Month: March 2021

False

Tableeghi Jamaat was not attacked in Winder, Balochistan.

We established correspondence with the DPO Chief’s office of district Las Bela, under which the area of Winder falls. Officer Abdul Rasheed reported that no attack on the tablighi jamaat was brought to their notice on 15 March 2021.

No Comments

False

Meesha Shafi was not sentenced to three years in prison.

It is clear from the court order issued one day before that the legal proceedings have not progressed to the point where a verdict would be declared.

No Comments

Disinformation Campaign

The Indian manufactured AstraZeneca doses were neither expired nor returned

In the video of the Health Minister’s address attached in the article, it is clear that he says “I wish to put again on record that the doses of the vaccine, the AstraZeneca vaccine have not expired. The expiry date is still a few weeks away and is on April 31st” which further disproves the claim that vaccine doses delivered had expired and were therefore returned back to India.

No Comments

False

MPA Shamim Akhtar is not Nawaz Sharif’s mother.

Nawas Sharif’s mother died on November 22, 2020. Following her death, a twitter user claimed that she had served as a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab in the past. Basic Fact Check confirmed that MPA Shamim Akhtar who who was a member of the Punjab Assembly in the time period 2013-2018 was not Nawaz Sharif’s mother.

No Comments