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Pakistan floods: Pakistan has been facing unprecedented floods for the past three weeks. The floods are caused by incessant rainfall in multiple cities. However, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been facing one of the worst crises as hundreds of lives were lost in floods. Although Pakistan has blamed India for releasing water from its dams, the US President did not say a single word on the tragedy.

An AI-generated deepfake video circulating online shows President Donald Trump claiming that the floods in Pakistan are a result of India opening its dams in Kashmir.

“Pakistan, let me tell you the truth and nobody tells the truth like I do. The horrible floods in Pakistan, the destruction, the tragedy, it's not just climate, it's not just rain, it's India. Believe me, India opened their dams in Kashmir, very unfair and very dangerous,” Trump can be heard in an AI-generated video.

“They opened the gates and millions of tons of water came rushing into Pakistan through Ravi, through Chenab, through Satlaj. Everybody knows it, but nobody says it, I'm saying it. Pakistan is suffering,” added the fake audio.

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PIB Fact Check, an Indian government initiative, to verify the claims, found the video as digitally altered. It debunked the video and dubbed it “fake news”. Also, it shared the original video of May 30, where Trump can be sitting in the same posture.

Pakistan floods

At least 22 people died in the last 24 hours as several residential areas of Lahore remained submerged due to floodwaters entering the city, the first time in almost 40 years, in Pakistan's Punjab province, authorities said on Friday.

Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab has been reeling under severe floods for almost a week and at least 1,700 villages across the province, including the Sikh sacred site of Kartarpur, are inundated. “Flood water has entered Lahore after 38 years. After the 1988 floods, the water flow measuring 2,20,000 in the Ravi at 7 am today is so far the highest one,” Lahore Deputy Commissioner Syed Musa Raza told journalists.

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The government said the unprecedented monsoon rain and the release of excess water from the Indian side swelled the three eastern rivers -- the Sutlej, Ravi and Chenab. Northwest India and Pakistan's Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces have been witnessing torrential rains for over 10 days resulting in almost all rivers and tributaries flowing over danger levels.
“If there is no discharge of water from India downstream, we can expect a reduction in the flows in the next 2-3 days,” he said.

(With inputs from agency)