Fake news claim: A video available on social media with the below information,” Cruel Pakistani mother inflicts a severe beating on her daughter. This is the fate of countless children in a practice seen as normative among most Punjabi families.

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WARNING - Child Physical Abuse

Cruel Pakistani mother inflicts a severe beating on her daughter. This is the fate of countless children in a practice seen as normative among most Punjabi families.

WARNING - Child Physical Abuse

Cruel Pakistani mother inflicts severe beating on her daughter. This is the fate of countless children in a practice seen as normative among most Punjabi families. pic.twitter.com/7BWZ8Y2bws

— ilanyv🇺🇸 (@ilanyvv) November 14, 2019

WARNING - Child Physical Abuse

Cruel Pakistani mother inflicts severe beating on her daughter. This is the fate of countless children in a practice seen as normative among most Punjabi families. pic.twitter.com/01XF3LhBhP

— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) November 14, 2019

WARNING - Child Physical Abuse

Cruel Pakistani mother inflicts severe beating on her daughter. This is the fate of countless children in a practice seen as normative among most Punjabi families. pic.twitter.com/4ZMNsGJzve

— Nita solanki (@nitasolanki5) November 15, 2019

ایک کمسن معصوم بچی پر ظُلم کی انتہا ری ٹویٹ کریں شاید کوئی اس ظالم عورت کو جانتا اور اس عورت کو قانون کے کٹہرے میں لانے کے لیے مدد کر پائے

Translated from Urdu by

Extremely retaliate cruelty to an innocent girl, maybe someone knows this cruel woman and can help bring this woman to the brink of law.

ایک کمسن معصوم بچی پر ظُلم کی انتہا
ری ٹویٹ کریں شاید کوئی اس ظالم عورت کو جانتا اور اس عورت کو قانون کے کٹہرے میں لانے کے لیے مدد کر پائے pic.twitter.com/JIevy3XDpC

— Sania Abbasi (@saniaabbasi01) November 13, 2019

Facts Check Verdict: False

News Verification: A video shared on social media claiming of brutality of a young girl as from Pakistan is not true. It can be seemed in the video the woman is the girl by her hair and brutally hitting with her slippers.

Ashish Kohli, a reporter who Reports Border Conflicts and Terrorism from J&K tweeted regarding this video on Nov 16.

Horrible Video Viral on Social Media.

Cruel Mother brutality beating her daughter at Nagri area of Kathua #Jammu

Police investigating the whole matter. pic.twitter.com/7ik9N4pjtJ

— Ashish Kohli 🇮🇳 (@dograjournalist) November 16, 2019

He latter updated a video,  stating Mother detained by J&K Police who brutally thrashed her 5 years old daughter. As per information, the woman in the video was beating her daughter while the father was secretly shooting the video

Follow Up :
Horrible Viral Video of Nagri #Kathua

Mother detained by J&K Police who brutally thrashed her 5 years old daughter.@JmuKmrPolice @KathuaPolice pic.twitter.com/YHBq1KaNsK

— Ashish Kohli 🇮🇳 (@dograjournalist) November 16, 2019

The video of a woman thrashing a child was not shot in Pakistan. The video is from Kathua, J&K and the police have detained the accused parents