On March 3, Republic TV published a report claiming that Baloch Republic Army (BRA) had attacked and destroyed 3 Pakistani Army posts. It was claimed that BRA fighters attacked the…
Surendra Poonia passes off unrelated photo as teacher recently killed in France
BJP member Surendra Poonia shared a photograph of protestors holding ‘Refugees Welcome’ placards. Their faces are masked. Poonia alleges that the man in the middle is French teacher Samuel Paty…
BJP member Surendra Poonia falls for ‘oranges banned in Cyberabad’ satire
BJP member Major Surendra Poonia shared an image (archive) that looked like a newspaper front page with the headline, “Cyberabad Police bans the sale of oranges in the city”. Poonia…
Major Gaurav Arya tweets 2006, 2010 images as Baloch attack on Pak troops; deletes later
“News of 7 Pakistani Army soldiers being killed by Baloch freedom fighters of Jaish-al-Adl is trickling in. My Baloch friends say that they will keep attacking Pak Army till they…
Major Gaurav Arya tweets misleading video, defends the misinformation
Major Gaurav Arya, an army veteran and host of Republic TV’s show, ‘Patriot’, tweeted a video on March 14. In the video, a group of blindfolded soldiers, whose hands are…
Fact check: Saudi Arabia has not banned loudspeakers on Ramzan
The Saudi Arabian minister of Islamic affairs Sheikh Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh recently issued a circular underlining the steps to be taken to prepare mosques for the month of Ramadan…
‘Union of states’: A sea of difference between what Rahul said & what Amritpal Singh said
On February 23, followers of Punjab’s pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh clashed with the police outside Ajnala police station near Amritsar, Punjab, and demanded the release of one of the members…
Muslim man lynched for blasphemy in Pak, RW Twitter users claim he was a Christian
[The following story contains descriptions of violence and graphic videos.] On Saturday, February 11, a mob attacked a police station in Nankana Sahib, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The crowd entered…
Media reports that Pakistan denied airspace to IAF aid plane to Turkey are false
On February 6, an earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and western Syria. Its epicenter was in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep. The BBC reported at 13.46 IST on…
Old video of people fighting over sack of wheat shared as current food crisis in Pakistan
A 41-second long video clip where four individuals can be seen getting into a physical tussle over a sack of wheat is going viral on social media as visuals from…