It’s the fallout of last month’s gun massacre that left 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir followed by tit-for-tat military strikes by India and Pakistan, bringing the nuclear-armed rivals to the brink of their third war over the region.

A video of a transgender woman being dragged to a car and beaten has resurfaced in posts falsely claiming it shows a Pakistani woman being attacked for demanding proof of strikes on India. The clip circulated in a news report weeks before nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan traded tit-for-tat missile and artillery strikes in the worst violence between the rivals in decades.