The image was published here on Facebook on February 1, 2023 and shared more than 2,500 times.
It appears to show a burqa-clad woman giving bangles to a soldier, an insulting gesture that denotes calling someone a coward.
"After the Peshawar blast a woman is giving her bangles to a soldier to wear. Sad to see our demise. But happy to see our awareness," reads the Urdu-language caption.
Screenshot of the false post. Taken on February 6, 2023.
The image was shared following a suicide bombing at a mosque inside Pakistan police headquarters in the northwestern city of Peshawar on January 30, 2023 that killed 84 people.
Similar posts were shared hundreds of times on Facebook here, here and here, and on Twitter here, here and here.
Comments by Facebook users indicated they believed the image was related to the recent attack.
"All these soldiers are patriots, but their superiors are not good," wrote one Facebook user.
"Salute to the brave lady," wrote another Facebook user.
But the image predates the blast by nearly a decade.
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