Irfan Pathan exposes viral fake news involving Babar Azam

Irfan Pathan has exposed how Pakistani media created and spread a fabricated story involving him and Babar Azam. The false narrative claimed that the former Indian cricketer had attempted to interview the Pakistan batter, who then refused based on allegations about Pathan's social media activity. The story gained significant traction online, accumulating over a million views before the truth emerged. Pathan discussed the incident on JioHotstar's Cheeky Singles platform, detailing how the fake story was constructed through digital manipulation of an image. The core deception involved placing his face onto a photograph of another reporter to create a false narrative. "The media in our neighbouring country once ran a story claiming that I had gone to interview Babar Azam, and that he refused because, according to him, ‘He trolls our country, so I won’t give him an interview.’ It was a complete lie. Someone had photoshopped my face onto a picture," Pathan said on JioHotstar. The original photograph featured a yo