Wearing short dresses in public is considered inappropriate for women in socially conservative Pakistan. However, a video viewed tens of thousands of times alongside claims it shows women in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation in "shameless" clothing was actually filmed elsewhere. It corresponds with imagery on Google Maps of a stadium in the United Arab Emirates.

"What is going on in the state of Pakistan? Were shameless acts by TikTokers not enough? Now women have come into the stadium openly wearing revealing dresses," read the Urdu-language caption to the video showing women wearing short dresses in a stadium.

The X post, published on December 16, 2024, has since racked up more than 190,000 views.

The video was also shared with similar false claims elsewhere on X and on Facebook.

Comments to the posts indicate many people believed the video was filmed in Pakistan, where many women wear shawls covering their hair and smaller numbers of women wear the all-covering burqa.

"It is just the beginning, let's see what happens next," wrote an X user.

"Now Pakistan is near its destruction," said another on Facebook.

Sharjah stadium

A reverse image search of the video's keyframes on Google showed several posts linked to a commercial event at a cricket stadium in Sharjah, one of the UAE's seven emirates and a neighbour to cosmopolitan Dubai (archived link).

A TikTok video published on December 15, 2024 shows some of the women at Sharjah stadium in the clip shared by false...

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