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 Facebook video claims that it shows footage of a blast in the Police Lines neighbourhood of Pakistan’s northwestern province of Peshawar in January 2023. Fact: The claim is false. The video was posted online as early as October 2021. On 30 January 2023, a powerful blast ripped through a mosque in Peshawar’s Police […]
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: Neo News reported that PMLN leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has quit the party. Fact: The claim is false. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi remains a senior leader within the PMLN and a close ally of Imran Khan. On 20 January 2023 several social media users took to Facebook and Twitter to announce that Shahid Khaqan Abbasi […]
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 […]
Claim: A news grab suggests that Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) chief Sirajul Haq said that his party will end corruption along with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Fact: The photo is from a 22 March 2022 meeting when Bilawal offered condolences to the JI chief over his mother’s death. The meeting was followed by a media talk […]
Claim: A photo shows the mother and grandmother of former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Supremo, Nawaz Sharif, and claims they played the drum in the streets of Amritsar in colonial India. Fact: The picture, in fact, shows two people from the khawajasira community. The image, which was taken between 1890 and 1894, […]
Claim: Maulana Yousaf Jamil, the son of Pakistan’s famed television preacher Maulana Tariq Jamil, has been critically injured in a traffic accident, a photo circulating on social media shows. Fact: Maulana Yousaf Jamil has clarified in a video statement that he is fine and has not been in an accident. The viral image is, in […]
Claim: A social media picture claims that it is an image of Major General Faisal Naseer, who serves as the Director General of Counter Intelligence at the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Fact: The claim is false. The man in the image is Lt. General Sardar Hassan Azhar Hayat, Corps Commander Peshawar; the image is falsely associated […]
Claim: A video shows Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari dancing to a Bollywood song at an event. Fact: Bilawal has been misidentified in the video. It features a media student Mehroz Baig who posted the video on his social media account on 12 January 2023. Fact or Fiction? On 22 January 2023, Pakistani-Canadian columnist […]
Claim: A photo shows Jamaat-e-Islami’s Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman taking an oath of loyalty from property tycoon Malik Riaz. Fact: The photo is from a 2020 meeting when the two parties reached an agreement following JI-led protests against Bahria Town for allegedly refusing to provide land allotments to some of its registrants. Fact […]
Claim: A photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin reading a book by Imran Khan titled ‘Pakistan: A Personal History’. Fact: The photo is doctored. In the actual photo from June 2016, Putin can be seen reading a different book. Fact or Fiction? On 6 January 2023, a social media user Mahnoor Malik, shared a photo […]