Dubious Rumor Spreading On Pakistani Twitter Xi Jinping Will Soon Visit

Unsubstantiated rumors started to spread on Pakistani Twitter over the weekend that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the country and, more specifically, inaugurate a new Chinese-built airport in the port city of Gwadar.

There’s good reason to be suspicious of this claim given that all of the Tweets and subsequent news reports source back to a single comment made by just one person​, the former caretaker Chief Minister Balochistan Alauddin Marri.

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