Claim: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has been killed after his convoy was fired upon. Fact: The claim is false; no such firing incident occurred recently and Rehman is safe and alive. The video report contains unrelated and old footage. On 8 April 2025, YouTube channel TRUE FACTS posted (archive) a video titled, “Maulana Fazal […]
Claim: A video shows a protest in Kabul after Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s recent visit to Afghanistan. Fact: The claim is false as the video is from 2015 when the public in Kabul protested against Maulana Fazlur Rehman after he visited the President of Afghanistan at the time, Ashraf Ghani. On 9 January 2024, a video […]
Claim: A picture shows Fazlur Rehman sitting in an aeroplane with a bottle of whiskey and a half-filled glass on the armrest beside him. Fact: The image has been doctored; the original photo does not have anything on the armrest. On 9 August 2023, the Facebook page ‘PTI Tiger’ posted (archive) a picture with the […]
Claim: A video shows Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the chief of the right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), announcing that he will not be celebrating Pakistan’s Independence Day on 14 August 2023. Fact: The video is from 2018, when Rehman made the announcement due to the alleged rigging of the July 2018 polls. Fact or Fiction? On 12 […]
Claim: A picture shows Maulana Fazlur Rehman posing for a selfie with a young woman. Fact: The picture actually shows a bearded man in a turban and shawl — whom Soch Fact Check identified as Asjad Mahmood, the son of Fazlur Rehman — taking a selfie with his father. On 3 June 2023, Facebook user […]
Claim: A video shows Maulana Fazlur Rehman stepping off a state jet he used to travel to Thailand for a “private” trip. Fact: The video is actually from 2022 and shows Fazlur Rehman arriving in Karachi for another religious cleric’s funeral. On 2 April 2023, Umar Jutt, a special correspondent at Dunya News, tweeted a […]