Claim: A video shows graves of Baloch people that Pakistan Army soldiers desecrated as the ethnic community marched to Islamabad, demanding an end to alleged human rights abuses. Fact: The video dates as far back as at least 2018 and is not “the state’s ongoing attempts to attack the graves of those killed” allegedly by […]
Claim: Former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail stated that if the constitutional order and law in Pakistan was fair, Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan would be out of jail and all members of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) would be in jail. Fact: Miftah Ismail did not make any claim of the sort and […]
Claim: The nomination papers of key political leaders Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Imran Khan, and Maryam Nawaz were rejected by the Election Commission of Pakistan Fact: The politicians face objections to their candidacies, but their nomination papers were not rejected. The returning officers have scheduled detailed scrutinies of their nominations. On 27 December 2023, Soch Fact […]
Claim: Shahzain Bugti said, “Those people can never be recovered who were never born and went missing by their fictitious names.” In the context of the Baloch genocide March, this statement implies that Bugti is casting doubt on the veracity of the survivors’ and their families’ claims regarding the issue of enforced disappearance or missing […]
Claim: Aviation Minister, Khwaja Saad Rafique announced in the National Assembly that Islamabad Airport will be outsourced for 15 years. Fact: While plans are being made to outsource the Islamabad Airport, the bidding process is currently set to start in March 2023. Moreover, the national assembly is not in session, and Khwaja Saad Rafique is […]
Claim: Mahrang Baloch’s father, Abdul Ghaffar Lango, was a Baloch Liberation Army commander. Fact: Mahrang Baloch’s father, Abdul Ghaffar Lango was a political leader of the Baloch National Party and a member of Khair Bakhsh Marri’s reading circle. On 21 December 2023, a coordinated hashtag “#PlantedAuratMarch”, was used on X (formerly Twitter) in relation to […]
Claim: An image shows former-MNA, Chaudhry Bilal Ahmed Virk injured in a hospital after being beaten by the police. Fact: The claim is false as the politician had an accident a few days ago, during which he sustained an eye injury. Fact or Fiction? On 24 December 2023, journalist Sabir Shakir posted a since-deleted image […]
Claim: A social media video alleges that Pakistan’s national flag was spotted near Mumbai airport. Fact: The claim is false as the video does not show the Pakistani flag. The flag in the video does not contain certain features of the Pakistani flag. For example, the white strip in the Pakistani flag which symbolizes minorities […]
Claim: A video shows a woman from India surrounded by multiple men being harassed, touched inappropriately and manhandled. Fact: The video is from Pakistan, and not India. It’s from August 2021 when a female TikToker was assaulted and harassed in Greater Iqbal Park in Lahore on Independence Day. [Trigger warning: This fact-check contains content pertaining […]
Claim: A video shows singer Muhammad Ashraf Malik, also commonly known as Malkoo, under arrest after performing at a concert in Sargodha. Fact: The singer was not arrested, but was in fact escorted out of the venue by the Sargodha Police. Fact or Fiction? On 14 December 2023, X (formerly Twitter) user Shakir Mehmood Awan […]
Claim: A photo shows the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faez Isa, posing with members of the IPP on the occasion of joining the newly-created political group. Fact: The image has been doctored. It originally shows a former lawmaker and ex-member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Ali Nawaz Awan, and not Justice Qazi Faez Isa. […]
Claim: The BBC produced and ran a video report debunking “the entire drama of 9 May”, when protests erupted in Pakistan over Imran Khan’s arrest. The video features footage from the demonstrations, identifies two individuals as state functionaries who fanned the flames, and asks key questions about what transpired that day. Fact: The BBC never […]