yadav or Siddaramaiah said anything along similar lines. Thus, the claim that Opposition leaders made statements that "terrorists did not ask about religion before they killed" is also not true.
In fact, on May 23, Pawan Khera had even responded to Kiran Bedi's X post, saying, "I expected better than this from you. If an educated person like you can fall prey to fake propaganda without verifying facts, how can we expect anything from those who have a degree in entire political science? Apologise and delete or be prepared to face legal action."
After Khera's post, Bedi had also replied to her own tweet that someone mentioned in the viral message had informed her that the contents of the post were factually incorrect. She added that she urged him to counter the message, but did not delete her post.
Note that this is not the first time Kiran Bedi has posted unverified claims on social media 'based on shared posts'. Alt News has documented this before. Read: Compilation of Kiran Bedi's fake WhatsApp forwards
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