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No, this is not a real photo of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan with a religious minority leader after a 'secret meeting'

Published on 2 May 2019 at 09:25

An image shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts purports to be a screenshot of a television report showing Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan with a leader of a religious minority group after a secret meeting. The claim is false; the photo has been doctored from an original photo taken in November 2016 which did not include Imran Khan.

No, this video does not show Pakistani soldiers making a floating bridge over a river

Published on 30 April 2019 at 10:45Updated on 2 May 2019 at 08:01

A video of soldiers creating a floating bridge across a river has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in online posts, alongside multiple references to the Pakistani military including the words "I love Pak army" overlaid on the clip. The footage is being shared in a misleading context; the soldiers in the video are not from Pakistan, they are NATO troops during an exercise in Lithuania.

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

Published on 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.

No, this is not a video of Pakistani air force skydivers

Published on 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.

No, this is not a photo of Pakistan’s president sleeping in an airport lounge after taking office

Published on 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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