Claim

At around 7 pm on the day of broadcast, about 100 Indians and Pakistanis held a large video conference to advance the pro-dialogue agenda, and the anchor claims to possess screenshots and participant names.

“Around seven o'clock this evening... about 100 Indians and Pakistanis, mostly Pakistanis and some Indians got on together one large video conference and they were discussing how to take this agenda forward. I have the names... I have screenshots through my contacts.”

Rationale

The specific factual assertion — that ~100 Indians and Pakistanis held a large video conference at around 7 pm on the broadcast evening to advance a pro-dialogue agenda, and that the anchor holds screenshots and participant names — rests entirely on Arnab Goswami's uncorroborated on-air statement. No screenshots or names were ever published, and no fact-checker, wire agency, or primary source independently confirms that such a video conference occurred. The broader 'Track 2 Colombo dialogue' narrative it belongs to was explicitly disputed by primary Indian sources: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri denied any sanctioned Track-2 talks, and RSS's Ram Madhav (a participant) described the underlying event as an ordinary academic conference and the dialogue narrative as a 'psyop.' Because the claim's core evidence is undisclosed and unverifiable while the surrounding framing is contested by officials, the claim cannot be substantiated.

Evidence

• https://www.rammadhav.in/articles/why-there-is-no-track-2-diplomacy-with-pakistan/ RSS leader Ram Madhav, a participant, calls the Colombo 'Track 2 dialogue' narrative a 'fictitious... psyop' and says the actual event was a routine annual academic conference by a London think tank, not a coordinated agenda-setting exercise. Contains no mention of any ~100-person video conference or screenshots. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.republicworld.com/india/dozens-of-such-meetings-happen-foreign-secretary-vikram-misri-s-blunt-takedown-of-india-pakistan-track-2-talks-2026-06-29-130448 Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri publicly rejected the Track-2 framing, saying 'dozens of such meetings happen' and there are no government-sanctioned Track-2 dialogues with Pakistan — undercutting the claim of an orchestrated pro-dialogue push. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r63h-2n1-0 Arnab Goswami's own Republic broadcast where the 'Track 2 timed to the Indus Summit in Colombo' claim originates; the video-conference/screenshots assertion is his on-air statement, not independently sourced. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://x.com/ANI/status/2072493899969613972 The verifiable real-world item is an open letter by ~117 signatories (61 Indians, 56 Pakistanis) urging dialogue — a public letter, not a secret ~100-person 7pm video conference; the numbers loosely echo but do not match the anchor's specific claim. ✓ reachable · archived