A picture of Pakistan’s imprisoned previous leader Imran Khan with a political ally before he was ousted as prime minister was shared in incorrect posts that declared it revealed him with the late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. The image — saw numerous countless times — distributed after Raisi was eliminated in a helicopter crash in northern Iran.
The misrepresented image — which reveals Khan comprehending the hand of a bearded male in a cream bathrobe — was included in a TikTok video saw more than 498,000 times given that May 20, 2024.
It was overlaid with text composed in Arabic and Urdu that equated as: “To Allah, we belong, and to him, we will return. Iranian President. May Allah raise his location in paradise.”
The image was shared together with 2 images of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi who was verified dead on May 20 after his airplane came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran.
The very same TikTok video was shared here. The image of Khan and the bearded male was likewise shared on YouTube here and here; and Facebook here and here together with the very same incorrect claim.
Talk about posts suggested numerous users were misinformed.
“Rest in peace,” one composed.
“Was (a) fantastic leader,” stated another.
Khan was visualized conference Raisi when he was Pakistan’s prime minister in September 2021 on the sidelines of the 21st Shanghai Cooperation Company in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (archived link).
Nevertheless, the image shared in social networks posts reveals Khan with a Pakistani political leader, not Raisi.
Pakistan senator
A Google reverse image search discovered it was formerly released on Khan’s main Facebook account on July 26, 2023 (archived link).
“A check out by a delegation of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen led by to Zaman Park Allama Raja Nasir Abbas and conference with Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan,” checked out part of the caption to the post, which likewise consisted of another image of the conference.
Senator Jafari is a Khan ally and heads the Shiite political celebration Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan (archived link).
Zaman Park describes Khan’s home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
Below is a screenshot contrast of the misrepresented image (left) and the matching image released on Khan’s Facebook account (right):
Similar images were published on Jafari’s Facebook account on July 7, 2023 (archived link).
A Pakistan high court reversed a treason conviction versus Khan on June 3, 2024, months after his celebration was sidelined in a basic election.
The conviction was among 3 slapped on Khan in the runup to February surveys — cases he declares were managed to avoid his go back to power.
Khan stays imprisoned on a seven-year sentence for breaking Islamic law by weding his better half Bushra Bibi prematurely after her divorce.
He has actually likewise been condemned of graft over presents he got while he was leading in between 2018 and 2022.
AFP has actually fact-checked more false information about Khan here.