Social media has been inundated with posts claiming that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan in jail through the latter’s three-day official go to to Pakistan in April.
The claims are incorrect.
Declare
A consumer on X (previously Twitter) posted, “Breaking information: Iranian president meets Imran Khan in Adiala Jail and introduced to play a task to get him out of jail,” on April 22.
The consumer additional claimed that politicians Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Parvez Elahi had been additionally current through the assembly.
“The Iranian president promised to play a task in releasing Imran Khan from jail,” the consumer added.
The submit was shared alongside a video allegedly displaying Prime Time News24 being aired on Pakistani information channels.
The submit has been seen over 100,000 instances and favored almost 900 instances thus far.
Comparable claims additionally took off on TikTok right here, right here and right here.
Truth
Iran’s embassy in Pakistan has refuted the net claims of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi assembly with Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, who has been incarcerated in a jail in Rawalpindi, Punjab, since August.
“Embassy of Iran disclaims such misinformation,” a senior official on the embassy informed Geo Truth Test over the telephone, who requested to not be named. “All of the conferences and calls [in Pakistan] had been scheduled with the official leaders and authorities of the county.”
Individually, Geo Truth Test might discover no information experiences or another proof to help the claims that the Iranian president met Khan through the latter’s go to from April 22-24.
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