Claim: Mohsin Naqvi says the United States has recently banned TikTok. Fact: Naqvi’s claim is incorrect. The US House of Representatives has passed a bill offering TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to divest its US assets or face a ban; the Chinese application has six months to comply. The said bill has yet to pass the […]
Claim: Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi has been appointed the principal of Aitchison College. Fact: The claim is not true as it is based on a satirical report. On 27 March 2024, Facebook user ‘Shahid Zulfiqar’ posted the visual of a news report claiming that the interior minister of Pakistan, Mohsin Raza Naqvi, has […]
Claim: Punjab Police has assaulted a group of women waiting in a line to get flour during the rule of Punjab’s new chief minister, Maryam Nawaz Sharif. Fact: The video is not recent and, therefore, not linked to the time period Maryam Nawaz has been serving as the chief minister of Punjab. It is, in […]
Claim: A picture of Maryam Nawaz Sharif during her oath-taking ceremony as Punjab’s chief minister shows her holding photos of Ziaul Haq and Gen Asim Munir. Fact: The picture is doctored. Maryam Nawaz is actually holding a picture of Nawaz Sharif. On 23 February 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @WarriorWCA posted (archive) a picture of […]
Claim: The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has announced that it will cut off gas supply from 8am to 4pm and from 12am to 4am during Ramzan. Gas supply will be ensured from 4am to 8am and from 4pm to 12am, it says. Fact: The SSGC has said it will carry out gas pressure profiling […]
Claim: In a 2022 X post, Maryam Nawaz Sharif praised then-Rawalpindi commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha by calling him an “asset” of Pakistan and criticised the “propaganda against him” by Imran Khan. Fact: Maryam Nawaz did not make a post on X praising Chattha; the screenshot showing as such is doctored. Moreover, Chattha was appointed as […]
Claim: A video shows police brutality towards women at a PTI protest against alleged election rigging outside the Sindh Assembly. Fact: The video has nothing to do with the PTI. It was first posted in 2021 and shows the misconduct of police officers — who were later suspended — against three women who were accused […]
Claim: An image shows the Saudi Iqama of Maryam Nawaz Sharif, categorising her as a “non-Muslim maid”. Fact: The image is doctored and does not show an authentic Iqama. On 23 February 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @AhmedFarkhanda posted (archive) a visual showing what seems to be an Iqama, or a residence permit that allows […]
Claim: Nawaz Sharif has admitted in an X post to being defeated in the 2024 general elections in Pakistan, saying he respects the public mandate and has advised his daughter, Maryam Nawaz, not to accept the chief ministership. Fact: The post was made by an imposter account. The X handle of Nawaz Sharif’s official account […]
Claim: Footage shows a flood wreaked havoc in Dubai after the inauguration of a Hindu temple. Fact: The footage, which comprises scenes from five different instances, is from 2023. It does not show Dubai. Moreover, reports of flooding surfaced on 12 February 2024, before the 14 February inauguration of a Hindu temple. On 17 February […]
Claim: A video shows the humble beginnings of Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as she arrives to meet her father at their ancestral home. The claim makes a comparison with the allegedly luxurious lifestyle of Pakistani politician Ishaq Dar. Fact: In the video, Sitharaman meets the Indian poet Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s great nephew, Shri K V […]
Claim: A statement on the 2024 general elections in Pakistan issued by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union (EU) threatens “sanctions on several army generals, including the Chief of Army Staff and his top 16 officers, along with members of PMLN, MQM, and other relevant parties, including Nawaz Sharif and his associates” […]