Claim: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif waited 40 minutes for Vladimir Putin before “growing tired and gate-crashing” the Russian president’s meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Fact: The video that fuelled this claim was originally shared by RT India but was later deleted. The outlet issued a clarification saying “the post may have been a misrepresentation of […]
Claim: A video shows Pakistanis celebrating the Bondi Beach shooting. Fact: The clip is old and shows an event organised in October 2023 by the Imamia Students Organisation, a right-wing Shia student group. On 15 December, an X user posted a video (archive) purportedly showing Pakistanis celebrating the Bondi Beach mass killing in Sydney, Australia. […]
Claim: An image shows a Pakistani man named Naveed Akram, who is one of the suspects in the Bondi Beach shooting. Fact: The image shows a man named Naveed Akram, who is the namesake of the suspect in the Bondi Beach shooting. It does not show the actual suspect, who was injured and hospitalised and […]
Claim: A viral video shows a recent terror attack on Pakistan’s security forces. Fact: The footage is not from either of the recent suicide attacks reported in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In fact, it dates back to October 2024 and shows the aftermath of an explosion near Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport. On 30 November, a […]
Claim: During his recent press conference, DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, “A man sitting in jail has driven all of us mentally insane,” in reference to Imran Khan. Fact: The two videos circulating online seem manipulated. A review of the original footage revealed that Lt Gen Chaudhry referred to Imran Khan as […]
Claim: Multiple videos circulating online show Imran Khan working out inside jail premises. Fact: All the viral clips look typically AI-generated and do not depict real events. Video 1: This video shows the jailed former prime minister running on a treadmill, alongside a still image of him doing push-ups. The text embedded in the clip […]
Claim: An image shows Australian journalist and Sky News anchor Yalda Hakim meeting PTI leader Sahibzada ‘Chico’ Jahangir ahead of her interview with former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sister, Aleema Khanum, that was aired on Sky News. Fact: The image is fake and confirmed to have been generated using Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Moreover, […]
Claim: At a protest rally in Peshawar this month, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi responded to DG ISPR’s recent press conference, using derogatory language. Fact: An AI-generated deepfake audio was likely overlaid onto footage from the KP Chief Minister’s address in Peshawar earlier this month. A video of Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
Additional reporting: Sidra Dar Map visual: Fizza Qureshi Video editor: Muhammad Abid 💡 Claim: Shortly after heavy rainfall in August, federal minister and owner of Park View City Aleem Khan said water “did not breach” the residential society in Lahore at any point. Everything was “safe” and people were “not forced to relocate”, he added. […]
Claim: A video shows Field Marshal Asim Munir crying while delivering a speech. Fact: The clip is fake. A reel shared recently on Facebook shows the Field Marshal breaking down into tears. Fact or Fiction? Soch Fact Check suspected the video is fake, mainly as it appeared to be tongue-in-cheek humour or spoof. The video […]
Claim: Pakistan’s former PM Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar was injured during a firing incident in Quetta on 2 December 2025. Fact: Kakar is alive and well and there are no reports of any such firing incident. The claim is false. On 2 December 2025, multiple Pakistani, Afghan, and Indian accounts claimed that Pakistan’s former caretaker Prime Minister […]
Claim: A video shows Aleema Khan calling Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir a radicalised Islamist who wants a war with India, during an interview with Yalda Hakim of Sky News. Fact: The clip is doctored. Moreover, Yalda Hakim refuted the claim, saying it was a deepfake. On 3 December, an X user that Soch […]