Claim: Journalist Waqas Ahmed has started working at the International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF). Fact: Both Waqas Ahmed and the IHRF deny the claim. On 25 August 2022, a Twitter account called Standup Pakistan shared a tweet claiming that 29-year-old journalist Waqas Ahmed is the first Pakistani to work for the IHRF. This tweet gained […]
Claim: A video on social media shows “Sheikhs of Dubai” celebrating after India won the T20 match against Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2022. Fact: The claim is false. The video is doctored, and the celebration clip is from a football match in Kuwait in September 2020. It is not related to the cricket match […]
Claim: A photograph shows two men sitting atop what appears to be the ruins of a brick house that was destroyed by heavy flooding amid the recent unprecedented monsoon rains in Pakistan. Fact: The image is more than a decade old when, in August-September 2011, flood waters entered Badin, near Hyderabad in the Sindh province […]
Claim: A picture shows a child walking in neck-high water while carrying a dog in a steel bowl during the floods in Pakistan. Fact: The image is, in fact, from the Phung Hiep market in Vị Thanh in the Hậu Giang province of Vietnam. It was taken by Nguyen Thanh Ly on 28 November 2009. […]
Claim: A video on Facebook claims Shehbaz Sharif asked Imran Khan to help raise funds for flood victims in Pakistan. The video also claims the government urged Imran Khan to collect donations because large amounts of donations are being withheld by Pakistanis as well as foreign countries and organisations due to mistrust of the current […]
Claim: Twitter account @CMParvzElahi has been posting updates that appear to be from the Chief Minister of Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Fact: The account is not operated by Pervaiz Elahi or his team. Elahi’s verified Twitter account is @ChParvezElahi. Soch Fact Check received multiple tweets from a Twitter account, Ch Parvez Elahi (@CMParvzElahi), which has […]
Claim: A video of an apartment building being destroyed by giant waves was taken at Emaar Apartments in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase 8 in Karachi, Pakistan Fact: The claim is false. The video is from 2018 Spain where huge waves from a wind storm on the north coast of Tenerife in the Canary Islands […]
Claim: A video posted by various Indian media outlets shows a group of highly-charged men breaking a television after a cricket match between India and Pakistan during the Asia Cup 2022. Fact: The video is four years old when cricket fans in Karachi broke a television set in anger at Pakistan losing to Bangladesh in […]
Claim: Shi’ite rallyists attacked the peaceful Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat’s (ASWJ) rally in Khairpur on 11th Muharram. #StopSunniGenocide, #شیعہ_دہشتگردی_نامنظور [Shia terrorism is unacceptable] and #Shi’iteAttackonASWJRally were trending on twitter following the event. ASWJ media and supporters call Shia folk enemies of Islam and the state. ASWJ’s media team is using the clash to justify the implementation […]
Claim: A screenshot appears to show that Dawn published a news story on its website titled, “Flood in Pakistan is not due to Climate Change, but because people are not reading Quran.” Fact: The screenshot in question is doctored. Dawn did not publish any such news story. On 28 August 2022, Twitter user @Sidha_memer tweeted […]
Claim: A viral video on social media shows a small child being rescued in the aftermath of recent floods in Pakistan. Fact: The claim is misleading as the video is from 2020, not from recent floods. On 25 August 2022, journalist Hamid Mir posted a video with an Urdu caption that, when translated to English, […]
Claim: A video shows a Hindu woman being dragged by her hair and beaten in Pakistan. Fact: The incident occurred in January 2022 when a woman was tortured in Sialkot allegedly over a land dispute. Authorities arrested the culprits at that time. There was no communal angle to the assault. On 27 August 2022, Indian […]