A video is getting viral on social media sites. It can be seen and heard that Pakistani engineer and politician Ahsan Iqbal criticized his own party’s ruling coalition for a nationwide electricity breakdown in January 2023. Social media users are praising him for his wise words.
By sharing this a verified user caption: “ A self-proclaimed native, I fully agree with this revelation of Aristotle. Sometimes this person even mistakenly speaks wise words once or twice a year.
#ElectricityShutDown” ( English Translation )
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Meanwhile, many other social media users are sharing a similar claim.
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Fact Check:
To know the reality of the viral video the team of DFRAC separated the keyframes of the video and afterward did a reverse image search of those keyframes, the team found a similar video on the official Pakistani YouTube channel Geo News which was uploaded on 10 January 2021. The heading states: “ Mulki Maeeshat Doob Rahi Hai, Ahsan Iqbal.”
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Ahsan Iqbal further added- “ Worst power shutdown. It proved that this government is incompetent. (Imran Khan) thought The country’s economy is sinking, and new crises are emerging. So let’s try to reboot Pakistan like a mobile phone, and maybe it’ll work!’ He shut down the whole power system and tried to start it again.”Imran sir this is a country, not a mobile phone which gets rebooted and will start.
Pakistan had to go through a misery of national power breakdown which officials blamed on an Engineering fault.
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Meanwhile, many social media users are sharing tweets regarding the Massive blackout in Pakistan in 2021.
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At the same time, the team also found 2-year-old videos of the Pakistani blackout.
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Source: YouTube
Conclusion:
It is clear from the fact check and media reports that the viral video of Ahsan Iqbal criticizing his own government for the electricity breakdown in Pakistan is 2 years old it has nothing to do with the recent electricity breakdown in Pakistan. Therefore the claim of social media users is misleading
