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No, this is not a genuine news article stating that Pakistani pilots received training on Qatari Rafale fighter jets

Published on Monday 22 April 2019 at 07:15
A post on a Pakistani defence website purports to share a genuine news article which says that Pakistani pilots received training on French-made Rafale fighter jets belonging to the Qatar air force. The claim is false; the original report does not mention Pakistan; a sentence referring to Pakistani officers has been inserted into the misleading post. The French ambassador to New Delhi has said the claims are false.
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No, this is not a video of Pakistani air force skydivers

Published on Wednesday 10 April 2019 at 06:30
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook in posts that claim it shows Pakistan air force skydivers performing aerial stunts. The footage is actually from California in 2015, when more than 200 skydivers set a new world record.
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No, this is not a photo of Pakistan’s president sleeping in an airport lounge after taking office

Published on Thursday 4 April 2019 at 09:45
Multiple online posts share a photograph of Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi, viewed tens of thousands of times, which they claim shows him sleeping in public at Islamabad airport after he took office in September 2018. The claims are false; the photo does show Alvi sleeping at the airport but it was taken in January 2018, before he became president.
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No, this is not a video of a suicide attack in Yemen

Published on Tuesday 2 April 2019 at 09:30
A video of people running from a building, with one of them engulfed in flames, has been viewed tens of thousands of times in Facebook posts that claim it shows a suicide attack at a mosque in Yemen in which 137 people died. The claim is false; the video actually shows a fire caused by a train crash in Egypt on February 27, 2019.
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