Claim: A viral video claims The New York Times published a story with the headline, ‘Due to security concerns in Pakistan, Pakistan’s former Army Chief General Bajwa moved to America with his family.’ Fact: The headline is doctored and the claim is false. The New York Times did not publish such a headline or story […]
Claim: A video shows Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif listening to a man in a UK court reading out accusations of misappropriation of British taxpayers’ money and government aid, which was intended for the 2005 flood victims. The allegations were originally revealed in a Daily Mail article in 2019, following which the PML-N leader filed […]
Claim: Assistant Commissioner Karor Lal Esan issued a letter to Tehsildar Muhammad Iqbal and Naib Tehsildars Naeem Ud Din, Muhammad Tahir and Baz Khan demanding an explanation for their failure to attend a rally organized to express solidarity with the Pakistan Army. The letter specified that in case of a lack of response, disciplinary proceedings […]
Claim: An image on social media claims to show the People’s Bus stuck in a sinkhole in Larkana. Fact: The claim is false. The photo actually shows a 2018 accident involving a Metro Bus. On 19 November 2022, a Facebook user shared an image of a bus in a sinkhole with an Urdu caption which, […]
Claim: According to Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, the Daily Mail UK has not been able to prove the allegations its journalist David Rose leveled against Shehbaz Sharif and his son-in-law. She also stated that the Sharif’s have “already won the case on the stage of presentation”, and the British publication deliberately delayed the defamation case. […]
Claim: A video shows a massive traffic jam amid Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former prime minister Imran Khan’s Haqeeqi Azadi March towards Rawalpindi. Fact: The video, which was actually taken over five years ago on 22 November 2017, shows the Interstate 405 in California blocked as Americans travelled ahead of Thanksgiving. On 26 November […]
Claim: A video shared on social media after PTI Chairman Imran Khan was attacked in Wazirabad claims that it shows Khan walking out of the hospital after he sustained bullet injuries. Fact: The video is old and resurfaced after the attack. The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority building can be seen behind Khan in the video, […]
Claim: A video shows former Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan walking inside Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre following an attack on him in Wazirabad on 3 November 2022. Fact: The video is from August 2021 when Khan visited SKMCH in Peshawar to inaugurate the newly established operating room suite and Intensive […]
Claim: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) medical director Dr Khalid Masud confirmed 12 torture marks on journalist Arshad Sharif’s body. Fact: Dr Khalid Masud told Soch Fact Check that he never confirmed whether the marks on Arshad Sharif’s body are a sign of torture. Pakistani investigative journalist Arshad Sharif was murdered in Kenya, four […]
Claim: Social media users speculate about the number of bullets that hit Imran Khan during the 3 November attack during his rally near Wazirabad. While some claim three or four bullets hit Khan, others allege that he faked his injuries and was not injured by any bullet. Fact: Imran Khan did not fake his injuries. […]
Claim: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has taken a U-turn from his claim that the United States is to blame for his ouster. Fact: Imran Khan did say that for him, this narrative is ‘over’ and ‘behind him’ but he did not back off from his allegations that Washington conspired to remove him from […]
Claim: A video shows Imran Khan being taken to the hospital on a stretcher following an attack on his rally in Wazirabad. Fact: The video does not show Khan. The man in the viral video has been misidentified. Fact or Fiction? On 3 November 2022, Twitter user Wajahat Kazmi shared a video claiming that it […]