Claim: Any US dollar notes below year 2021 will not be acceptable from January 2023. Fact: The US is not discontinuing the use of US dollar bills printed before 2021 from January 2023 onwards. On 5 November 2022, Observer Times shared an article with the given claim. It read, “Sequel to the just concluded extraordinary […]
Claim: A graph shared in a viral tweet shows the rate of inflation in Pakistan along with the level of media outcry about inflation under the PTI government vs the PDM government. It claims that the media disproportionately created an outcry about inflation under the PTI government, as compared to the growing inflation under PDM […]
Claim: Social media posts claim that the rate of the US Dollar against the Pakistani Rupee (USD-PKR) suddenly dove to PKR 207 on 28 July 2022, after hovering around PKR 240. Fact: The claim is false. A glitch in the Google Currency Converter temporarily showed the rate as one USD to PKR 207.10, but the […]
Claim: Startup Pakistan shared a post claiming that the Pakistani government is selling a 100% stake in several state-owned companies, namely Pakistan International Airlines, Pakistan State Oil, Sui Southern Gas Company, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines, Oil & Gas Development Company, and Pakistan Petroleum. An article linked in the post further states that the government repealed […]