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, […]
Claim: Al Jazeera reported “Pakistan provides air corridor for US military flights to and from Afghanistan”. Fact: Al Jazeera did not confirm the news. The Al Jazeera logo and headline have been doctored onto the image to make it look like a screenshot from Al Jazeera TV. On 2 August 2022, US President Joe Biden […]
Claim: A video of a helicopter plunging into floodwaters shared on social media claims to show the Pakistan Army helicopter that crashed in Balochistan in August 2022. Fact: The post is false as the video is from January 2022 recorded in Afghanistan, not from the recent helicopter crash in Balochistan, Pakistan. Fact or Fiction? On […]
Claim: A picture shows former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed lying in a hospital bed after it was claimed he checked in there to “hide” from the consequences of his past actions. Fact: The picture is not recent and is, in fact, from 2019, when Sheikh Rashid was admitted to a hospital after experiencing pain […]
Claim: A screengrab of a news bulletin tweeted by Shireen Mazari claims that “Imran Khan’s victory in Pakistan’s elections will be India’s loss”. In the caption of her tweet, Mazari also claims that the US and India fear Khan and that the US is behind the regime change in Pakistan. Fact: The claim is misleading […]
Claim: The title of a Facebook video claims that two biological siblings in Pakistan married each other. Fact: The married couple in the video are not biological siblings. They were born to different parents; they do not have the same father or mother, nor are they related to each other. On 29 July 2022, Facebook […]