Claim: A live news broadcast shows a donkey-cart slipping on the road amid heavy rainfall in Dera Ghazi Khan. Fact: The video is AI-generated. A video shared on Facebook begins with a reporter saying:, “Nazreen iss waqt mein Dera Ghazi Khan ke ilaqay se bara he raast report kar rahi hoon, yahan pe bohat tez […]
Claim: A viral video of a broadcast news report from Gujranwala shows a motorcyclist slipping on the road. Fact: The absence of background noise from the environment, verbal inaccuracies, and the reporter’s lack of a reaction to the accident suggest that the video is AI-generated. A video was shared on Facebook with the caption: “گوجرانوالہ […]
Claim: A video shows a pedestrian falling into an open-faced manhole while a reporter broadcasts live from an area in Karachi during rainfall. Fact: The video is AI-generated. Visual and audio inconsistencies confirm that it does not represent a real event. A video shared online shows a female reporter standing on a street lined with […]
Claim: Recently, Muslim female athletes refused to shake hands with an Indian army officer at a sports event. Fact: There is no evidence to support this claim, and the accompanying image is likely AI-generated. On 19 July 2025, a Facebook page by the name of Verified Pakistan shared an image allegedly showing Muslim female athletes […]
Claim: A viral video shows a woman being beaten with sticks by a group of men in Pakistan. Fact: The video is actually from Kamarhati in West Bengal, India, and its earliest instance is from July 2024. On 16 July 2025, a user on Facebook shared a video that allegedly showed a group of men […]
Claim: The Supreme Court of Pakistan declared the ban on 27 YouTube channels unconstitutional. Fact: The SCP has issued no such declaration. The letter accompanying the claim in some of the viral posts is from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), an independent body of lawyers, not the Supreme Court itself. On 9 July, journalist […]
Claim: US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, recently named Pakistan as one of the potential new partner countries that may recognise Israel as part of the push for the Abraham Accords. This, the claim asserts, is what was agreed to during Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir’s visit to America in June 2025. Fact: Kushner […]
Claim: A post suggests Kasim and Sulaiman Khan have arrived in Pakistan. Fact: The image of Khan’s sons is AI-generated and the video in the background shows a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rally held in Gujranwala in 2022. On 12 July 2025, a Facebook user posted an image of Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan’s […]
Claim: An image claims that 50% of the population prefers Maryam Nawaz while 39% prefers Ali Amin Gandapur. Fact: The claim does not specify that the poll refers only to the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and not the entire country’s population. The statistics in the image are from a recent Gallup Pakistan poll that […]
Claim: A video shows a recent argument between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Ali Muhammad Khan and Pakistan Muslim League-N’s Rana Tanveer Hussain in the National Assembly. Fact: The post’s caption does not clarify that the exchange between the PML-N and PTI members is from September 2024. On 11 July 2025, the Facebook page of local […]
Claim: A video shows a recent instance of Awami Muslim League (AML) founder and former Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed crying outside a judicial court. Fact: The video is from February 2023 and shows Rasheed being escorted by police to the courts in Islamabad in relation to defamation cases filed against him. On 17 […]
Claim: An image shows an article by The Daily Telegraph praising the Pakistan Air Force in the wake of the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan which took place in May 2025. Fact: The image is fake. The Daily Telegraph did not publish any such article. On 11 May 2025, a user […]