Claim: Imran Khan appeared older than usual in a recent video clip, most probably due to stress and anxiety. Fact: An AI generative filter was used on a recent video of Imran Khan to make him appear older than he is. On 2 June 2023, several social media users uploaded a 9-second video clip of […]
Claim: The Sharif family stole expensive cutlery from a Saudi hotel, says the hotel’s management. Fact: No such claim was made by the hotel management. The screenshots of 92 News and BBC News headlines claiming so are doctored. On 27 April 2023, a Twitter user posted four photos of news headlines purportedly from 92 News […]
Claim: A video shows Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khurram Dastgir Khan snubbing Awami National Party (ANP) leader Aimal Wali Khan by refusing to hug him during a political meeting. Fact: The video is cropped and taken out of context. Other videos from the same meeting show that the two leaders did embrace. On 14 […]
Claim: The Australian government has banned 50 military generals from Pakistan. Fact: The Australian parliament has not decided to ban Pakistani military generals from entering the country. On 5 June 2023, a Twitter user shared a video claiming that the Australian government has banned 50 military Generals from the Pakistan Army for being involved in […]
Claim: An image of Nawaz Sharif and King Muhammed Bin Salman is from Sharif’s Ramzan visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Fact: The image is from 2017, when Nawaz Sharif visited King Salman as the prime minister of Pakistan. On 21 April 2023, the Instagram account (@pakobserver) shared an image of King Salman of […]
Claim: Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son claims that PTI’s MPA Mian Alamdar Qureshi has returned the party ticket and is now contesting for the same constituency (PP 273) from the platform of Pakistan People’s Party Fact: PTI’s PP 273 candidate was not Mian Alamdar Qureshi; it was Iqbal Patafi, who is still contesting for the same […]
Claim: A video shows Bakhtawar Bhutto’s son cycling on the streets with several security protocol vehicles circling the child. Fact: A viral video shows a bicycle rally organized by the Turkmenistan Embassy in Islamabad, where a child on a small bicycle got left behind at the tail end of the rally alongside an ambulance […]
Claim: Journalist Waqas (@worqas) has claimed in a Twitter thread that 4 million Burmese people living in Saudi Arabia will be given Pakistani passports. Fact: The claim is false. The passport agreement signed on the sidelines of the Road to Makkah Program aimed at simplifying immigration procedures for Pakistani pilgrims. It did not involve any […]
Claim: Viral image shows a 9-year-old Hindu girl Reshma who was forcibly abducted, taken to a Sufi shrine, converted to Islam and married to a 45-year-old Muslim man from Jacobabad named Wazir Hussain Fact: The girl in the image was saved from a child marriage marriage by the Kashmore police. Her parents had sold her […]
Claim: Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google BARD can generate valid activation keys for Windows 10 and 11 operating systems. Fact: The claim is false. AI chatbots cannot produce valid activation keys for Windows 10 and 11 operating systems. Activation keys are unique codes that are generated by Microsoft and verified by its servers to […]
Claim: A video posted by Twitter user @OryaMaqboolJan shows a man shouting at the caretaker Director General of Information and Public Relations (DGIPR) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and claims that he is a government officer who lost his temper and said that the caretaker minister is overstepping his constitutional limits by holding this press […]
Claim: A video depicts the arrest of social media activist “Little Imran Khan” by the police. Fact: The full video shows that the boy was not arrested. A clip cropped from the video went viral on social media, with viewers believing he was arrested. . On 7 June 2023, several Twitter users claimed that law […]