India, Nov. 1 -- A digitally altered video of an Indian Army officer allegedly circulated by propaganda accounts of Pakistan was fact-checked on Friday.

The viral fake clip showed South Western Army Commander Lt Gen Manjinder Singh apparently criticizing the Indian Army's threshold exercises as "political optics to boost the image for the Bihar elections."

The Press Information Bureau (PIB)'s Fact Check unit shared two clips -- the doctored and the original, as it fact-checked the fake claims, and clarified that the Lieutenant General made no such remark. "This AI-generated fake video is being circulated to mislead people and create distrust against the Indian Armed Forces," the PIB said in a tweet.

The original clip, recorded in Bikan...