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Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the spokesperson for Pakistan’s military, did the impossible on Thursday and brought a man back from the dead on live TV.

No, we’re not kidding.

The Indian Army’s Chinar Corps — a formation tasked with providing security in India-occupied Kashmir — announced on Wednesday that they had eliminated Mohammad Asif, a former Pakistani special forces soldier.

Lo and behold, Lt Gen Chaudhry held a press conference the next day with a very special guest: retired Havaldar Mohammad Asif of the elite Special Services Group.

Naturally, netizens applauded the military spokesperson for owning the narrative, refuting propaganda and having some fun at the same time.

Asif, who also seemed to find the situation a bit funny, said he had received calls the night before telling him he had been martyred at the hands of Indian forces.

Users on X felt there was a little bit of Bollywood movie magic in the Indian claims, with a number of them believing the entire operation was done to give filmmaker Aditya Dhar a script for a third Dhurandhar film.

One user even joked that this was all the work of artificial intelligence.

One theory was that Asif had a secret “evil twin” who had been taken out by Indian forces.

One post even captioned a picture of Lt Gen Chaudhry and his guest as a “press conference from heaven”.

Unfortunately, as ridiculous as it is for India to have falsely claimed to have killed — and subsequently recovered the body of — a former Pakistani soldier, it is not surprising in the slightest.

In 2021, Indian authorities took another ‘Pakistani asset’ into custody — a balloon resembling an aircraft from Pakistan’s national airline.

And in 2015 and 2016, Indian police arrested two ‘Pakistani agents’ for espionage — the agents in question being pigeons who had made the grave mistake of crossing the border.