A video of a gas cylinder truck exploding in India's largest city Mumbai was shared on social media in posts falsely linking it to Indian strikes on Pakistan in May 2025, before the rivals agreed to halt the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in decades.

Pakistan has wielded the threat of nuclear retaliation as its go-to deterrent whenever conventional military pressure mounts. Operation Sindoor demonstrated how India decisively hit deep inside Pakistan to destroy terror hubs,