for questions about claims based in Pakistan, or limited in Pakistan.
Questions tagged [pakistan]
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Did Pakistan lose each and every war it fought with India from 1947 to 1999?
The speaker in this video says that:
The Pakistani army has lost every war it's fought with India from the original war in 1947 until the latest war in 1999 ...
This is a recurring narrative that is found/heard/seen in Indian media and among the…
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Was one-third of Pakistan flooded in August 2022?
An Aug. 30, 2022 NBC article says:
A third of Pakistan is underwater as deadly floods leave desperate residents facing 'doomsday'
The article later attributes the one third claim to a tweet from Pakistan's Climate Minister Sherry…
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Do Punjab Board of Pakistan textbooks contain hate speech against non muslims?
For example as claimed here,
A study by the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) on all ages of state textbooks in Punjab revealed that the instances of hate-speech and indoctrination in such allegedly 'moderate' texts has risen by…
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Can the Taliban detect drone targets with a camcorder?
The New York Times today published an article in which senior Taliban commander Wali ur-Rehman claims the Taliban now uses camcorders to scan cars and other potential drone targets.
Mr. Rehman explained that the camera could somehow detect…
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Did Pakistan supply an F-16 fighter jet to China for reverse engineering?
According to Bharat Karnad, in an opinion published in the Hindustan Times in 2017:
PAF long ago passed on an F-16 to China for its aircraft designers to study and to reverse engineer many of its technologies. So this plane is an open book for…
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Did Pakistan military and allies rape 200-400 thousand women during the 1971 war?
A 2016 article from the Indian Express, When raped women and war babies paid the price of a new nation, refers to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and states:
An official estimate of 200,000 to 400,000 women were raped by the Pakistani military and…
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Did India shoot down any Pakistani F-16 on 27th February 2019?
According to DG ISPR of the Military of Pakistan, Gen. Asif Gafoor, on 27th February 2019, Pakistan Air Force's jets engaged IAF's jets and "shot down two IAF jets".
On the same day, India claimed that they shot down a Pakistani F-16. In the video…
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Was the debris of a missile presented by India authentic?
In February 2019, Indian officials presented the alleged wreckage of an AIM-120C5 AMRAAM missile as evidence that Pakistan used an F-16 in the shooting down of IAF jets (as only an F-16 could fire such a missile from the Pakistani side), and hence…
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Was the 1971 Pakistani surrender in Bangladesh the first public surrender in history?
In 1971 India invaded east Pakistan, which ended in the "public surrender" of the Pakistani military on the 16th of December, and modern day Bangladesh is the result. Many of the articles and videos that I've seen (particularly those written by the…
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Did Pakistan shoot down an Indian Su-30 in 2019?
As of 2021 Radio Pakistan still claimed that in the 2019 shootout with India they shot down two IAF aircraft, a MiG-21 and a SU-30
PAF had shot down two Indian fighter jets namely MiG-21 and Su-30 where the former pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan…
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Was the Chinese ship Da Cui Yun carrying materials for building WMD?
Chinese ship carrying suspected cargo to Pakistan allowed to leave, equipment held back
DRDO confirms Chinese ship India stopped was carrying nuclear-capable equipment to Pakistan
The above article says that: India seized a Chinese ship that was…
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Was Pakistani President, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, assassinated?
There is a general conception in Pakistan that late General Zia was eliminated by Americans in a mysterious plane crash in August 17, 1988:
The plane went down and then up and eventually hit the ground at about 60-70 deg and exploding.
No black…
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Did Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1945 say, “Muslims who are opposing Pakistan will spend the rest of their lives proving loyalty to India”?
A widely-retweeted Dec 12 2019 tweet by @TonyAshai reads
Mohomad Ali Jinnah said in 1945, “Muslims who are opposing #Pakistan will spend rest of their lives proving loyalty to India” and #Modi and #Amitshah validated it 2019 by their actions in…
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Did India plan to get Pakistan's nuclear facility destroyed by Israel in the mid-'80s?
A 2010 article by Shahid R. Siddiqi in Dawn (a major Pakistani English newspaper) states:
After successfully destroying the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981,
Israelis planned a similar attack on Pakistan’s nuclear facilities at
Kahuta in collusion…
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Did Malala Yousafzai ever say "socialism is the only answer"?
I just saw this picture making the latest rounds today on Reddit's /r/socialism. The picture has the quote attributed to Malala Yousafzai,
Caption reads,
I am convinced
socialism is the
only answer and
I urge all
comrades to
take this
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