CLAIMSeveral popular Twitter handles and news outlets posted a video-clip from
Pakistan’s national assembly with a claim that Pakistani MNAs (members of national assembly) raise pro-Modi slogans during parliament proceedings.
BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje claimed that the opposition chanted 'Modi-Modi' against the
Imran Khan government inside Pakistan parliament.
In the video clip posted by Karandlaje, one can see Pakistan’s foreign minister gets continuously heckled by chants from opposition leaders as he tries to speak about issues like France Muhammad cartoon row, FATF keeping Pakistan in grey-list, etc.
Hindi news anchor Deepak Chaurasia tweeted an India TV clip saying that soon Karachi and Lahore would be under India’s occupation.
Besides this, several other reputable news portals reported that ‘Modi-Modi’ slogans were raised by Pakistani politicians. They can be seen
here,
here and
here.
TRUTHChants of ‘voting-voting’ inside Pakistan parliament were misreported as ‘Modi-Modi’ chants. No such pro-Modi sloganeering happened inside Pakistan national assembly.
The name of PM Modi did crop up several times during the proceedings when the leaders from the ruling party accused opposition members of treason and collusion with Indian PM.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGYUsing relevant keywords, we found the full video of Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s speech in Pakistan’s national assembly on October 26, 2020. It was uploaded by the official YouTube account of the popular Pakistani news channel Dunya News.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi Speech in National Assembly | 26 October 2020 | Dunya News | HB1L
Listening to the entire clip it became clear that opposition MNAs of Pakistan raised chants of ‘voting-voting’ and not ‘Modi-Modi’ to heckle Qureshi. The speaker of the assembly intervenes and requests opposition to show patience, assuring that voting will happen eventually.
At one point, Qureshi gets so annoyed by constant heckling that he says that Modi’s spirit had entered opposition. Read full report
here.
Independent journalist Aditya Raj Kaul quoted India TV’s erroneous tweet and confirmed that Pakistani politicians chanted ‘voting-voting’.
“Khwaja Asif demands voting in the house before Shah Mehmood Qureshi begins speaking. That triggers sloganeering. Speaker says, voting will happen to calm tempers,” Kaul tweeted.
We also found a detailed
report by Pakistani news website Dawn about the parliamentary proceedings, which mentions that chants in the national assembly were about voting.
“Foreign Minister Qureshi read out another resolution that the government wanted to be passed with consensus on the issue of blasphemy. With opposition members chanting "voting! voting!" for the resolution presented by Asif, a furious Qureshi accused the opposition of "doing politics" on the sensitive matter,” reported Dawn.
VERDICTTimes Fact Check has found that chants of ‘voting-voting’ inside Pakistani parliament were misreported as ‘Modi-Modi’.