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Photos claiming to show Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, casting a vote from jail in the country’s recent general election have been circulating online. But the photos actually date from 2018. 

Imran Khan was elected as Prime Minister in 2018 but was removed from office following a vote of no confidence in April 2022. He was sentenced to three years in prison in August 2023 on charges of corruption and was disqualified from politics for five years. He has since been handed further jail time. 

Several posts share a collage of two images showing Mr Khan appearing to post a vote through a ballot box. One post says: “Imran Khan has cast his vote from Adiala Jail”, a prison near Islamabad where he has reportedly been held since September 2023. 

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Following the arrest of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on 9 May a number of Facebook and Twitter posts claimed a video showed people protesting his arrest outside the London home of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

One of the Facebook posts, shared on 11 May, was captioned: “A large number of Pakistanis are protesting Imran Khan’s arrest in front of Nawaz Sharif’s house in London”.

While the video does show people demonstrating outside a building reported to be owned by Mr Sharif, it was not filmed following Mr Khan’s recent arrest.

The video instead appears to have been originally shared on 17 April 2022, and shows people protesting in London a week after Mr Khan was ousted as Prime Minister following a parliamentary vote of…