Old video recirculated to falsely claim 'ex-Pakistan president named journalist's killers'

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🇵🇰 Old video recirculated to falsely claim 'ex-Pakistan president named journalist's killers'

A video of former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari giving a press conference has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts with the false claim that he mentioned the names of"the killers" of a Pakistani journalist who was shot dead by police in Kenya in October 2022. The original video was in fact broadcast live in May 2022, which predates the journalist's killing by several months.

Sharif, a critic of Pakistan's powerful military establishment and supporter of former prime minister Imran Khan, was shot dead by police in Kenya in his car at a roadblock outside Nairobi, AFP

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