Claim: President Arif Alvi took a delegation of 52 people, including his relatives, on a Hajj that the Pakistan government paid for with taxpayer money. Fact: The press secretary to the President confirmed that only seven members of Arif Alvi’s family were a part of this delegation and that the president paid himself for all […]
Claim: Imran Khan said that you can’t take his name on television because that would mean stripping Asim Munir’s father. Fact: Imran Khan did not make a statement about COAS Asim Munir’s father On 1 June 2023, a video went viral on Twitter, claiming that Imran Khan made a derogatory comment about Chief of the […]
Claim: The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution says the accused’s statement cannot be used against them in court, and they are allowed to change their statements. Fact: The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution does not say that the accused’s statement cannot be used against them in court, nor does it allow them to […]
Claim: Pakistan has banned women from going overseas on labour visas, preventing women from working in nursing, teaching, and hospitality through legal work permits. Fact: Pakistan has not banned women from going overseas on labour visas. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BE&OE), between 1971 and 2019, 40,807 Pakistani registered female […]
Claim: A video shows a woman being shot dead in the Manipur state of India. Fact: The video is old and not from Manipur. On 21 July 2023, the chief of Public News’ Karachi bureau, Samar Abbas, retweeted a video (archive) showing a woman in the Manipur state of India being forced to kneel down […]
Claim: A video shows a littered aisle, as well as a dirty toilet, including tissues, water, and human excrement at the edge of the chair commode, inside a British Airways flight from Pakistan to London. Fact: The video is neither recent nor from a British Airways flight from Pakistan to London. It is, in fact, […]
Claim: Malala Yousafzai “is silent about human rights abuses in Pakistan”. Fact: Soch Fact Check has identified at least 14 instances since the start of 2018 wherein Malala has spoken up about human rights or condemned human rights abuses in Pakistan. On 30 July 2023, Twitter user @MerruX responded to a tweet by Malala Yousafzai, […]
Claim: Two clips allegedly show journalist Imran Riaz Khan being welcomed by a crowd after he is found, with a voice-over narration claiming missing journalist Imran Riaz Khan was found on 30 July 2023, and after his release from alleged illegal detainment by the country’s authorities, former first lady Bushra Bibi gave him a grand […]
Claim: Pakistani doctors were called expensive and worthless by BBC News, Pakistani doctors do not meet international medical standards, and numerous facts and figures from a recent study in the Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences show their incompetence. Fact: These claims are false or misleading. BBC News has not published any such story or study […]
Claim: A viral tweet by @wikiboy5 and a Facebook post by Abdul Latif Awan claimed that former federal minister and PTI leader Zartaj Gul has joined the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Fact: Zartaj Gul did not leave PTI or join PPP. She remains a senior PTI leader and a supporter of Imran Khan. The post […]
Claim: A minor domestic worker who was allegedly tortured by a judge’s wife in Islamabad has died of her injuries. Fact: The girl is alive and recovering in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Lahore General Hospital, where she was shifted to on 26 July 2023 from Sargodha DHQ hospital. She also gave an interview […]
Claim: Mari Matta Mandir in Soldier Bazaar was not demolished; instead, a woman’s private property adjacent to the temple was destroyed with her consent. Fact: The structure that was demolished was not the woman’s house but the main area of the temple that had been encroached over the past few years. The majority (280 sq […]