Fact Check: Viral Video of crowd celebrating in Baku is falsely linked to India-Pakistan tensions

India launched “Operation Sindoor”, on May 7, 2025 in retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that claimed the lives of 26 civilians. The precision strikes carried out by Indian armed forces on 9 terror camps, killed more than 100 notorious terrorists in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir. After these attacks, Pakistan provoked India by sending drones and missiles. India targeted at least four Pakistan air bases in retaliatory strikes, reacting to massive provocation and escalation from across the border. Nearly three days after the tension escalated between India and Pakistan, on Saturday, May 10, India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire. While addressing the media, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri informed that the decision was taken after Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations contacted his Indian counterpart after 3 pm on May 10, 2025.

Meanwhile, a video of a huge crowd celebrating in the middle of a street is in circulation with the claim that the people in Azerbaijan celebrated the victory of Pakistan. In the video, we can hear the crowd chanting Pakistan continuously. This video is shared with the caption “Celebration in the streets of Baku Azerbaijan as PAK declared victory over India #IndiaPakistanWar #IndianArmy #PakistanArmy #CeaseFire”

Here is the archive link of the claim.

Fact check:

The claim is Misleading. The video is an old one.

When we extracted the keyframes from the viral video, and searched them using Google reverse image search, we found that the video was shared by a few social media users in the year 2020.

The video was shared on X on November 11, 2020 with the caption “"PAKISTAN" crowd chants praise for Pakistan as people of Azerbaijan celebrate their glorious victory and Armenia's defeat #NagornoKarabakh #Azərbaycan #PakistanZindabad”

The same video was shared by another X user on November 8, 2020.

We could also see similar visuals of celebrations published on Facebook on November 12, 2020, in which we can see people holding Pakistani flags in Azerbaijan and also thanking Pakistan for their help.

Though Azerbaijan and Pakistan have supported each other over the years, the video in circulation is not recent after India-Pakistan tensions. The claim is Misleading