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Reports were circulating on social media that the branch of a popular restaurant franchise, McDonald’s, was closed down in Peshawar. The restaurant chain has been in the crosshairs after being embroiled in the Israel-Palestine conflict, with widespread calls for boycotting…
There is no official confirmation from any government source, either in Greece or Pakistan, that “298 Pakistanis perished in the boat tragedy”. The report in The Guardian quotes “local reports” as saying that 298 Pakistanis drowned but local reports in…
Former Member of the National Assembly and a recent addition to the PTI Jamshed Dasti has tweeted a picture of what he claims is a dam in Mohmand district in KP and praised the former government of Imran Khan for…
This tweet spreading a false claim that the child bicycling is none other than “Zardari’s nawasa” was responded to by Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari who pointed out that her older child is 20 months old and too young to ride a…
A so-called screenshot being circulated on social media by mostly PTI supporters claiming that overseas Pakistanis from the US & Canada won’t be able to use their NICOP cards when visiting Pakistan is fake. It is riddled with grammar errors…
An 11-second clip of Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been shared by several pro-PTI accounts which they claim shows him supporting pro-rich polices – the clip is taken from a speech where the FM was in fact saying such…
In the matter of a English exam paper set for student at Comsats University in Islamabad, we can confirm that the paper is NOT fake. It was indeed given to student and a complaint was made against the teacher. An…
Reports have emerged on social media in Pakistan and on various WhatsApp groups claiming that Pakistan is likely to be struck by a similar earthquake following the tragedy in Turkey. There is absolutely no truth to these claims. Earthquakes cannot…
People should be careful of sharing videos of what they may think is the Turkey earthquake – we have detected at least two wrong clips shared by people & both had gone viral. One was a condominium collapse from Florida…
A so-called ‘Weather Updates’ page on Facebook has claimed that temperatures as low as 0 Celsius have been forecasted for Karachi over the weekend. This is fake news. All major international weather forecasters & the Pak Met Office are…
