Fact check: Viral Daily Telegraph article praising PAF after India escalation is fake

Dawn fact-checks Pak dy PM Ishaq Dar; UK daily didn’t call PAF ‘King of the Skies’

According to iVerify Pakistan, a fact-checking initiative, the image is not an authentic front page from the British newspaper and was generated using AI tools.

Fact check: Viral Daily Telegraph article praising PAF after India escalation is fake

iVerify Pakistan observed discrepancies in the viral photo, analysed it through tools and checked British publication *The Daily Telegraph* to see if it had shared any such news story.

Pak FM cites fake article to claim win over India

Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has praised the country’s air force by quoting a fake page of the United Kingdom-based The Daily Telegraph. In his address to Pakistan’s Senate on Thursday, Dar said, “Telegraph writes Pakistan Air Force is the undisputed king of the skies.” The newspaper page quoted by Dar was a fake page viral on social media. Pakistan newspaper The Dawn’s iVerify Pakistan team investigated the co…