Colonel Sofiya Qureshi became a household name in India following her prominent role in Operation Sindoor, the Indian armed forces’ precision strikes on nine terror hubs in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on May 7, in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
It’s no surprise that an image of the Colonel with a budding teenage cricketer, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, is making the rounds.
A Facebook post by World Editor 0 shared an image of the two with the caption, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Sofia Qureshi. The post garnered 225K likes.
A similar Facebook post was shared by मो जैद with the text- Vaibhav Suryavanshi And Sofia Qureshi. The post received 18K likes.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral image and found it to be digitally manipulated.
A Reverse Image Search yielded no credible news reports or official uploads from either Suryavanshi or Qureshi featuring this image. No such post exists on their verified social media handle of Suryavanshi.
However, the Reverse Image Search shows an image similar to the one in which Vaibhav Suryanvanshi stood next to former cricketer Wasim Jaffer in March last year.
The teenage cricketer shared the image on his Instagram post.
The NewsMobile team can safely say that the photo is digitally manipulated and is not real.
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