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A photo collage has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts in May 2021 alongside a claim it shows a Pakistani journalist accepting a bribe from the chairman of a Pakistani opposition party. But the image has been altered to include an envelope, purportedly filled with cash.
The photo collage was posted here on Facebook on May 26, 2021.
Hamid Mir, a Pakistani journalist working at Pakistani media outlet Geo News, is pictured on the right-hand side of both images.
The photos purport to show Mir receiving an envelope from Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), one of Pakistan’s opposition political parties.
Block printing is fading in Pakistan. In India, the industry is booming
“I have been doing block printing work for the past 20 years with my husband,” 40-year-old Musarrat Fayyaz tells
The News on Sunday (TNS). “Our family has been associated with the centuries-old art for nearly 100 years. Our forefathers started the work in the pre-partition period in Mitro, a small village near Mailsi, in the Vehari district of southern Punjab.”
She says she learned block-printing from her in-laws when she got married to Fayyaz. She and her husband run a block printing business in Kahror Pakka tehsil. They also train girls in this area. Musarrat Fayyaz says mostly men are associated with this industry in this region; female workers are rare.