Claim: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan posted on X that he disowns any Mission Noor campaign being run in the name of PTI. The post adds that “We are Muslims” and will not endorse any traitors to use PTI’s platform to promote Ahmadiyya ideologies.
Fact: The post is doctored. Imran Khan’s official X account @ImranKhanPTI has no such post in which he distances himself from Mission Noor or associates the movement with Ahmadiyya ideologies.
On 20th September, a PML-N supporter with the username ‘Tahir Mughal PMLN’ posted an apparent screenshot of an X post from Imran Khan. The post, as shown below, states:
“I disown any Mission Noor campaign being run by the name of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf. We are Muslims and we will not endorse any fifth columnists to use our party platform for their ulterior motives of Chenabnagar and Rabwa ideologies.”
عمران نیازی تیری جتنی گزر گئی اور جتنی باقی ہے ٹوٹل پر لعنت ۔۔۔#نور_نہیں_فتور pic.twitter.com/bqvaTw2zjJ
— Tahir Mughal Pmln (@Tahirmughalpml8) September 20, 2025
What is Mission Noor?
Mission Noor is a social media-driven campaign in Pakistan, initiated by youth activists and PTI supporters, calling for people to recite the Azaan (Islamic call to prayer) from rooftops at 9 pm on 20 September 2025 as a form of peaceful protest against perceived political oppression and injustice.
The “Mission Noor” campaign ignited controversy due to its name and timing, which some critics associate with the Ahmadiyya community. Senior PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan took to X to call on PTI supporters to distance themselves from the name and date of the event. When translated from Urdu to English, his post states:
“”Noor” is one of the 99 blessed names of Allah Almighty, which is extremely auspicious, but ‘Mission Noor’, which is not any official program of @PTIofficial, was nevertheless an effort by some individuals on social media, and undoubtedly it would have been with good intentions so that liberation could be achieved from this oppressive system and the illegitimate government of this Form 47 and their handlers. However, “Mission Noor” is a term used by Qadianis, and it is connected to the cursed companion of the cursed Mirza Qadiani, Hakim Nuruddin, and it was on September 20, 1948, that the Qadianis’ global conspiratorial center Rabwah was established.
Therefore, it has become absolutely essential to refrain (avoid) from this terminological name ‘Mission Noor’ and from any political endeavor (activity) on September 20 under this terminological name. It is a demand of faith.”
Similarly, other senior members of the PTI withdrew their support from the campaign publicly.
Fact or Fiction?
A search of Imran Khan’s official X account reveals that there is no such post on his account from 20 September or prior.
Several other elements of the alleged screenshot giveaway that the post is doctored. Firstly, the “Twitter for iPhone” label (pictured at the bottom of the screenshot) was removed from all posts on X (formerly Twitter) in December 2022 by Elon Musk, who deemed it unnecessary. Secondly, a review of Khan’s genuine X posts, following his arrest, shows that they are not written in first-person, unlike his post in the claim (“I disown any Mission Noor campaign…”); they are always shared as quotations or in third-person format from close aides who relay his message from prison.
Lastly, while some senior PTI members distanced themselves from Mission Noor, the official PTI account endorsed Mission and reshared posts of people reciting the Azaan, without associating it with the Ahmadiyya community.
Virality
The false claim in Tahir Mughal’s post received 609 likes, 214 reposts, and 235 comments. The post was also shared on Instagram and Facebook here, here, here, here, and here.
Conclusion: PTI founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan did not post on X, distancing himself and his party from Mission Noor or associating it with the Ahmadiyya community. A screenshot of such an X post by Khan is doctored.