Claim: A screenshot circulating online shows that Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has confirmed the death of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and offered his condolences via a tweet. Fact: The screenshot shows a tweet by a fake account on X called @anwaar_kakkar. Kakar’s official account on the platform is @anwaar_kakar. Fact or Fiction: On […]
Claim: Zahir Jaffer, who beheaded Noor Mukaddam has been released and plans to go to the United States of America. Fact: Central Jail Rawalpindi confirmed that Zahir Jaffer has not been released, and is still imprisoned at the Adiala Jail. Advocate Shah Khawar, who is a legal counsel for Noor Mukadam’s family, also confirmed that […]
Claim: Cricket Australia dedicated its World Cup trophy to Imran Khan and invited him to Australia as a chief guest to present him with the Medal of the Order of Australia. Fact: Cricket Australia has confirmed to Soch Fact Check that no such letter or invitation has been sent to Imran Khan and that the […]
Claim: Pakistan has not supplied any arms to Ukraine, even through third parties. Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister also further said that any Pakistani arms in Ukraine must have reached there through the black market. Fact: Pakistan has supplied arms to Ukraine through private military contractors under a US military aid program. The fact stands confirmed […]
Claim: A wanted terrorist from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Mufti Qaiser Farooq, has been gunned down by unknown men in Karachi. He was one of the founding members of LeT, and a close associate of the terrorist, Hafiz Saeed. Fact: Mufti Qaiser Farooq was a religious scholar, gunned down by unknown men in a targeted attack in […]
Claim: British-Pakistani men are disproportionately involved in grooming and sexually exploiting young girls across the United Kingdom. Fact: The claim is misleading, according to a report published by the Home Office and the Independent Press Standards Organisation. There is no reliable evidence to suggest that British-Pakistani men are more likely to commit such crimes than men […]
Claim: Pro-Palestine students at Stanford University wrote an antisemitic message saying, “Come chat about how Jewish babies should be burned alive” in chalk on the ground while staging a sit-in on campus. Fact: The chalking was not done by students staging the sit-in, but by a member of the Jewish community who was trying to […]
Claim: PML-N leader, Ataullah Tarar attempted to persuade people in his constituency to vote for him by saying, “We’ve made an agreement (with the army to come into power). If you vote for someone else, your vote will be wasted. You won’t have any say in our government.” after which he was pelted with stones […]
Claim: A video shows Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President, Maryam Nawaz dancing. Fact: The video is a deepfake altered by replacing the dancer’s face with Maryam Nawaz’s to create the impression that she is the one dancing. It actually shows Indonesian model, Jihane Almira Chedid. How are deepfakes created? An article published by […]
Claim: Khursheed Shah has apologised for the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) “mistake” to join hands with Nawaz Sharif and remove Imran Khan’s government from power. Fact: The PPP parliamentarian did not apologise for ousting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) government. Instead, he apologised for forming a coalition with the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) government. PDM is a […]
Claim: Canada, Australia, and Saudi Arabia announced at the 2023 OIC meeting that they wanted the people of Kashmir to attain freedom and condemned the Indian forces’ operations in Kashmir as oppressive. The Hindustan Times in India published articles expressing severe concerns regarding the alleged statement by Mohammad bin Salman’s government and countries like the […]
Claim: Maulana Fazl ur Rahman has departed to Gaza with aid and is the first leader from a Muslim country to do so. Fact: Maulana Fazl ur Rahman has not left for Gaza, as confirmed by members of his party, the Jamaat e Ulema e Islami (F) – JUI(F). On 5 November 2023, an Instagram […]