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      <title>PTI protests featured fake, unrelated imagery: report</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When protests broke out across Pakistan after Imran Khan’s arrest on May 9, social media was filled with images o fprotestors clashing with the police as electronic media mostly blacked out the events.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, not all of the images you might have seen were authentic, a &lt;a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20230517-pakistan-political-turmoil-these-pti-protest-images-aren-t-real"&gt;report by DW&lt;/a&gt; has revealed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first was an image of a lone woman confronting dozens of policemen which was widely shared.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    &lt;figure class='media  sm:w-3/5  w-full  media--center    media--uneven  media--stretch'&gt;
        &lt;div class='media__item  '&gt;&lt;picture&gt;&lt;img src='https://i.aaj.tv/large/2023/05/20002008f39bf16.jpg'  alt='  ' /&gt;&lt;/picture&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;The image became viral just as a video of a PTI worker, Tayyaba Raja, confronting policement went viral.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Turns out the two are connected. The image was generated by a Twitter user who tweets &lt;a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://twitter.com/kursed"&gt;@kursed&lt;/a&gt; and is based on the video.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Another video showed protestors clashing and breaking through a police line at was claimed by the user to be Kashmir Highway.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/republicdotpk/status/1656238170743226369"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;“Exclusive Footage from Kashmir Highway, Islamabad,” the tweet said, saying the crowd was from KP.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, let alone Kashmir Highway, the video is not even from Pakistan. It is actually a group of Honduran migrants and the video is from January 2021. You can read more about it in this &lt;a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9155479/Honduran-migrant-caravan-1-000-strong-demands-Biden-match-rhetoric-refugees.html"&gt;Daily Mail article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally, a third post showed a crowd carrying a funeral coffin allegedly belonging to a person killed by law enforcement in the protests against Imran’s arrest.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"&gt;
        &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Kpandu94/status/1656979218687983618"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;“Khan’s release is the sacrifices of these martyrs, they can never be forgotten,” the tweet read. (The tweet mentioned by DW was by a handle named &lt;a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://twitter.com/FawadKhanDir"&gt;@FawadKhanDir&lt;/a&gt; and seems to have been deleted.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once again, the video has nothing to do with the PTI protests and but is from Pakistan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The video is from Parachinar, where six people including four teachers were killed by gunfire. You can read more about it &lt;a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/shooting-kills-seven-teachers-northwest-pakistan-school-geo-tv-2023-05-04/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>When protests broke out across Pakistan after Imran Khan’s arrest on May 9, social media was filled with images o fprotestors clashing with the police as electronic media mostly blacked out the events.</strong></p>
<p>However, not all of the images you might have seen were authentic, a <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20230517-pakistan-political-turmoil-these-pti-protest-images-aren-t-real">report by DW</a> has revealed.</p>
<p>The first was an image of a lone woman confronting dozens of policemen which was widely shared.</p>
<p>    <figure class='media  sm:w-3/5  w-full  media--center    media--uneven  media--stretch'>
        <div class='media__item  '><picture><img src='https://i.aaj.tv/large/2023/05/20002008f39bf16.jpg'  alt='  ' /></picture></div>
        
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<p>The image became viral just as a video of a PTI worker, Tayyaba Raja, confronting policement went viral.</p>
<p>Turns out the two are connected. The image was generated by a Twitter user who tweets <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://twitter.com/kursed">@kursed</a> and is based on the video.</p>
<p>    <figure class='media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  media--uneven'>
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<p>Another video showed protestors clashing and breaking through a police line at was claimed by the user to be Kashmir Highway.</p>
<p>    <figure class='media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  media--uneven'>
        <div class='media__item  media__item--twitter  '><span>
    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
        <a href="https://twitter.com/republicdotpk/status/1656238170743226369"></a>
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<p>“Exclusive Footage from Kashmir Highway, Islamabad,” the tweet said, saying the crowd was from KP.</p>
<p>However, let alone Kashmir Highway, the video is not even from Pakistan. It is actually a group of Honduran migrants and the video is from January 2021. You can read more about it in this <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9155479/Honduran-migrant-caravan-1-000-strong-demands-Biden-match-rhetoric-refugees.html">Daily Mail article</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, a third post showed a crowd carrying a funeral coffin allegedly belonging to a person killed by law enforcement in the protests against Imran’s arrest.</p>
<p>    <figure class='media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  media--uneven'>
        <div class='media__item  media__item--twitter  '><span>
    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
        <a href="https://twitter.com/Kpandu94/status/1656979218687983618"></a>
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<p>“Khan’s release is the sacrifices of these martyrs, they can never be forgotten,” the tweet read. (The tweet mentioned by DW was by a handle named <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://twitter.com/FawadKhanDir">@FawadKhanDir</a> and seems to have been deleted.)</p>
<p>Once again, the video has nothing to do with the PTI protests and but is from Pakistan.</p>
<p>The video is from Parachinar, where six people including four teachers were killed by gunfire. You can read more about it <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/shooting-kills-seven-teachers-northwest-pakistan-school-geo-tv-2023-05-04/">here</a>.</p>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 00:34:53 +0500</pubDate>
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