Statement According to media outlets like Dawn and The News, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui excused himself from an Islamabad High Court bench hearing, citing a social media smear campaign against him as the reason. “I cannot hear this appeal due to a malicious campaign against me in the print and electronic media after the bail cancellation of Musharraf,” The Express Tribune quoted […]

Statement In a recent statement, former Federal Minister for Information Qamar Zaman Kaira said that the PPP fulfilled 80% of the clauses in the Charter of Democracy. Background The Charter was formulated and signed by Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, representing the two major political parties, in May 2006. The Charter established common ground between PPP and PML-N to end […]

The statement Awami National Party leaders claim that the major reason for the ruling party’s defeat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elections was large-scale rigging in elections, and complained about it throughout the campaign. Background The Awami National Party (ANP), the former ruling party of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and an ally of the PPP at the centre, suffered a humiliating defeat […]

Many times reporters only shake their heads at the statements that politicians make. Yet we print those statements and quote them. Truth Tracker is attempting to go beyond the he-said, she-said style of passive reporting. We’re fact-checking the statements that are in the news. Based on our reporting, we make a ruling about the degree of truth in statements. For […]