Bakhtawar Zardari and Amir Liaquat Get Caught Posting Fake Pictures of Floods

Politics is a dirty game.

By Lens Staff | 3:15 pm | Aug 24, 2020
Politicians

Politicians are always in a tussle. You will often see them mocking each other, especially if they belong to opposing political parties. And it happens everywhere, so it’s pretty normal.

But Pakistani politicians take it one step further when it comes to ‘calling out’ other people for their alleged crimes and wrongdoings. We saw how recently, politicians and even their kids were busy blaming each other as Karachi and Lahore got rains.

But it seems that more rain brought more ignorance with it. As we all witnessed another spell of monsoon rains in Pakistan, major cities like Lahore and Karachi fell victim to urban flooding.

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The pictures and videos of the cities after heavy rain in the past week were in the news all over the country. Hashtags and videos related to the post-rain destruction were circulating on Twitter as well.

However, what we did not see coming was politicians sharing fake pictures of the flooding and passing them on as the current situation in ABC area.

‘Fake news’ seems so real sometimes (thanks to our biases) that we don’t take care in vetting it. However, everything has a time and that’s exactly what these politicians were missing.

Politics and lying

First, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari shared a video of what she believes was flooding in Lahore. The problem is, the video she shared was captured in India and not in Lahore.

India is also witnessing strong monsoon rains in the past few days and the people are having problems in their day to day life because of it. Therefore, the people in the video can be seen using a boat to travel.

But that’s not the only problem with Ms. Bakhtawar’s tweet. She shared a laughing emoji with the video as if it was funny.

https://twitter.com/bakhtawarbz/status/1296479389333573633?s=21

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Sharing fake pictures to some extent, we are all guilty of it. There are tons of them on the internet and she might have come across it through another source. But laughing at people’s problems, especially at something which she never had to experience because of a privileged upbringing, that is really not okay.

The joke was not funny and Twitteratis didn’t laugh. They corrected her ‘misinformation’ and schooled her that poking fun at someone’s misfortune can never be tolerated.

https://twitter.com/user_ishaq/status/1296541654992785416

Enter Aamir Liaquat

As if we didn’t see enough of it, PTI MNA Aamir Liaquat Husain also had some ‘pressing concerns’ about the situation in Manghopir.

Last night, he shared a tweet in which he claimed that the crocodiles in Manghopir have escaped with the flow of water and the people should be careful.

In a matter of minutes, Twitteratis noticed something strange about this tweet. It was not only fake, but it was old and a completely photoshopped image as well.

Twitter has had enough of these politicians selling fake news and they exposed Aamir Liaquat in the most savage way.

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