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More than 60 members of the United States Congress have written a letter to President Joe Biden, calling on him to use Washington’s leverage with Islamabad for the release of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan. However, a social media…
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz dismissed “rumours spread on social media” related to the alleged on-campus rape of a student in Lahore, terming it a “fabricated story”. The news related to the alleged rape of the student went viral…
A digital news outlet ‘Startup Pakistan’ shared a picture of the FlyJinnah aircraft catching fire which proved to be fake and digitally generated. The post is captioned, “FlyJinnah Place Catches Fire During Touchdown at Lahore Airport.” Fact Check Pakistan found…
Former United States President Donald Trump made the false assertion that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets. Trump repeated the baseless claim during the presidential debate with Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. “In Springfield, they’re eating…
Punjab’s Information Minister Azma Bukhari has denied reports that controversial cleric Mufti Qavi has been appointed as ambassador of a vanity number plate scheme. In her post on the social media website X, formerly Twitter, Bukhari denied the news of…
Pakistani-American journalist Shaheen Sehbai has strongly refuted fake news over his death from the monkeypox virus. He was responding to a post on social media saying, “This post has been reported to X-Twitter, as false, fake and malicious. I’m fine.”…
ISLAMABAD: The news report of an alleged foreign woman found in Islamabad who claimed she was a citizen of Belgium and was sexually assaulted turned out to be false. Several media outlets had comprehensively reported that a foreigner woman, who…
A social media user shared the fake image of a woman who claimed to be a Belgian citizen and alleged that she was sexually assaulted in Islamabad. Faraz Pervaiz, a Pakistani-Christian who claims to be based in Bangkok, Thailand, shared…
Arshad Nadeem won gold in the Olympic men’s javelin to clinch Pakistan’s first Olympic medal in athletics. While Arshad received congratulations from across Pakistan and India, many revealed his journey and efforts to Olympic glory without much support. Many media…
A picture shared on social media platforms claimed that the house of Bangladesh cricketer Liton Das was set on fire by protestors as he belongs to the Hindu community. A user shared the images them with a caption saying, “He…
