News is making rounds on social media site X stating that Saudi Arabia has decided to cut its imports from India by 45%. The news has been shared by several users on X including Pak-based handles.

Taking to X(Twitter), a Pak-based handle with the username @NavCom24 shared an image of Saudi Arabia’s PM and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and wrote: “#BREAKING Saudi Arab has decided to cut its imports from India by 45%”.

The post has garnered more than 60k views on X.

Furthermore, numerous users shared the same image and made similar claims.

Fact-Check

The DFRAC team searched some keywords on Google in the context of the viral news and found that no media reports have been published in this regard.

In addition to this, we examined the official X handles of the Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, India Randhir Jaiswal, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia but did not get any tweets or updates regarding the viral news.

Conclusion

It is evident from DFRAC’s Fact-Check that the viral news claiming Saudi Arabia has decided to cut its imports from India by 45% is fake as no media reports or any updates have been found stating the above viral news.

Analysis: Fake