Fact Check: Video urging people to support Modi falsely passed off as a clip from Pakistan

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Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in India, a video of an individual, identified as Asif Zardari from Pakistan, voicing his support for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing the rounds on social media..

The over-one-minute-long video depicts a skullcap-clad man seated in a car..

On X (formerly Twitter), this video has been circulated alongside captions such as, A Pakistani Muslims message to Indian Muslims, and I strongly condemn Pakistani Muslims for mocking Bharatiya Muslims and questioning their loyalty towards Bharat Mata...

Clearly, this video does not show a Pakistani Muslims message to Indian Muslims but is an act by an Agra-based man who regularly makes such videos based on different characters...

The viral video, initially posted by an artist from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, has been wrongly spread as showing a Pakistani urging Indians to support Modi..