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In August 2020, a video circulated on social media showing a group of men uprooting saplings in Pakistan, falsely claiming that they were acting against Islam by opposing tree planting.

BOOM fact-checked the video and found that the incident occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, where locals were protesting the government's plantation drive. The land where the saplings were planted was subject to a dispute over ownership.