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Fake News Alert 🚨 🚨 Social media account brief. (@brief_pk) is spreading a fabricated and sensationalized narrative in a circulating tweet, falsely claiming that liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) shipments from Iran have triggered a diplomatic blame game, bureaucratic gridlock, and stalled bilateral talks between Islamabad and Tehran, leaving hundreds of cargo tankers abandoned at the border and forcing Pakistani households into arbitrary cylinder rationing. This claim is ABSOLUTELY FAKE based on the following facts: Contrary to the false narrative of an acute supply paralysis and cylinder rationing, large-scale seaborne LPG consignments have just docked in Karachi to ensure uninterrupted domestic and commercial supply. According to an official statement issued by the Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on Sunday, October 25, 2026, the LPG vessel Yellowstone carrying 4,000 metric tons of LPG from Bahrain berthed at Port Qasim and began immediate offloading, following two earlier LPG vessels—Alisa One (3,083 metric tons) and PGC Yanias (4,520 metric tons)—that docked at Port Qasim with 7,603 metric tons of imported LPG for Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), injecting over 11,600 metric tons of seaborne LPG into the national supply chain within 48 hours. The claim of a diplomatic blame game and stalled bilateral talks between Islamabad and Tehran is equally false. On Sunday, October 25, 2026, Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Reza Amiri-Moghaddam officially reaffirmed that Iran's borders with Pakistan remain open under high-level bilateral agreements and stated that both countries are actively cooperating to facilitate the movement of goods and strengthen economic ties, while Gwadar Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Mir Naveed Jan Kalmati confirmed that commercial cargo movement at the Gabd-Rimdan crossing has already resumed. Furthermore, enforcing electronic import documentation (E-Form) verification and anti-smuggling checks at border terminals is not bureaucratic red tape, but a standard regulatory measure to curb undocumented fuel smuggling, tax evasion, and illicit black-market hoarding. Concealing the arrival of over 11,600 metric tons of seaborne LPG at Karachi's Port Qasim and the active resumption of documented cross-border trade to invent a diplomatic rift between Islamabad and Tehran is a deliberate attempt by @brief_pk to create artificial market panic and echo the talking points of black-market LPG hoarders.