Claim: A video shows Pakistan Army personnel risking their lives to help victims affected by the August 2022 floods in Balochistan. Fact: The video is not related to the August 2022 flood relief operations carried out by the Pakistan Army but is, in fact, from Kandahar, Afghanistan when an Afghan military helicopter rescued people on […]
Claim: A video shared on social media claims to show Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa attending Independence day celebrations at the Pakistan High Commission in London, where national song Dil Dil Pakistan was performed by Ukrainian singer Nataliya Shmarenkova. Fact: The caption is false and misleading. The video is not from the […]
Claim: Social media posts claim that an international magazine published a cartoon showing Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan polishing the shoes of US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu. Fact: The cartoon is actually a stock image sourced from a 1902 children’s magazine called Chatterbox. […]
Claim: PML-Q MNA Monis Elahi has joined Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Fact: Monis Elahi has officially rejected any claims regarding him joining PTI and he has also published a tweet rejecting the viral image of a notification claiming the same. On 19 August 2022, several twitter users shared an image which claimed to be a […]
Claim: A Facebook post claims that a video shows the River Chenab in Punjab, Pakistan after India released flood water. Fact: The claim is false. The video is not from Pakistan but is actually from Iran when flash floods in January 2020 caused massive damage. On 1 August 2022, a Facebook page shared a video […]
Claim: Journalist Imran Riaz Khan tweeted an image of a woman in lockup who he claims is the wife of the driver of Dr Shahbaz Gill. Fact: The image attributed to the driver’s wife is misleading. The image first surfaced in 2019 in relation to a murder case. On 11 August 2022, Pakistani journalist Imran […]
Claim: A video shows a man lying naked on a bed, with a white cloth over his genitals and bruises on his backside. Social media users claim the man is former prime minister Imran Khan’s aide, Dr Shahbaz Gill. Fact: The man is not Dr Shahbaz Gill as a longer version of the same clip […]
Claim: The World Animal Protection (WAP) condemned the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s aide, Dr Shahbaz Gill, in a Twitter post. Fact: WAP has not released any statement regarding the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s aide, Dr Shahbaz Gill. On 9 August 2022, Facebook user ‘Adeel Ali Khan’ posted […]
Claim: News anchor Syed Ali Haider talks about a case of sexual harassment at Quetta’s Heart and General Hospital. He links a viral clip of a doctor sexually assaulting a patient during a surgery to a video of a woman demanding justice for being harassed during surgery. Fact: The video of a doctor sexually assaulting […]
Claim: A notification shared on social media claims “due to torrential rains, Sindh government declares Thursday 18 August as public holiday throughout Karachi and Hyderabad division”. Fact: The claim is false. The Sindh government did not announce a public holiday on Thursday 18 August across Karachi and Hyderabad. All government and private offices are open […]
Claim: A video shows former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s aide, Shahbaz Gill, meeting his children while in detention following his arrest last week. Fact: The video does not show Shahbaz Gill or his children but about a couple of children who allegedly ran away from home due to an abusive father. On 13 August 2022, […]
Claim: An image of PML-N head Nawaz Sharif watching something on his phone is being shared with captions that imply he was watching Imran Khan’s August 13 political rally. Fact: The politician was watching his daughter’s political rally from July; the image was posted to Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s Twitter last month. On August 14 2022, […]