Posts criticising a Ramadan food handout scheme in Pakistan’s Punjab province in March 2024 repeatedly shared a video with a false claim it showed a police officer hitting women who were lining up for wheat flour. The clip, however, previously circulated online since June 2019 in posts about an officer violently attempting to remove women from […]
Posts sharing a video of turban-clad men arguing over a tractor sale in India’s Punjab state have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times alongside a false claim that the incident was from the ongoing farmers’ protests. The clip — which predates the protests by several weeks — was filmed by a man who told […]
Canada has long been a draw for people from India’s Punjab province seeking new opportunities elsewhere. But has the Canadian dream soured? It’s hard to miss the ardour of Punjab’s migrant ambitions when driving through its fertile rural plains. Billboards promising easy immigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK jut out through ample […]