Sialkot

Claim: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) senior leader, Khawaja Asif has apologised to the family of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) former leader, Usman Dar. Fact: Khawaja Asif did not tweet an apology to the Dar family. A screenshot of his tweet circulating online is doctored.  Elections 2024 Ahead of the 2024 general elections, Imran Khan’s PTI faced […]

Claim: An official advertisement from the Government of Pakistan government’s says, “Dear world, thank you for playing with our balls.” Fact: A humorous image from 2018 recently reappeared online with user’sfalsely claiming it is  the Pakistan government’s official advertisement for the FIFA 2022 World Cup, held in Qatar. From 19 November, an image was shared […]

Claim: A video of a grand birthday party that had gone viral on social media is from Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari’s son’s birthday. Fact: The video is not from Zardari’s son’s birthday but from a birthday in Sialkot. It went viral on social media before the wrongly attributed claim as social media users shared it, commenting […]

Claim: A video shows a Hindu woman being dragged by her hair and beaten in Pakistan. Fact: The incident occurred in January 2022 when a woman was tortured in Sialkot allegedly over a land dispute. Authorities arrested the culprits at that time. There was no communal angle to the assault. On 27 August 2022, Indian […]

Claim: An image of a large crowd of people gathered at a venue at night allegedly depicts a recent rally held by former Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers in Sialkot. Fact: The image is not from PTI’s rally but rather from a March 2022 election rally in the Philippines. On 14 […]

Claim: Pakistan has been labeled the “most dangerous nation” on the cover page of Newsweek’s latest issue. The cover features an image of screaming clerics. Fact: While Newsweek did publish the cover in question, it did so in 2007, almost 14 years ago. On 6 December 2021, what was claimed to be the cover page […]