Claim: An image shows a child trying to drag his mother’s dead body out of water in Pakistan after torrential rains during the 2025 monsoon season left multiple areas flooded. Fact: The photo is from a scripted video made by an Indian content creator, apparently for entertainment. On 10 September 2025, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) posted […]
Claim: Digital transfers “will now take 2 hours”, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). Fact: The SBP has clarified that “all digital fund transfers are made on [a] real time basis” and people “receive funds in their accounts almost instantly”. The requirement of a two-hour cooling period was first introduced in 2023 and […]
Claim: A timelapse video shows a river in Pakistan overflowing, flooding, and submerging an entire village nearby. Fact: The clip is AI-generated. In early September 2025, a video emerged on social media platforms, depicting a timelapse of a river — in some posts identified as Ravi — flooding, overflowing, and then submerging an entire village […]
Claim: Donald Trump issued video statements about the devastation caused by the 2025 floods in Pakistan and accused India of causing the destruction by releasing water from its dams. Fact: The videos are doctored, likely using AI. Trump has not blamed India for the Pakistan floods nor has he appealed for help for the flood […]
Claim: A clip shows the exact moment a flash flood hit a mountain-side village in Swat and destroyed multiple houses in August 2025. Fact: The clip is synthetically generated, likely using AI tools. On 18 August 2025, TikTok user @rababskills posted (archive) a video they claimed shows floodwater thundering down a mountain in Swat before […]
Claim: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has been elected as the chairperson of Pakistan Bodybuilding Federation. Fact: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has not been elected to any such post, his party’s information secretary has confirmed. Multiple media outlets and social media pages claimed in September 2025 that Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain — the president of the Pakistan […]
Claim: Gas would be available to consumers across Pakistan from 5:30 to 8:30 am, 11:30 to 1:30 pm, and 5:30 to 8:30 pm, according to a new countrywide supply schedule issued in September 2025. Fact: No such schedule has been issued. One of the country’s two gas distributors, the SSGC, has published a rebuttal, terming […]
Claim: During a recent interview, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif advised people suffering due to the torrential rains and floods in the 2025 monsoon season to collect and store water in their bathtubs. Floodwater should be considered a blessing, he said, adding that they should collect water in their homes as it may take 10 years […]
Claim: A holiday has been announced for 23 September 2025 and a notification issued in this regard, according to Pakistani media outlets. Fact: No holiday has been announced in Pakistan for 23 September 2025. The news reports by Pakistani media outlets are actually about the 95th Saudi National Day, but they carry misleading, clickbait headlines. […]
Claim: A video shows a house collapsing due to landslides as torrential rain and floods hit northern Pakistan. Fact: The video is authentic but neither from Pakistan nor recent. It shows a house collapsing in Sarkaghat, a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, in August 2023. On 20 August 2025, Instagram user @aters.mystic […]
Claim: A video shows a sudden downpour as part of a cloudburst in Mingora, Swat. Fact: The viral video is, in fact, from 2020 and likely shows a wet microburst in Perth, Australia. On 16 and 17 August 2025, multiple social media users shared a video claiming that it showed a cloudburst in Mingora, Swat […]
Claim: Dr Adeeb Rizvi has advised people against taking medication for blood pressure issues and undergoing medical procedures such as surgeries. Instead, he promoted a natural recipe of his own, while claiming the success and effectiveness of the said cure in an audio message. Fact: The audio is fake and wrongly attributed to Dr Rizvi. […]