Claim: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif has reached Saudi Arabia from London to perform Umrah.
A fake screenshot was shared by multiple Twitter accounts that passengers have refused to travel with Nawaz in the same airplane.
The screenshot was taken from 7News and it has the name of the reporter Rana Waheed.
Fact: However, the news turned out to be old and the reporter himself clarified that this has nothing to do with Nawaz’s recent visit to the Kingdom.
In a tweet, he said, “This news and screenshot are old. I left 7news three years ago, and now I am working in PNN as a special correspondent.”
یہ خبر پرانی ہے سکرین شارٹ بھی میں گزشتہ تین سال سے سیون نیوز چھوڑ چکا ہوں میں بطور نمائندہ خصوصی پی این این میں کام کر رہا ہوں لحاظ نواز شریف کے حالیہ دورہ سعودی عرب سے اس خبر سے کوئی تعلق نہیں یہ خبر فیک ہے
— Rana Waheed (@WaheedSahafi) April 12, 2023
@waheedsahafi https://t.co/7UldB8UVoP
Political Secretary to Maryam Nawaz, Zeeshan Malik, also retweeted the clarification of the reporter.
This is fake news I am now specail correspondent PNN News https://t.co/g6pKH9lziY
— Rana Waheed (@WaheedSahafi) April 11, 2023
Sharif is expected to spend the last 10 days of Ramzan as well as celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr in Saudi Arabia on the invitation of the royal family.