Claim: Bashar Noorzai was released in a prisoner exchange from Guantanamo Bay. Fact: Bashar Noorzai was charged with drug trafficking in New York, after which he remained in federal custody in the United States. Fact or Fiction? Believed to be a close aide to Taliban founder Mullah Muhammad Omar and a key financer of the […]
Claim: Awami National Party’s provincial president for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Aimal Wali Khan stole money from a donation pool for flood affectees. Fact: A video was doctored to play in reverse to make it look like Aimal Wali Khan was stealing money from a donation pool when, in fact, he is adding cash from his pocket. […]
Claim: A video has been circulating on Facebook that is captioned “A beautiful rendition of the Azaan in India’s biggest talent show”. Fact: This is a doctored video with a fake background that reads “Britain’s Got Talent” and clips of Indian celebrities have been edited into the video from Indian talent shows. There have been […]
Claim: Police personnel pulls out the nails of a young protestor at a recent PTI dharna. Fact: This video is not from a recent PTI dharna. According to multiple statements from police officials, the police constable was trying to snatch a sharp object or blade from the protestor’s hand. While Soch Fact Check can confirm […]
Claim: Pictures show that blockages have been placed on roads to stop Imran Khan’s 25 May 2022 Long March. Fact: Although blockades were actually put in place on roads leading to Islamabad to disrupt the long march, the pictures in question are not from this march. In fact, these pictures are from a similar event […]
Claim: A video shows police firing tear gas shells to disperse PTI protests. Fact: The video in question is from a February 2021 protest at D Chowk where the police used tear gas to disperse government employees who were protesting for a pay raise. A video was shared by former Human Rights minister Shireen Mazari […]
Claim: All Confucius Institutes in Pakistan have been shut down. Confucius Institutes are Chinese language and culture centers set up through partnerships between universities in Pakistan and the Chinese International Education Foundation. Fact: Confucius Institutes in Pakistan remain operational. Fact or Fiction? In a 15 May 2022 tweet, TV personality Orya Maqbool Jan stated the […]
Claim: A video of demonstrators gathering around Information Minister for the new PML-N government Marriyum Aurangzeb is being shared with the claim that it shows people gathered around Aurangzeb at an airport to protest against the recent regime change in Pakistan. Fact: The video is, in fact, from a press conference held by Aurangzeb on […]
Claim: A screenshot of a tweet, seemingly posted by politician Jahangir Tareen went viral right before PTI’s long march. The tweet, addressed to Imran Khan, warns him that political circumstances are different than those in 2104. Fact: Jahangir Tareen never tweeted anything of the sort. The tweet was sent out by an account whose bio […]
Claim: A picture of men standing with their hands behind their backs is being shared on social media with the claim that it shows people who were chanting abusive slogans directed towards Pakistan’s new cabinet members outside Masjid-e-Nabvi in Madina having been arrested. Fact: The image is a year-old image of people who had been […]
Claim: An image is circulating on social media which suggests Maulana Asad Mehmud, Federal Minister for Communications, put tape over a portrait of founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah hanging in his office. Fact: Maulana Asad Mehmud did not put tape over a portrait of Quaid-e-Azam. The portrait is obscured due to the reflection […]
Claim: A drone strike killed sevenin Shawal, District North Waziristan on 10 April 2022. Fact: There was no drone attack in Waziristan in April 2022. Pakistani social media was flooded by the news of a drone attack that allegedly took place in Shawal Valley killing seven people on the night of 10 April 2022. A […]