As Pakistan continues to struggle with a severe economic crisis, a video showing a huge crowd of people looting bananas from a donkey cart handled by a child is widely shared on social media. Many users have linked the video with the shortage of flour during the holy month of Ramzan in Pakistan.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “यह वीडियो पाकिस्तान का है… रमजान के महीने में यह लड़का केला लाया था और सोचा था कि इसे बेचकर थोड़ा पैसा जमा कर लूंगा उससे आटा खरीद लूंगा पर लगता नहीं कि अब यह आटा खरीद पाएगा” (English translation: This video is from Pakistan… This boy had brought a cart of bananas to sell it and collect some money for buying flour. But now he won’t be able to buy flour!)
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be MISLEADING.
Performing a Reverse Image Search, we identified the verified Twitter handle of a Pakistan-based journalist carrying the same viral video, dated November 2, 2018, with a caption: “Pakistan is not a banana republic, but this poor boy selling bananas on his donkey cart looted by the brazen mob.”
Pakistan is not a banana republic but this poor boy selling bananas on his donkey cart looted by the brazen mob. pic.twitter.com/WtFyQkukuM
— Fazil Jamili (@faziljamili) November 2, 2018
We found several articles reporting the same incident in 2018. An article, dated November 2, 2018, says: “A video on social media went viral today (Friday) in which someone can see clearly that a mob of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) protesters were looting bananas from a young fruit purveyor’s cart. According to reports, the video of the child being robbed of bananas had gone viral at that time and the then Information Minister of Pakistan, Fawad Hussain, took cognizance of the incident and directed the Punjab government to compensate the boy.
In fact, in October 2018, TLP activists demonstrated in several cities of Pakistan to protest against the release of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy. Sheikhupura was also included in these cities, where TLP workers gathered for a demonstration in the ‘Batti Chowk’ area and looted the bananas of this child.
Thus, it is confirmed that the viral is an old video of people snatching bananas from a child in Pakistan.
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