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 shows Imran Khan being brought to Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Lahore, on a stretcher.
“#ImranKhan shifted to Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore and the treatment has started,” he tweeted.
The video was also shared by Naya Pakistan (@Naya_Pakistan_) with the caption, “ایسے بہادر دلیر لیڈر کو سلام [Salute to such a brave leader].”
The claim is false. Soch Fact Check took screenshots from the viral clip and enhanced it through a sharpening tool to make the footage clearer. We found that the man in the video lying on the stretcher is not Khan, as he has a moustache, whereas Khan is clean-shaven.
Digging further, with the help of keywords, we found another video of an injured man lying inside Imran Khan’s container after the attack. Soch Fact Check ascertained that this man and the one in the viral video are the same because a PTI flag has been used as a bandage around his right leg, and he is wearing the same shoes in both clips.
Virality
Soch Fact Check conducted a CrowdTangle analysis for the 30-day period leading up to 15 November 2022, using the following search term:
“ایسے بہادر دلیر لیڈر کو سلام [Salute to such a brave leader]”
The search term turned up 1,375 interactions across 22 posts on Facebook. The analysis revealed that PTI Sindh Haleem Adil Shaikh’s post received 749 likes, 244 shares and 13,000 views.
The video can be found here, here, here, here and here.
On Twitter, the video was also shared, including here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here, among others.
Wajahat Kazmi’s tweet received 682 likes, 158 retweets and 7 quote tweets. While Naya Pakistan’s tweet gained 14,300 likes, 4,343 retweets and 141 quote tweets.
Conclusion: The viral video does not show Khan being taken on a stretcher. In fact, it shows another man who was injured in the Wazirabad attack.