Claim

In the week before Pakistan's Indus conference, roughly 30 to 50 Indians held coordination Zoom calls with Pakistani counterparts to prepare the peace-letter campaign.

“They were having Zoom calls, I have found out today... a lot of effort went in, in the one week in the lead up to the anti-India conference in Islamabad among about 30 to 40 to 50 Indians who were working with their compatriots on the Pakistani side.”

Rationale

The factual core is real and roughly consistent: dozens of prominent Indians did jointly author a peace appeal with Pakistani counterparts, timed to the same week as Pakistan's Islamabad Indus Waters conference, and the '30-50 Indians' figure is the same order of magnitude as the 61 Indian signatories. However, the specific and central detail — that they held secret 'Zoom calls' to coordinate — is an unverified, self-sourced assertion by Arnab with no independent corroboration, and his framing recasts a publicly announced civil-society peace letter (organized by the named Centre for Peace and Progress) as covert anti-India collusion. The claim mixes a broadly accurate skeleton with an uncorroborated mechanism and conspiratorial spin, making it misleading rather than plainly accurate or false.

Evidence

• https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/dialogue-remains-the-only-viable-way-117-eminent-indians-pakistanis-write-to-pms-modi-and-sharif-seeking-peace-initiative The actual event was a joint open letter dated 30 June 2026 signed by 117 people — 61 Indians and 56 Pakistanis — urging Modi and Sharif to revive dialogue. The ~30-50 Indian figure Arnab cites is the same order of magnitude as the 61 Indian signatories, and a cross-border joint letter necessarily involved India-Pakistan coordination. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.iaanexpress.com/2026/07/01/india-pakistan-dialogue-letter-modi-shehbaz/ Identifies the initiative as organized by the Centre for Peace and Progress (chaired by O.P. Shah), a publicly named civil-society peace body — not a covert operation. Names signatories including Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Mani Shankar Aiyar, A.S. Dulat, Khurshid Kasuri, Pervez Hoodbhoy. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/pakistan-takes-indus-waters-treaty-matter-at-global-conference-why-the-issue-is-rattling-islamabad-2026-07-01-1046748 Confirms Pakistan hosted an Indus Waters Treaty conference in Islamabad around 30 June–1 July 2026, matching the timing Arnab describes; the letter's late-June date coincides with that week. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://organiser.org/2026/07/02/360695/world/india-pak-reconciliation-appeal-in-an-open-letter-by-a-section-of-indians-draws-fire-amid-cross-border-terror-concerns/ Reports the letter and the backlash but contains no reference to any 'Zoom calls' coordination; the specific Zoom-call mechanism appears only in Arnab's own on-air assertion ('I have found out today'), self-sourced and not independently corroborated by any fact-checker or wire report. ✓ reachable · archived