Claim: Visuals show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu present at a White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and its army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. Fact: The pictures are digitally altered, while the video has been created synthetically, likely using AI tools. In late September 2025, social […]
Claim: A clip shows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif being intimate with a woman. Fact: This claim is false as the video originally depicts an unknown individual, not Shehbaz Sharif. On 6 October, an Indian user on X, whose posts have been previously debunked by Soch Fact Check, shared an alleged video (archive) of Prime Minister […]
Claim: Three videos show Pakistani soldiers criticising the armed forces’ actions, as well as Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir’s allegedly authoritarian leadership. The first shows an officer telling another that there was a need to take “a decisive step”. Two other clips depict senior officers sitting among colleagues while speaking on phone and lamenting the […]
Claim: A video shows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif abruptly being escorted out of a meeting by a law enforcement official. Fact: The video was likely created using a still image and is not an authentic video of the prime minister being escorted out. A video shared online shows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif being escorted out […]
Claim: A video shows an assistant commissioner of Punjab slapping a street hawker for illegal roadside vending. Fact: The claim is false. The video likely originates from Indian-administered Kashmir and shows a woman confronting/hitting a man for swindling money. X user @DrXiaKhan shared a video on X, writing, “ پنجاب حکومت پاکستان مبینہ طور غيرقانونی […]
Claim: Reuters has confirmed that Pakistan downed “42 Rafale jets” of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and that the publication “got access to debris” of all the aircraft “in the presence of DGISPR”. Fact: Reuters never published such a story nor posted it on its X account. The screenshot in question is doctored. In the […]
Claim: A Dawn.com article and a medical report allege that former Prime Minister Imran Khan was sexually assaulted in prison by an army official. Fact: Both the alleged medical document and the viral screenshot of a Dawn.com news report claiming Imran Khan was sexually assaulted in custody are fabricated. Soch Fact Check identified several inconsistencies […]
Claim: A viral video shows Pakistanis leaving India in large numbers. Fact: The claim is false. The video is not from the India-Pakistan border. In fact, it shows displaced Palestinians waiting at the Netzarim corridor along Salah al-Din highway in the Gaza strip following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in January 2025. On […]
Claim: India attacked Karachi Port on 8 May. Following the attack, the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) authorities admitted suffering major losses. Fact: Karachi Port was not attacked by India, and the KPT’s post on X claiming as such is false. The X post came after KPT’s official account was hacked briefly on the morning of […]
Claim: Amid the ongoing military escalation between India and Pakistan, DG ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry confirmed the loss of two JF-17 aircraft in a press conference held on the night of 8 May. Fact: The video is altered. Moreover, there is no evidence to suggest that the DG ISPR or Government of Pakistan […]
Claim 1: China initiated a war with India, ordering its military to seize control of Ladakh. Following the recent attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, a video (archive) was shared on YouTube featuring an image of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, along with a clip of Imran Khan. It included […]
Claim: US President Donald Trump criticised the Pakistani government over the injustices faced by Christians, and threatened to bring the community to the US if the issue was not addressed. Fact: The claim is false. The video is a deepfake, and there is no evidence that Trump made such a statement advocating for Christians in […]