Claim: A video shows Sindh lawmaker Faryal Talpur saying that “normal people will be answerable to their God” on Doomsday, while deceased former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will be the one to judge PPP supporters. Fact: The video is manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The visuals used are from her speech in 2019. […]
Claim: Several social media posts claimed Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is engaged to Austrian princess Gloria von Habsburg, with some posts sharing images of the alleged couple together. Fact: The PPP Chairman refuted news about his engagement in a video statement. Soch Fact Check also found the images are AI-generated. On 30 August 2026, an Instagram […]
Claim: A picture shows an official of the Indian High Commission in London, UK, at a protest organised by the recently-banned Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC). Fact: The face of an unidentified protester has been replaced with an image of the Indian Ambassador to the Philippines. Social media posts falsely identified the man as an […]
Claim: A video shows Sindh Assembly’s Deputy Speaker Anthony Naveed, partially clothed with a drink in his hand and dancing to a song, with a woman joining him briefly. Fact: The video does not depict Naveed but an unidentified man. It has been online since as far back as 2019 and linked to multiple other […]
Claim: The Council of Common Interests (CCI) has cancelled the Six Canals Project on the Indus River after widespread protest in Sindh. No new canals will be built over the river. Fact: Whilethe project was temporarily paused in April 2025, it has not been formally cancelled. The CCI “decided that the federal government will not move […]
Claim: During a National Assembly session, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari admitted that Imran Khan is the true leader of Pakistan, and that the nation demonstrates this by voting for him in elections. Fact: The PPP Chairman did not say anything of the sort. The viral clip was created by editing and splicing an original speech […]
Claim: A video shows a rally held in Karachi to demand an independent Sindh nation that was met with violence from the police. Fact: The event was not a separatist protest but a Sindhi Culture Day rally that turned violent over participants refusing police directives. On 8 December 2025, an Afghan X (formerly Twitter) user […]
Claim: Motorbikes have been banned in Karachi. Fact: The claim is false and was spread by a news outlet using misleading language. Mayor Murtaza Wahab announced a transition from conventional to electric bikes only in the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). On 29 August 2025, Pakistani media outlet City21 posted (archive) a video showing Karachi Mayor […]
Claim: The newly-elected Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi has removed the Quaid-e-Azam’s portrait and the national flag from his office. Fact: The claim is false. The image accompanying the viral claim is a zoomed-in frame that does not show Jinnah’s portrait and the Pakistani flag. However, a review of the available footage revealed […]
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 […]