Tensions in Balochistan have persisted for years, with ongoing disputes between separatist groups and Pakistani authorities. The region faces issues related to political representation, economic development, and military presence, all of which contribute to a complex and volatile situation. Recently, an image of a destroyed plane has been circulated among Social Media Users claiming that […]
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Tensions are soaring between Pakistan and Afghanistan as Pakistan’s recent airstrikes targeting the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) within Afghan borders have sparked retaliatory attacks from both Pakistani and Afghan sides and heightened conflict across Durand Line. Recently, a video allegedly depicting Afghan forces shooting down a Pakistan Army Helicopter along the Durand Line in Kost is […]
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Conflict at Pakistan-Afghanistan border has further and hostility along Durand Line at Pakistan-Afghanistan border has further intensified since Pakistani airstrike in Afghanistan and the retaliation of Afghan forces. 11 Pakistani soldiers were killed in fresh border clashes with Taliban. However, several old videos and images are being shared among social media users with context the […]
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Days after Pakistan launched airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Paktika province on December 25, 2024, killing 46 people, Afghan forces retaliated by targeting several points inside Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of 19 Pakistani soldiers. However, several old videos and images are being shared among social media users with context to a series of clashes between Pakistani […]
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Days after Pakistan launched airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Paktika province on December 25, 2024, killing 46 people, Afghan forces retaliated by targeting several points inside Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of 19 Pakistani soldiers. However, recently a 17 seconds long video of a plane crashing is being shared as a Pakistani Airforce chopper crashing being shot […]
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Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Paktika province on December 25, 2024, killed 46 people. Reportedly Afghan forces retaliated by targeting several points inside Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of 19 Pakistani soldiers. However several images and videos are being shared among social media users with context to the recent Pakistani airstrikes strikes in Afghanistan and the […]
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Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Paktika province on December 25, 2024, killed 46 people. Reportedly Afghan forces retaliated by targeting several points inside Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of 19 Pakistani soldiers. However several images and videos are being shared among social media users with context to the recent Pakistani airstrikes strikes in Afghanistan and the […]
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Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s supporters gathered to protest his imprisonment at D-Chowk in Islamabad on 24 November 2024. Responding to his call, PTI leaders and supporters mobilized from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and parts of Punjab, converging on the capital. The government responded to the protests with a heavy crackdown, deploying security forces, imposing a lockdown […]
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After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, many prominent people including several politicians fled the nation and took refuge in different countries. Afghan singer Hasiba Noori also fled the nation after Taliban takeover in August 2021 and took refuge in neighboring Pakistan. Recently, many social media users claimed that unknown individuals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan […]
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Following a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan, four people were killed and dozens more injured. This earthquake occurred on March 21, 2023, at 9:30 Tuesday night, Kabul time. Based on published reports, the epicenter of this earthquake was in Jorm district of Badakhshan province, and its tremors were also felt in Pakistan, Tajikistan and India. […]
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Clashes erupted between Pakistani police and supporters of Former Pakistani Prime minister Imran Khan in the aftermath of police trying to arrest the politician. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and police clashed on March 15, in Lahore’s Zaman Park area. An image is being recently shared on social media with context to clashes at Zaman park. […]
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At Least 19 people were killed and more than 200 injured after powerful earthquakes strike parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Several buildings were destroyed due to the 6.5 magnitude earthquake last week. Following the earthquakes, some old images and videos were shared among social media users with context to the recent quakes. A video is […]
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After Sri Lanka, Pakistan is sinking into a deep economic crisis. Pakistani currency has been to a record low and inflation is shooting up. However, misinformation is also being shared on social media in relation to the Economic Crisis in the neighbouring country of Pakistan. Recently an image of a crowd is being shared with […]
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American troops left Afghanistan after almost 20 years of presence and Taliban took over Kabul on 15 August 2021. Since then Afghanistan’s economy has been crumbling due to heavy economic sanctions posed by the USA on Afghanistan. Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a failed state and Taliban has been asking the world community […]
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North Waziristan is a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan bordering neighboring Afghanistan. There are constant tensions going on between Taliban and Pakistan’s Armed Forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa along the border. Recently there have been a series of Clashes between Pakistani soldiers and Taliban along the border areas. However, a lot of misinformation is also […]
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Continuing the imposition of restrictions on the education of girls in Afghanistan, the Taliban also closed the doors of universities on them by publishing a newsletter. On Tuesday evening, December 20, the Ministry of Higher Education under the Taliban administration has issued a newsletter and ordered all educational institutions in the country to suspend the […]
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Self-proclaimed government of Taliban is being accused of violating human rights and committing atrocities against Afghan civilians. Women are being forced to stay behind closed doors and not allowed to even avail basic human needs like education. An image of a woman with injuries on her body is being shared widely on social media with […]
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Flash floods in Afghanistan have ravaged many parts of the country claiming many lives. The DariVOA reported on August 15, 2022 that more than 30 people died as the result of floods in SiahGerd and Shinwari districts of Parwan province. However, after the flood many social media users started sharing images of the flood. Some […]
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A number of Pakistani journalists and social media users have claimed Amrullah Saleh and Sami Sadat visited Islamabad recently. They also speculated that Pakistani government could possibly play the role of a mediator between the Resistance and Taliban. However, General Sadat has denied these claims. In response to the news, Sami Sadat described Pakistan as […]
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A video of a fighter jet flying across a valley has gone viral on Social media with claims that the visuals are from Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan and that the jet is from Pakistan. Facebook Post | Archived Post Fact Crescendo found that the video is actually from Mach Loop, a Welsh training circuit where […]
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An image has gone viral on social media with a claim that the image is of the aftermath of a bomb blast that happened recently in Gilgit-Baltistan, which killed many Pak army soldiers. However, when we did a fact check on the image, we found that the image has no relation with Pakistan and in […]
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The image of a Pakistani transgender TikTok star is being shared as the image of Afghan Ambassador’s daughter Silsila Alikhil who was kidnapped and tortured on July 16, 2021 in Islamabad while she was on her way home in a taxi. This image is being shared widely as Silsial Alikhil by some Social media users […]
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The Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) has shared a map of Afghanistan to represent the areas occupied by Taliban and the ones in control of the Afghan government. However, these maps did not show Wakhan and Pamir. Wakhan and Pamir in the North East are an integral part of Afghanistan and hence this move invited […]
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