Claim: The Lahore Airport was shut down after a “massive” blaze erupted when a tyre of an incoming Pakistan Army aeroplane caught fire. A slightly different version states that it was caused by a blast from the missile battery of air defence systems. Fact: No such incident occurred and the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) has […]
Claim: A video shows Maryam Nawaz allegedly departing for Geneva from Lahore Airport with people chanting, “Maryam kay papa chor hain” [“Maryam’s father is a thief”]. Fact: The claim is false. The video shows Maryam Nawaz arriving in Lahore from London in September 2023, not departing for Geneva. The audio in the clip was doctored […]
Claim: A video shows a Pakistan International Airlines plane moving through a flooded runway at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore amid record-high rainfall. Fact: The video is old, dating back to August 2020. It also made rounds on social media in 2022 with a similar claim. Fact or Fiction? On 22 July 2023, Twitter […]