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No, this is not a photo of a shrine to the Prophet Mohammad in a mountain cave

Published on 15 February 2019 at 04:15

A photograph posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times purports to show a shrine to the Prophet Mohammad in a mountain cave. Other versions of the image which have been shared tens of thousands of times show statues of the Hindu god Shiva or the Buddha in the same location. The photographs are all doctored versions of an original image of a cave in China’s Tianmen mountains, where there is no statue or shrine.

No, the Pakistani government has not granted the Lahore airport a license to sell alcohol

Published on 7 February 2019 at 08:00

Media reports which have been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook claim that the international airport in the eastern city of Lahore will soon start selling alcohol after being issued an official liquor license. The claim is misleading, a new luxury hotel that is being built close to -- but not at -- the airport has been granted a liquor license.

No, this is not a photo of Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar giving Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan a donation to build a dam

Published on 6 February 2019 at 09:30

A photo that has been shared thousands of times on Facebook appears to show three of the world’s top footballers handing Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan a large cheque, purportedly to help build two new hydroelectric dams. The claim is false and the image has been doctored from an original photograph posted on Khan’s official Twitter account.

No, this Pakistani police officer was not killed after speaking up against corruption

Published on 4 February 2019 at 08:00

Posts that have been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter contain video and photographs they claim show a Pakistani police officer who was murdered for speaking out about police corruption after a deadly counter terrorism raid in Sahiwal city in eastern Punjab province. The claims are false; the images have no connection to the Sahiwal raid, and the police officer has not been killed.

No, a car cannot be run on energy produced from water

Published on 30 January 2019 at 04:00

A Pakistani inventor claims he can run a car on water in a video that has been viewed more than a million times since it was posted December 2018 on Facebook. The footage is actually from 2012, when the purported invention first attracted widespread attention in the South Asian country. But experts say the water car is a "fraud", it violates basic scientific laws, and has never been implemented.

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