Claim: A video published on Twitter claims that it shows Azam Swati’s daughter demanding justice for her father after Swati alleged that an “objectionable” leaked video of him and his wife leaked from their stay at Quetta judicial lodge.
Fact: The claim is false. The person in the video is not Azam Swati’s daughter.
On 6 November 2022, a Twitter page posted a video with an Urdu caption that translated into English reads: “Azam Swati’s daughter is crying for justice. Let’s all make this voice strong.”
The 56-second video features a person talking about the current political condition and demanding that Chief Justice of Supreme Court Umar Atta Bandial take action regarding the attack on former PM Imran Khan and the alleged video of senator Azam Swati.
News of this video went viral after Swati, in a press conference, alleged that his wife received an “objectionable” video recording of the couple during their stay at the judicial lodges in Quetta, Balochistan.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check found a comment from Twitter user @Rafiea_Arshad who asserts that she is the person in the video and that Azam Swati’s daughter. Rafiea also shared another video where she explicitly states that she is not Swati’s daughter.
Soch Fact Check also reach out to Farah Swati, the daughter of Azam Swati for clarification and she also confirmed that the girl in the video is not related to the Swati family.
Virality
Soch Fact Check conducted a CrowdTangle analysis for the 7-day period from 3 to 9 November using the following search term:
- “اعظم سواتی صاحب کی بیٹی انصاف کیلٸے فریاد کررہی ہے”
The results showed that the search term received 8,000 interactions across 160 posts on Facebook. The video with most interactions can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
On Twitter, the video posted by Imran Tigers garnered 16,200 retweets, 34,500 likes and 293.3 k views between 6 – 9 November. It is also available here, here, here and here.
Conclusion: The video circulating on social media claiming that it shows the daughter of Azam Swati is misleading. The video does not belong to any member of the Swati family.