Claim: TRT World reported that a blast took place in Peshawar on 29 September 2023. Fact: The blast did not take place in Peshawar. The incident happened in Hangu – an area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, which is 111 km away from Peshawar city. Fact or Fiction? On 29 September 2023, TRT World posted […]
Claim: A Facebook video claims that it shows footage of a blast in the Police Lines neighbourhood of Pakistan’s northwestern province of Peshawar in January 2023. Fact: The claim is false. The video was posted online as early as October 2021. On 30 January 2023, a powerful blast ripped through a mosque in Peshawar’s Police […]
Claim: A picture shows rescue authorities, and others, in the aftermath of a blast on 30 January 2023 in the Police Lines neighbourhood of Peshawar, Pakistan. Yellow police tape is visible in the background of the scene of the bombing that left more than 30 dead. Fact: The image is, in fact, from another bombing […]
Claim: A grieving father is seen crying in a video after losing his only son in the March 2022 bomb blast that targeted a Shia mosque in Peshawar. Fact: The video is, in fact, from January 2021 and depicts a man crying after losing his son Ather Mushtaq in Indian administered Kashmir. The video is […]