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YouTuber and self-styled independent journalist Asad Toor claimed that UAE President Mohammad Bin Zayed inquire Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif about Imran Khan. Toor claimed that UAE President told PM Shehbaz Sharif that UAE Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid, is…
There has been controversy over the death of Pakistan TI protesters during the party’s protests in Islamabad that culminated on November after a crackdown. PTI leaders claimed that a number of the party’s supporters been killed allegedly due to firing…
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…
