In India, Giriaraj Singh, Union Minister of the Modi Government, shared the video of a Hindi news channel 'Explaining the camp of the so-called extremist organization, Jaish-e-Mohammed, demolished in the Indian Air Force attack'.

Giriraj Singh wrote in his tweet, "These pictures are clearly telling that the Indian Air Force blasted the Pakistani terrorist training camps."

Two satellite pictures are shown in this video, in which one picture was told before the attack (February 23), while the second picture was told after the attack (February 26).

Thousands of people have shared this viral video on social media. While there are many such people who have presented these satellite photos on Share Chats, Whats App, Twitter and Facebook as proof of 'loss in Jaish camp in Indian attack'.

After the death of more than 40 soldiers in the suicide bomb attack in Pulwama, Jammu, India, Indian Air Force attacked the camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed, located in Balakot, Pakistan.

Indian Air Force Chief BS Dhanoha has cleared that "Air Force successfully targeted most of the targets given, but counting how many people died in this attack is not their job."

Several other BJP leaders including Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah have claimed that more than 200 extremists were killed in this attack and there was a huge loss to Jaish camps.

But to prove that it is true that most of the right-wing groups and the two satellite pictures shared by Union Minister Giriraj Singh, the claims related to them are absolutely wrong.

These two satellite photos do not match the photographs released by Reuters on Wednesday, which Indian media has once again used to show damage of the air strikes.

According to the BBC, from reverse image search, we have access to Facebook and Twitter users who have also shared 'live coordinates' of these satellite photos. That is, it is said where the place is located on the map.

According to the BBC, when we searched it on Google Maps, it was discovered that this is a satellite picture of any building located in Jaba, near New Balakot.

After the Indian Air Force's attack, some Indian Internet users have tried to rename the building. At present, 'Jaish Madrasa' and 'Jaish Training School' are also seen on this location.

In the video appearing in Giriraj's tweet, the TV channel has claimed that the satellite picture before the attack on Google Map is on February 23 and the second picture is after the attack. But both of these claims are wrong.

In its investigation, the BBC found that the second picture was taken from a website named 'Zoom Earth', which shows Satellite pictures with the help of NASA and Microsoft's Bing Maps.

The founder of this website is Paul Neave, who lives in London. Paul Neave talked about these pictures by BBC correspondent Prashant Chahal.

Paul said, "The picture which is being told of the building destroyed after the air strikes on social media, it is an old picture."

Paul clearly said, "Only NASA updates new photos daily. Photos of Bing Maps are not updated daily. It is difficult to do this because it takes years for updating all satellite photos."

But how old is this viral picture? In response, Paul said, "I can say so much that it will not be a few days or months, but a picture of years old. I think the building in this satellite photo is under construction."

The founder of 'Zoom Earth' website, Paul Neave, has also publicly made a tweet by claiming that these photographs have nothing to do with the airstrike.

Now the first picture is a satellite picture taken from Google Maps.

It is located in the same place in Pakistan's Jaba, but seeing the situation of the building, it seems that this is a recent picture.

The TV channel claimed that this satellite picture was before (23 February) the airstrike.

But on this claim, many social media users are raising the question that if this photo is from February 23, then why not change the status of this building on Google Map?

These are some of the questions that put question marks on Union Minister Giriraj Singh's claim.

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