The video is from Lahore, Pakistan. It shows an incident of domestic violence and is unrelated to the marriage with a minor girl.
A video of a man assaulting a child and then threatening with a rifle is going viral on social media with a claim that it shows a 13-year-old Christian girl who was forced to marry a 40-year-old Muslim man in Pakistan. The video shows a man pushing a young girl away, as she cries for her mother and later the same man is seen in another room getting out a rifle as other men rush to stop him and take the rifle away from him.
The caption of the post states, “A 13-year-old orphan Christian girl was forced to marry a 40-year-old Muslim man, Mohammad Ishtiyaq. When she refused and tried to escape, he threatened her with a weapon. This reflects the grim reality faced by minorities in Pakistan”.
Fact Check
We started our investigation by running a Google reverse image search, whose result led us to a post by a Pakistani journalist named Imtiaz Chandio on X on 11 September, 2023. In this tweet, while sharing the viral video, he has written, “Someone has sent this video, in which a husband tried to kill his wife with Kalashnikov during a domestic dispute in South Cantonment; relatives saved the wife from being killed by the husband.
We found that the video is from Lahore, Pakistan and the man resorted to extreme violence after a domestic dispute with this wife. Further in the investigation we found a tweet from Lahore Police. According to this post shared on 11September, 2023, a case number 3426/23 has been registered against this incident at Police Station South Cantonment and further investigation is underway.
Upon further investigation, we found a report on Pakistani news website Express. In which there are screenshots of the viral video and information has been given that in Lahore, a man named Khurram Shabbir picked up a gun to kill his wife after a fight. Other family members stopped him and saved the wife from the husband. The woman lodged a complaint against her husband, after which the police arrested him from South Cantonment area of Lahore.
This news has been published by other media outlets. You can see the news here , here and here. In all these, viral videos have been posted and it has been described as domestic violence. The accused is Khurram Shabbir, a resident of Lahore, who tried to kill his wife. After which the police arrested him from South Cantonment area of Lahore.
So, based on all these evidences, we can understand that the video is not recent and does not show a minor being forced into marriage in Pakistan.
Conclusion
Fact Crescendo found that the claim made along with the viral video to be Misleading. The video is from Lahore, Pakistan. It shows an incident of domestic violence and is unrelated to the marriage with a minor girl.
Title:A video of domestic violence in Lahore is going viral as minor Christian girl forced to marry Muslim man in Pakistan
Fact Check By: Usha ManojResult: Misleading
