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A provincial Pakistani government has not raised vehicle registration fees by more than 1,100%

Published on 11 September 2019 at 10:45

Multiple Facebook posts claim that the Pakistani government will impose enormous new taxes on the registration of motorcycles and rickshaws in southern Sindh province. The claim is false; no new taxes have been levied, according to government websites; the federal taxation authority has said there are no plans to introduce the tax cited in the misleading Facebook posts.

This is a photo from a 2013 protest in Karachi, not a woman insulting a Pakistani soldier in Kashmir

Published on 28 August 2019 at 10:50

A photo of a woman wearing a black burqa offering bangles to a Pakistani soldier has been shared thousands of times on Facebook with text suggesting that it happened during an August 2019 protest in Kashmir. The claim is false; this is a photo from a 2013 protest in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

These two men were arrested on suspicion of taking a $62 bribe, not for putting up banners in support of India

Published on 23 August 2019 at 07:00

A photo of two men in handcuffs has been widely shared on social media and news websites alongside claims that one of them is an opposition party activist arrested for putting up pro-India posters in Islamabad. The claims are false; both men were arrested on corruption charges.

This is a video of Algerian football fans, not a rally in Washington for the Pakistani prime minister

Published on 22 August 2019 at 09:00

Multiple Facebook posts and tweets have shared a video of an enthusiastic crowd cheering and waving flares at a stadium, alongside claims that it depicts a rally in Washington addressed by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. The claims are false; the footage shows Algerian football fans.

This is a doctored video of Narendra Modi watching Donald Trump meet Imran Khan

Published on 7 August 2019 at 09:35

A video has been viewed more than 2.2million times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp which purport to show India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi watching a live television broadcast of US President Donald Trump meeting Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House. The claim is false; the video has been doctored from earlier footage which shows Modi watching the launch of India's second lunar exploration mission.

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