Claim: An image on social media shows a mushroom-shaped smoke rising from the New Kabul Bank suicide blast in Kandahar on 21 March 2024. Fact: The picture is misleading. It shows the smoke cloud rising from a May 2018 blast in Kandahar when Afghan security forces accidentally detonated explosives while trying to defuse them. On […]
Fact: Videos on social media show Saad Rizvi being welcomed by TLP workers after being released from jail. Claim: Saad Rizvi has not yet been released from prison and the videos are from a previous TLP rally. Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan leader Saad Rizvi was arrested earlier this month, leading to widespread protests, as well as clashes […]