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Fact-check: No, this Canadian university is not citing Nawaz Sharif as an example of corruption
Accounts of leading PTI members including former Deputy National Assembly Speaker Qasim Suri have been tweeting a 4-seconds long clip — claiming it is of a university lecture in Canada where the instructor is allegedly giving an example of Nawaz Sharif in discussing corruption
A close analysis of the 4 seconds long clip reveals that the information that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is being used as an example to discuss corruption is via a caption superimposed on the video. As for the audio, it does not support this claim and is incomprehensible.
The claim was initially shared by accounts seen as PTI supporters and sympathisers including several which claims to be news websites but are basically platforms used to disseminate and spread information that is often false and misleading
Even Pro Pakistani fell for this piece of disinformation and carried a story on it which had no sort of independent verification of the claim. All it carried was various tweets by (mostly PTI supporters) making this claim.