Claim: Twitter account @CMParvzElahi has been posting updates that appear to be from the Chief Minister of Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
Fact: The account is not operated by Pervaiz Elahi or his team. Elahi’s verified Twitter account is @ChParvezElahi.
Soch Fact Check received multiple tweets from a Twitter account, Ch Parvez Elahi (@CMParvzElahi), which has been posting updates that appear to be orders from Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) leader and the Chief Minister of Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
The tweets from @CMParvzElahi range from updates regarding Pakistan’s Punjab province, notifications, decisions and orders related to government officials, praise for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its chairperson, former prime minister Imran Khan, as well as other dubious orders.
Fact or Fiction?
The Twitter account @CMParvzElahi was created in January 2021 but has been posting updates since 26 July 2022. The earliest tweet appears to be this one, assuming any previous tweets have not been deleted.
The account has tweeted jokes and made jibes at other politicians, such as this tweet about Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and this one about the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). On the day the Supreme Court declared Pervaiz Elahi the Chief Minister of Punjab and the election of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hamza Shahbaz Sharif as void (live streamed here), its posts appeared as if written by either a reporter or blogger (some examples can be seen, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
However, Pervaiz Elahi’s real Twitter account was set up in April 2017 and has now been verified by Twitter.
Virality
Soch Fact Check conducted a CrowdTangle analysis for the period starting 1 July 2022 and ending 30 August using the search term, “@CMParvzElahi”.
We found a whopping 216,009 interactions across more than 740 posts on Facebook. This post on Facebook was shared over 27,000 times. We also found an Instagram post available here.
Conclusion: The account is not operated by Pervaiz Elahi or his team. Elahi’s verified Twitter account is @ChParvezElahi.