Several social media users have shared an image of school children sitting on mud. It’s claimed that the image is from India.
Twitter user @shaista04444 posted the viral image. It has over 300 retweets. (archived link)
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The image is circulated on social media along with Hindi text, “Look at the condition of schools in the country with the world’s tallest statue.”
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Fact-check
Alt News performed a reverse image search on Google and found that the image was tweeted by Imran Lashari, who works at Ministry of Foreign Affair, Islamabad in Pakistan as per his Twitter bio. He had tweeted the image in 2017 tagging Islamabad-based reporter Rauf Klasra. Lashari wrote, “Government girls primary school wara sehraan tehsil karor district Layyah southpunjab whats your remarks about punjab Government. @KlasraRauf”
Government girls primary school wara sehraan tehsil karor district Layyah southpunjab whats your remarks about punjab Government.@KlasraRauf pic.twitter.com/27M8U6IwJp
— Imran Lashari (@imrancfa) January 27, 2017
Taking this as a clue, a further search led us to an article from 2015 published in Pakistan-based Siasat. As per the website, this school is in Pakistan’s Punjab.
We also found that a Pakistani Twitter user had posted the viral image in 2015. In his tweet, he had tagged Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, federal minister for railways and chief of Awami Muslim League.
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The viral image was earlier fact-checked by Fact Crescendo in February.
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