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 […]
Claim: Canada has cancelled 28,000 work visas for skilled workers coming from India to Canada due to recent tensions between the two countries and has decided to issue these work visas to Pakistani skilled workers instead. Fact: There is no evidence to support the claim. The Canadian government and immigration authorities have not made any […]
Claim: An Israeli writer and government advisor claimed a hospitalised Palestinian man is acting and faking his injuries as he was exposed after he posted a video of himself appearing perfectly healthy a few days later Fact: The claim links two unrelated videos, filmed at different times and places. Most importantly, the hospitalised man in […]
Claim: A series of images show a Palestinian girl being rescued by three different people, each one from a different day, from locations that are 50 km apart from each other. Fact: The pictures do not show a Palestinian girl. They were taken in Aleppo, Syria in the aftermath of a bombing that took place […]
Claim: The Pakistani government has asked all banks to stop accepting donations for Palestine. A leaked internal memo from Bank Alfalah is being used to claim that the bank does not accept donations for the account of the Palestinian government. Fact: The Pakistani government has not asked banks to stop accepting donations for Palestine. Donations […]