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New drama .... #shehlarashid .....quits politics, when was she in Politics ?? She was just side kick of all ant Na… https://t.co/N5EchyoUFL — Oxomiya Jiyori🇮🇳 (@SouleFacts) 1570635906000

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On a day the former JNU student leader Shehla Rashid announced her decision to quit electoral politics, an image of her was being shared with the claim that she wore a saree with Pakistan flag imprinted on it. Twitter user Oxomiya Jiyori, tweeted an image which had Rashid in two different attires. In one attire, Rashid has her head covered with a scarf, while in the other attire, she can be seen wearing a saree that has Pakistan flag on it.Jiyori claimed that Rashid covers her head while she’s in India. But when she travels abroad, she wears a dress that has Pakistan flag on it.“New drama. Rashid quits politics. When was she in politics? She was just a sidekick of all anti-nationals,” she tweeted.The same claim was made using the same image by others on Facebook as well.The image of Rashid wearing a saree with Pakistan flag imprinted on it is a digitally-altered version of her original photo where she’s simply donning a green saree.We cropped Rashid’s saree photo from the image tweeted by Jiyori and ran reverse-image search on it on Google search engine.Using relevant keywords like 'Shehla Rashid green saree', we found several news reports and sites carrying the original picture of Rashid, which has no Pakistan flag on her saree. The saree she’s wearing is plain and dark-green in colour.Here’s the original image.It can be found in this One India news report We also ran a reverse-image search on the photo of Rashid wearing a scarf. We found that it is the same as one that Rashid uses as her display picture in her official social media accounts.Times Fact Check has found the image of Shehla Rashid donning a saree with Pakistan flag imprinted on it to be fake. It is a digitally-altered version of an image where Rashid is simply wearing a dark-green saree.