Old photos of a rickshaw driver in Pakistan are going viral once more on social media, which was exposed in a public place. The images are accompanied by false claims that the rickshaw driver stripped off his clothes in protest following a hefty ‘electricity bill’ in July 2024.
It should be noted that the government has increased the electricity prices extraordinarily to get the bailout package from the IMF and in this background the old photos of the rickshaw driver are also going viral with false claims.
In fact, these photos are from 2017 when a rickshaw driver took the extreme step of dispersing a protest of people on the main road by walking naked on the road. Traffic was paralyzed due to this protest.
The photo was shared more than 800 times. A photo shared on X on July 4, 2024 was captioned as “Poor rickshaw driver stripped off his clothes in public in protest when he got a huge electricity bill”.
The caption blamed the rise in electricity bills on the military’s backing of “regime change” – a reference to former prime minister Imran Khan’s accusation that he had in April 2022 accused his opponents and the U.S. was forced to remove him from office through the conspiracy of
A reverse image search on Google turned up an article using the same three images, which the news website Published by Daily Pakistan on 25 December 2017 what
Published in December 2017, the photo was accompanied by the caption, “Naked man in Faisalabad teaches Pakistanis how to stop protests with strange trick”, the man “removed all his clothes at a busy square in Faisalabad, Punjab”. Dozens of protesters were chased away.”
Below is a screenshot comparison of the images used in the fake post (left) and the images used by Daily Pakistan (right).
The report did not say what the protest was regarding. Pakistani news blog ‘Padh Lo’ also published one on 26 December 2017 The same pictures in the report used
Till July 11, there were no reports of naked protests once morest the rising cost of electricity.
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2024-07-17 08:44:06
