Another example of a subtle disinformation campaign following the gruesome Nishtar Hopsital Multan discovery

Another example of a subtle disinformation campaign following the gruesome Nishtar Hopsital Multan discovery.

1. No official source has given any figure, least of all 500, as is being propagated now by some Twitter accounts. The footage shows 15-20 bodies.

2. There is nothing to suggest or indicate the ethnicity of the bodies found on the roof so any claim that they are Baloch has no basis in fact. If anything, they are likely to be unclaimed bodies since these usually wind up in hospital morgues.

An anonymous account that’s churns out tweets that seem to attack Pakistan and it’s government and state has done a tweet claiming that the bodies found on the roof of Multan’s Nishtar Hospital are those of residents of Balochistan. That is false and incorrect.

Following the discovery of several bodies dumped on the roof of Multan’s Nishtar Hospital after its morgue ran out of space, several accounts that engage in tweets seen as hostile to Pakistan and often tweet disinformation, have claimed that these are of Baloch persons

The truth is that the bodies were dumped on the roof after the hospital’s morgue ran out of space. That is inexcusable but that doesn’t mean that they are of Baloch persons. In fact, medical students have been quoted as saying that these are unclaimed bodies, usually of addicts.