Claim: A social media post suggests that Geo News reported, “No one knows General Asim Munir better than me, he is a human being, Imran Khan.” Fact: The post doing the rounds on social media is doctored. Geo News never reported or shared any such story. Fact or Fiction? On 9 April 2023, Twitter user […]
Claim: A social media post of a news clipping from a newspaper states that 21 Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) candidates returned their party tickets before the election. Fact: The claim is false as the news clipping is not from 2023. The news was published in the Urdu daily newspaper Khabrain during the 2018 general […]
Claim: Asle Toje, the deputy chair of the 2022 Norwegian Nobel Committee, has said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the biggest contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. Fact: While Toje praised India and Modi in different interviews, he did not endorse the Indian prime minister as the biggest contender for the Nobel Peace […]
Claim: A Twitter post claims that it shows Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeting Nawaz Sharif at the airport. Fact: The claim is false. The picture is from 2016, when Sharif was prime minister and attended the North Thunder Exercise, a joint venture of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia military forces. On 11 April […]
Claim: A picture claims to show that a woman, wearing the PTI’s colours and holding the party’s flag, is Sahar Ata Bandial, the daughter of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Umar Ata Bandial. Fact: The picture is of Tayyaba Raja, a PTI supporter and social media influencer. It does not show Sahar Bandial. On 2 […]
Claim: Photos show former US president Donald Trump being arrested in New York. Fact: The photos doing the rounds on social media are not real. It was generated by Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) art tool Midjourney. Fact or Fiction? On 21 March 2023, Twitter user @yoncecapital posted a photo claiming […]
Claim: A picture shows Imran Khan “escaping” arrest at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore by climbing out through a ladder. Fact: The picture is unrelated to Khan and, in fact, shows Hamza Shahbaz Sharif in 2019. On 5 March 2023, Jawad Ahmad — singer-turned politician and chief of the Barabri Party Pakistan (BPP) — […]
Claim: A visual shows pictures of three different PTI workers allegedly injured during clashes with the police in Lahore on 8 March 2023. Fact: The picture in the centre is from 2014 and is unrelated to the PTI, while the other two photos are, in fact, of the same individual but from different times and […]
Claim: A video shows the private jail of Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran, where the Barkhan murder victims were kept. Fact: The clip has no relation to Sardar Khetran, Balochistan or the Barkhan tragedy. It was first uploaded to TikTok on 14 February 2023 by @urbexkev, who confirmed to Soch Fact Check that it shows tunnels […]
Claim: A video shows Sahar Bandial, the daughter of Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, dancing with a group of young women. Fact: The video does not show Sahar Bandial, who confirmed to Soch Fact Check that she is not any of the women in the viral clip. On 1 April 2023, Facebook page ‘چوہدری زمان […]
Claim: An image featuring a large group of people, law enforcement officers, and multiple barricades is from Zaman Park, Lahore, where supporters of Imran Khan have gathered to prevent authorities from arresting him. Fact: The picture is, in fact, from February 2023 and shows people gathered outside the Lahore High Court. It does not show […]
Claim: A video shows a group of police officers in Lahore in a verbal altercation with women belonging to the PTI, with one of the cops yelling, “Don’t touch me”, and another pushing a woman. The clip goes on to show police baton-charging people near a container and behind barbed wire at the scene. Fact: […]