Claim: A video shows an Afghan migrant admitting to damaging public property and committing violence on the instructions of Pakistani nationalist leaders. Fact: The caption of the post makes a false claim. The migrant, who returned to Afghanistan, did not confess to anything of the sort in the video. Speaking in Pashto, he actually says, […]
Claim: A video shows Yemen’s army attacking Israel. Fact: Though military tensions have recently escalated between Israel and the Houthis, the video in the claim is unrelated. A close analysis of its visuals and past patterns of misinformation suggest that the video is most likely from the videogame Arma 3. On 16 March […]
Claim: A video shows police prevented Muslims from praying on Eid in Indian occupied Kashmir. Fact: The video shows Indian police officers violently enforcing COVID-19 lockdown by hitting people with sticks in 2020. On 31 March 2025, a post on Facebook showed a video of police officials threatening and hitting people with canes. […]
Claim: Cola Next is a product of Coca-Cola. Fact: The claim is false. Cola Next is a Pakistani brand owned by Mezan Group, and not Coca-Cola. Currently, it is not listed on the BDS boycott list. The claim likely surfaced due to a glitch in the No Thanks app and the similarity between the names […]
Claim: A news anchor from the UAE confronted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for performing Umrah with his family on state expenses during an interview. Fact: The claim is false; the viral video has been dubbed over. The video in the claim is from an interview which dates back to 2023, and it does not contain […]
Claim: A video shows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tripping and falling at a meeting from his recent visit to the Gulf states. Fact: This claim is false. The video does not show Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tripping and falling. Instead, it shows Lebanese President Michel Aoun falling at the Arab League Summit in 2017. […]
Claim: Journalist Waseem Badami recently asserted that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had consolidated all of Maulana Tariq Jameel’s bank accounts, totalling PKR 49 billion. Fact: Waseem Badami’s video clip, originally recorded in 2023, has been repeatedly circulated on social media without proper context. In 2023, the FIA issued press clarifications—and later reiterated to Soch […]
Claim: A video on social media shows the poor state of Services Hospital in Lahore under the leadership of Chief Minister of Punjab Maryam Nawaz. Fact: The claim is misleading as the video is from July 2023 when the interim government was in charge. The incident shown in the video is not recent nor is […]
Claim: Video circulating on social media allegedly shows Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and Bushra Bibi kissing. Fact: The claim is false as the video was created using artificial intelligence (AI). On 11 December 2024, a reel (archive) was posted on Facebook with the caption, ویڈیو لگانا میرا کام تھا اب وائرل کرنا […]
Claim: A video shows a huge crowd in London protesting against Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir during his recent visit to the United Kingdom. Fact: The claim is misleading because the video is from November 2024 and is actually from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) protest in Brescia, Italy. On 20 February 2025, an X account, […]
Claim: The Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi freed Imran Khan from jail. Fact: This claim is false. Khan has not been freed from jail. On 12 November 2024, a post on Facebook shared a video, claiming that the Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi had released former Prime Minister Imran Khan from […]
Claim: During a medical test, it was found that Dr Mahrang Baloch is transgender. Fact: There is no evidence to support the claim that Dr Mahrang Baloch is transgender. On 23 March, a day after Dr Mahrang Baloch’s arrest in Quetta, a post on X (formerly Twitter) claimed that she was transgender. […]