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      No, The French Flag Was Not Waved At Pakistan's Aurat March

      The flag seen in the posts represents a Pakistani women's rights organization and shows purple, white and red colours.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  15 March 2021 1:30 PM IST
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      No, The French Flag Was Not Waved At Pakistans Aurat March

      Various images and videos of activists waving a flag at a women's day march in Pakistan in 2021 have been posted on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim that the flag is the French tricolour national flag. The claim is false; the flag seen in the posts represents a Pakistani women's rights organization and shows purple, white and red colours — not the French blue, white and red tricolour.

      The claim was published on Twitter here on March 9, 2021, by Hans Masroor Badvi, the central deputy secretary of information for the Pakistani province of Sindh.

      Also Read: Chants Against Allah And The Prophet Were Not Raised During Aurat March

      The Urdu-language tweet translates to English as: "Sadness! In the Women's March, the French flag was hoisted and it was said that the women marchers are supporting the blasphemous France which is being boycotted all over Pakistan! Meaning they're supporters of blasphemy?"


      Screenshot of the misleading post, taken on March 11, 2021

      Pakistani women celebrated International Women's Day on March 8, 2021, with a series of Women's March, also called Aurat March — aurat means women in Urdu — in cities across the country, as reported by local media Dawn newspaper and the News International.

      The post circulated several months after a wave of anti-French protests swept across the Muslim world following French President Emmanuel Macron's refusal to renounce laws that permit the showing of blasphemous caricatures, AFP reported here. The issue began after a French teacher was murdered for showing his class a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in October 2020.

      Other posts making the claim that the French flag was raised at an Aurat March in Pakistan have been shared hundreds of times after appearing on Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here and here; and on Twitter here, here, here, here and here.

      Pakistani media outlets also published the claim; for instance in a Facebook post by 72News here and in a video news report by Neo News posted on YouTube here.

      The Neo News anchor's opening comments in Urdu translate to English as: "Yesterday was the Women's March in Pakistan and whatever happened in this women's march you've already seen on TV screens. But a special thing happened in this march, a country's flag was waived. Which country was this? Let's watch the video and then decide why, what and who did this. Look at this. This is France's flag. And what is the use of France's flag in this Women's March?"

      Also Read: No, This Banner From Aurat March Did Not Refer To Prophet Mohammed


      Screenshot of the Neo News video report, taken on March 11, 2021

      The video from Neo News was also shared on Facebook here and here.

      The claim, however, is false.

      The tricolour flag seen raised at an Aurat March represents the Women Democratic Front of Pakistan (WDF), a feminist organization based in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.

      In a tweet from WDF's official account, the group explained the flag "represents grassroots feminism in Pakistan and has nothing to do with the French flag. We, at WDF, stand against all forms of imperialism and the accusation that we would ever wave the flag of a former colonial power is ridiculous."

      The WDF flag represents grassroots feminism in Pakistan and has nothing to do with the French flag. We, at WDF, stand against all forms of imperialism and the accusation that we would ever wave the flag of a former colonial power is ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/oZIjDB8XGu

      — Women Democratic Front #AuratAzadiMarch2021 (@wdf_pk) March 10, 2021

      In a text graphic, the WDF's tweet added that the organisation's flag is red, white and purple — not the French blue, white and red colours.

      The WDF also tweeted a video showing the organisation's flag being raised at the Women's March in Islamabad on March 8, 2021, which corresponds to the video and photos shared in the misleading posts.

      Below is a screenshot comparison of the flag from the WDF's video on Twitter (L) and the video shared in the misleading post (R):

      A comparison of the flag seen in the video by WDF (L) and a post with the misleading claim (R)

      AFP Fact Check previously debunked a false claim about a placard carried by a participant at a Women's March in Pakistan in March 2020.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      PakistanAurat March
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      Claim :   French tricolour national flag was waved during the Aurat March in Pakistan.
      Claimed By :  Hans Masroor Badvi, Posts on Facebook and Twitter
      Fact Check :  False
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