Claim: A screenshot shows a tweet by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in which he says, “I am surprised that on the visit to Pakistan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan wanted me to have a media talk of his choice. I saw there that the Pakistani authorities do not care about the people.” Fact: Antonio […]
Claim: A photo shows a man salvaging his belongings from his home flooded by rainwater during the 2022 floods in Pakistan. Fact: The image is actually from the 2011 floods in Sindh and shows a man retrieving his belongings from his flooded home in Karachi, Pakistan. Photographer Fareed Khan took the picture on 13 September […]
Claim: A video of a mob attacking and forcibly entering the house of a Hindu family is being shared on social media with captions that claim the incident took place in the Telangana region of India. Fact: The claim is misleading. The incident did not take place in India but in Hyderabad, Pakistan, where a […]
Claim: A video shows darkness suddenly engulfing a market in Dera Ismail Khan, making people run and drivers turn on their headlights. Fact: The video is, in fact, not from the summer 2022 monsoon season in Pakistan, nor is it from Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but Balochistan. It was originally uploaded online in March […]
Claim: Journalist Waqas Ahmed has started working at the International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF). Fact: Both Waqas Ahmed and the IHRF deny the claim. On 25 August 2022, a Twitter account called Standup Pakistan shared a tweet claiming that 29-year-old journalist Waqas Ahmed is the first Pakistani to work for the IHRF. This tweet gained […]
Claim: A video on social media shows “Sheikhs of Dubai” celebrating after India won the T20 match against Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2022. Fact: The claim is false. The video is doctored, and the celebration clip is from a football match in Kuwait in September 2020. It is not related to the cricket match […]
Claim: A photograph shows two men sitting atop what appears to be the ruins of a brick house that was destroyed by heavy flooding amid the recent unprecedented monsoon rains in Pakistan. Fact: The image is more than a decade old when, in August-September 2011, flood waters entered Badin, near Hyderabad in the Sindh province […]
Claim: A picture shows a child walking in neck-high water while carrying a dog in a steel bowl during the floods in Pakistan. Fact: The image is, in fact, from the Phung Hiep market in Vị Thanh in the Hậu Giang province of Vietnam. It was taken by Nguyen Thanh Ly on 28 November 2009. […]
Claim: A video of an apartment building being destroyed by giant waves was taken at Emaar Apartments in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase 8 in Karachi, Pakistan Fact: The claim is false. The video is from 2018 Spain where huge waves from a wind storm on the north coast of Tenerife in the Canary Islands […]
Claim: A video posted by various Indian media outlets shows a group of highly-charged men breaking a television after a cricket match between India and Pakistan during the Asia Cup 2022. Fact: The video is four years old when cricket fans in Karachi broke a television set in anger at Pakistan losing to Bangladesh in […]
Claim: A screenshot appears to show that Dawn published a news story on its website titled, “Flood in Pakistan is not due to Climate Change, but because people are not reading Quran.” Fact: The screenshot in question is doctored. Dawn did not publish any such news story. On 28 August 2022, Twitter user @Sidha_memer tweeted […]
Claim: A viral video on social media shows a small child being rescued in the aftermath of recent floods in Pakistan. Fact: The claim is misleading as the video is from 2020, not from recent floods. On 25 August 2022, journalist Hamid Mir posted a video with an Urdu caption that, when translated to English, […]