Claim: A video shows Bilawal Bhutto Zardari criticising Shehbaz Sharif and the PML-N while speaking at the National Assembly. Fact: PPP Chairman did not target the PML-N or the Prime Minister in the speech in question. In fact, the speech dates back to March 2024, long before tensions arose between the PML-N and PPP. Different […]
Claim: During a heated speech in the National Assembly, Shazia Marri allegedly said, “Release Imran Khan, or you’ll have to face Trump’s wrath.” Fact: This claim is false. The embedded text in the video does not match what Marri said in her National Assembly speech from August 2024. In fact, she originally criticised PTI members […]
Claim: A video shows two men and their motorcycle being dragged under a dumper truck’s front tyres for a few hundred metres after it hit them and tried to speed away in Karachi. Fact: The video is from India, not Pakistan. The accident took place on 23 December 2024 in Agra and the dumper truck […]
Disclaimer: While the fact that the Sindh Police manhandled women during the Sindh Rawadari March outside the Karachi Press Club on 13 October is not disputed, this fact-check focuses solely on analysing the viral image. Claim: An image shows demonstrator Romasa Jami manhandled by the police at the Sindh Rawadari March that was held in […]
Claim: A video shows CCTV footage of a woman being robbed in Karachi in 2024. Fact: The video is from August 2023 and shows a mugging incident in Rawalpindi’s Hukamdad area. On 4 April 2024, Soch Fact Check received a video on WhatsApp showing closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of a mugging wherein two robbers snatch […]
Claim: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed independent candidate, Meher Bano Qureshi emerged victorious from NA-151 Multan IV, defeating Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Ali Musa Gillani after a recount of votes. Fact: As per Form 49 dated 10 February 2024, Ali Musa Gillani was declared the winner. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued a notification of his […]
Claim: In 2018, when Ali Musa Gillani contested elections against Zain Qureshi in NA 157, a recount was demanded due to a 4,000-vote margin, and more than 18,000 votes were rejected at the time. Fact: The actual number of rejected votes was 4,233 as per Form 47 while the margin of victory stood at 6,541. […]
Claim: Google Trends predicted who would win the 2024 general election in Pakistan and that data proved that “PTI is on top”. Fact: Google Trends shows a summary of searches by people around the world; it can be narrowed down according to categories, time period, and location, among other filters. The FAQs page of Google […]
Claim: Former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail is joining the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Fact: Contrary to the popular claim that he is joining the PPP, Ismail is actually taking a break from politics. On 11 January 2024, a video clip of Former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, the Caretaker Prime Minister, Anwar ul Haq Kakar meeting […]
Claim: Khursheed Shah has apologised for the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) “mistake” to join hands with Nawaz Sharif and remove Imran Khan’s government from power. Fact: The PPP parliamentarian did not apologise for ousting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) government. Instead, he apologised for forming a coalition with the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) government. PDM is a […]
Claim: Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son claims that PTI’s MPA Mian Alamdar Qureshi has returned the party ticket and is now contesting for the same constituency (PP 273) from the platform of Pakistan People’s Party Fact: PTI’s PP 273 candidate was not Mian Alamdar Qureshi; it was Iqbal Patafi, who is still contesting for the same […]
Claim: Asif Zardari has announced support for Imran Khan, saying Shehbaz Sharif cannot lead Pakistan. Fact: Zardari has not announced support for Khan, nor has he said Sharif cannot lead Pakistan; the press conference shown in the video is actually from 2019. Another clip with the same caption but a different press conference is actually […]