Claim: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed independent candidate, Meher Bano Qureshi emerged victorious from NA-151 Multan IV, defeating Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Ali Musa Gillani after a recount of votes. Fact: As per Form 49 dated 10 February 2024, Ali Musa Gillani was declared the winner. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued a notification of his […]
Claim: Sher Afzal Marwat supports the call for a boycott of the 2024 general elections in Pakistan. Fact: The video of Sher Afzal Marwat is doctored using artificial intelligence (AI). In the original video that was used as a source of the deepfake, Marwat asked people to vote for the PTI’s National Assembly candidate from […]
Claim: JUI-F’s chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman challenged the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), General Asim Munir after his party lost majority seats in the 2024 general elections. Fact: The claim is misleading as the video clip is from an interview by Asma Shirazi recorded in December 2023. Elections 2024 Pakistan’s general elections were held […]
Claim: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is set to form an alliance with PTI-P — the party’s breakaway faction led by Pervez Khattak — to form a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Fact: The claim is false. Negotiations between PTI and PTI-P have been confirmed by the parties’ leaders, but the final announcement to form a government […]
Claim: PTI lawyer Advocate Naeem Haider Panjutha called for a boycott of the 2024 general elections in a newly-issued video statement. Fact: The audio of the clip is seemingly altered, with remarks that Panjutha did not make. In the original video, which was posted on 31 December 2023 and is over five minutes long, he […]
Claim: Former finance minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Taimur Saleem Khan Jaghra was shot and shifted to a hospital. Fact: The claim is false, as Jaghra himself confirmed in a post on his X account confirming that he is fine and that the news on social media is fake. Elections 2024 Pakistan’s general elections were held […]
Claim: In 2018, when Ali Musa Gillani contested elections against Zain Qureshi in NA 157, a recount was demanded due to a 4,000-vote margin, and more than 18,000 votes were rejected at the time. Fact: The actual number of rejected votes was 4,233 as per Form 47 while the margin of victory stood at 6,541. […]
Claim: The courts have declared Salman Akram Raja’s victory. Nawaz Sharif has now lost another seat and he will continue to lose more. Fact: The Lahore High Court issued a stay order on the election results from NA-128, Salman Akram Raja’s constituency, according to the court documents obtained by Soch Fact Check. The Election Commission […]
Claim: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has issued a letter congratulating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Ali Amin Gandapur for being nominated as the candidate for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) chief minister. Fact: The letter circulating on social media is fake. The TTP did not issue any such letter. Elections 2024 According to the results issued by the ECP, independent […]
Claim: Google Trends predicted who would win the 2024 general election in Pakistan and that data proved that “PTI is on top”. Fact: Google Trends shows a summary of searches by people around the world; it can be narrowed down according to categories, time period, and location, among other filters. The FAQs page of Google […]
Claim: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has declared the election results for three seats won by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) null and void, including the seats NA-119 and PP-159, won by Maryam Nawaz Sharif in the General Elections 2024. Fact: Maryam Nawaz’s victory has not been overturned. The court dismissed the petitions challenging the election […]
Claim: Javed Akhtar Khan Lund claims that he won from the national assembly constituency NA-184 and provincial assembly constituency PP-286, Dera Ghazi Khan I. Fact: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate, Abdul Qadir Khan won from NA-184 DG Khan-I while the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidate Ali Muhammad is the runner up. Javed was not declared winner […]