Claim: A visual with the K-Electric’s logo states that the per-unit electricity charges effective “today” are PKR 42 during peak hours (6:00-10:30 PM) and PKR 24 during off-peak hours (the remaining time of the day). It is unclear which day or date the word “today” in the message refers to. Further, the text advises people […]
Claim: A lecturer at the Islamia College University (ICU) in Peshawar, who was shot dead on 19 February 2023, was involved in drug peddling. Fact: The lecturer, Dr Bashir Ahmad, was acquitted of all charges in a case of drug peddling that was brought against him in 2017. He was formally cleared in 2019, according […]
Claim: Shireen Mazari says the government of Pakistan has bowed to their US counterparts by allowing the Americans to use the country’s airspace for military purposes despite the proposal being rejected by the cabinet. Fact: The claim is false. No such development has taken place. Moreover, the visuals used by Mazari are not only old […]
Claim: A Twitter account claims that Section 144 has been imposed in Karachi and authorities have advised people to stay at home after more than 10 Baloch freedom fighters attacked the Karachi police chief’s office at Shahrah-e-Faisal, alongside an image of the site of the attack. Fact: No official announcement has been made about Section […]
Claim: A post includes a photo of two seemingly impoverished Pakistani children having a meal and text stating that people in the country are worried due to inflation, unemployment, and poverty while those in power are focused on political battles. Fact: The photo is not from Pakistan but Bangladesh; it is also not recent and […]
Claim: A Geo News post, which includes an image of dismembered ears among shorn hair, claims that a barber cut off the ears of a man who criticised Imran Khan. Fact: No such incident took place and the news card is doctored. Soch Fact Check spoke to multiple Geo News employees, who asserted that the […]
Claim: A video shows a giant sea wave hitting a beach in Turkey following an earthquake that hit the country on 6 February 2023. Fact: The clip is from 2017 and not related to Turkey at all. In fact, it shows a monster wave that slammed the North Beach in Durban in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal […]
Claim: A video shows an apartment building in Turkey collapsing after the massive earthquake that hit the country on 6 February 2023. Fact: The clip is, in fact, from 2021 and shows the collapse of a 12-story apartment block called Champlain Towers South in Miami-Dade in the US state of Florida. In the morning of […]
Claim: A video shows two children who were recovered alive from the wreckage of Yeti Airlines Flight 691, which crashed on 15 January 2023 in Nepal’s Pokhara town. Fact: The clip is neither recent nor linked to the 2023 Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal. On 16 January 2023, Facebook user ‘ÃShøk Ä Mågâr’ posted videos […]
Claim: A video shows Yeti Airlines Flight 691 as it crashed near Nepal’s Pokhara town on 15 January 2023, leaving at least 70 dead. Fact: The video is actually more than a year old and shows Ilyushin Il-112, a Russian military aeroplane, crashing at the Kubinka airfield in the Moscow Oblast region during a test […]
Claim: An image shows the state of people living in rural Sindh, hinting at the impoverished state of the province. Fact: The image is, in fact, more than a decade old and shows affectees of the 2010 Pakistan flood in a village in Dera Ghazi Khan in the country’s Punjab province. On 25 January 2023, […]
Claim: A picture shows rescue authorities, and others, in the aftermath of a blast on 30 January 2023 in the Police Lines neighbourhood of Peshawar, Pakistan. Yellow police tape is visible in the background of the scene of the bombing that left more than 30 dead. Fact: The image is, in fact, from another bombing […]