Naimat Khan, a journalist working with Arab News, pointed out false news being widely circulated by Indian media.
Indian news platforms have been reporting that Maulana Qaiser Farooq has been shot and killed in a target attack in Karachi, alleging that he was one of the prominent leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba and was a close associate of Hafiz Saeed.
Khan, however, fact checked and corrected the outlets by stating that Maulana Qaiser Farooq, killed by unknown assailants in Karachi, was associated with Gulshan-e-Umar, a branch of Binori Town, a top Deobandi seminary in Karachi. He pointed out that this institution has no connection with Hafiz Saeed.
Fact check: Maulana Qaiser Farooq, who was killed by unknown assailants in Karachi yesterday, was associated with Gulshan-e-Umar, a branch of Binori Town, a top Deobandi seminary in Karachi. This institution has no connection with Jamaat ud Dawa pic.twitter.com/KVUP3VOknP
— Naimat Khan (@NKMalazai) October 1, 2023
Is there any Indian news outlet that hasn't published this fake news, labeling a Deobandi cleric as a member of LeT and a close aide of Hafiz Saeed? @htTweets, @WIONews, @IndiaToday, and others have published it without bothering to conduct a simple fact-check. https://t.co/vLXHeyangQ pic.twitter.com/9G9QKkAtw0
— Naimat Khan (@NKMalazai) October 2, 2023
