He was a part of the team of journalists brought to the area where India claimed they did the surgical strike, they had freedom to go and investigate themselves.
If you actually read the report, it goes against both Pakistani and Indian narratives of the events.
Actually India never disclosed, where it conducted the surgical strikes. So the location Pakistan army chose to show the journalists were of its own choosing.
Secondly i have red the article, I red the article when it first came out, again and again journalist mentions, the local villagers they were introduce too were reluctant to talk about if the militants had lived and died there.