Claim: Several videos depict the final moments of a woman from Balochistan who was brutally murdered in a case of an honour killing that recently went viral on Pakistani social media.
Fact: All the videos are fake and AI-generated. They appear to be dramatised versions of the incident, and do not represent factual events.
Multiple videos circulating online purportedly show the final moments of a woman who was brutally murdered in Balochistan in the case of a so-called honour killing. One such video is captioned, “بلوچستان ظلم” (“Cruelty in Balochistan”).
The man holding the woman in the video says (translated from Urdu to English), “Take the Quran from her, take the Quran from her.” The woman then shouts, “What is my sin? I have done a halal nikkah. I haven’t done anything wrong.”
These videos circulated after a video depicting the brutal killing of a couple from Balochistan went viral online, igniting nationwide outrage.
In the original video of the incident, the woman, Bano Satakzai, did hold the Quran in her final moments, and reportedly said to the man, “You are allowed to shoot me, but nothing more than that.”
But attributing fake videos can potentially mislead the audience about the nature of the incident. This article is therefore investigating the following videos:
- Video 1: In this footage, the woman purportedly says, “What is my sin? I have done a halal nikkah. I haven’t done anything wrong.”
- Video 2: The woman allegedly says, “Whatever the tribe has decided, I accept it. But besides that, you should not do anything else.”
- Video 3: The woman in this clip states that she has contracted a “nikkah” and has not committed adultery.
- Video 4: In this footage, the woman says, “I have contracted a nikkah and have not committed adultery. You are allowed to shoot me, but do not touch me.”
What happened in Balochistan?
A video depicting the brutal killing of a couple in the desolate southwestern province of Balochistan went viral in July 2025. The footage sparked national outrage, bringing much-needed but brief attention to the issue of honour killings, which take place all around the country and are particularly prevalent in certain parts of Balochistan.
The viral clip shows the couple being led by men to their death in a remote area. The woman, identified by the local police as Bano Bibi, turns her back to the dozen men who stand and watch as her brother, Jalal Satakzai, shoots her. The gunmen then opened a barrage of fire at Ehsan Ullah Samalani, the man Bano was accused of having an affair with. The video then briefly shows the couple’s bullet-ridden bodies on the ground.
The cold-blooded murder has been termed yet another case of a so-called “honour killing” by politicians and activists, where a family kills a relative for bringing apparent dishonour to the family, often by marrying someone of their choice. These crimes disproportionately target women and children, though men are also among the victims.
The circulation of the video prompted the authorities to arrest at least 16 culprits. The police arrested the woman’s mother, Gul Jan Bibi, who claimed that the couple were killed according to “centuries-old Baloch traditions” and that the family “did not commit any sin.” The tribal elder Sardar Satakzai had ordered the killing, according to the police chief Naveed Akhtar, and was arrested along with Bano Bibi’s mother, The Guardian reported. Her brother, the prime suspect, “remains at large.”
At least 405 honour killing cases were reported across Pakistan in 2024, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. These killings are often ordered and orchestrated through the local system of governance – particularly tribal chiefs who head jirgas – which also provides impunity to the perpetrators of this crime.
“These norms are guarded and practices perpetuated by the feudal and tribal chieftains to maintain their control over both their people and resources,” said Harris Khalique, the general secretary of HRCP, according to a report by The Guardian.
Amnesty International also condemned the prevalent impunity of the perpetrators of violence against women in November 2023, stating: “The continued failure of the Government of Pakistan to curb the extra-legal power of jirgas or tribal councils to run parallel legal systems perpetuating patriarchal violence with impunity is extremely concerning.”
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fack Check analysed the videos and found that they are all likely AI-generated. Moreover, none of the videos being fact-checked bear any resemblance to real footage of the incident.
Video 1: Like any other AI-generated video, this one also features hyper-realistic human faces that appear shiny and waxy, indicating that the video is likely AI-generated.
The definition of the hands also provides clues that the video was created using AI. At timestamp 0:02, when the old man tries to hold the woman, his hands get distorted and blurry. A second clear sign is the woman’s left hand when she holds the Quran. Except for the thumb, she appears to have only three fingers that are glued together, with no joints in between. AI typically struggles with making realistic human hands, a clear sign that the video is artificially generated.
Screengrab from the AI video that shows a blurry hand.
The woman’s hand only has three fingers.
The eyes of those standing at the back, in particular, seem not to be moving and appear to be hollow, another indication that the video is fake.
Moreover, the writing on the number plate of the blue “DATSUN” is gibberish and barely legible, a clear indication of AI’s failure to generate coherent text.
Further, the user’s Facebook account is named “AI realistic”, indicating that the person might have uploaded an artificially-generated video. It is also likely that the user has previously uploaded videos containing the watermark “Veo”, which is an AI video generation platform by Google.
Finally, running the video on the AI-detection tool Hive Moderation returned the probability of 99.9%, which means that “the video is likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content”. Therefore, this video is likely a fake.
Results from Hive Moderation.
Video 2: Reverse-searching keyframes from this video did not yield any results and that raised suspicions of it being AI-generated.
At the beginning of the video, the woman’s face appears highly distorted, a sign that it was likely created with AI software.
Analysing the features of the bystanders also reveals that the footage is not real. Throughout the footage, similar to the first video, their eyes are not visible and appear to be hollow sockets, a sign that it has been artificially generated.
The eyes of the bystander appear to be hollow sockets.
Furthermore, like the first video, the Facebook user who uploaded this footage is the same, called “AI realistic”, indicating that this clip is also artificially generated. This is more likely considering that the user has previously uploaded videos that have the watermark “Veo”, which is an AI video generation platform by Google.
Although the video being fact-checked does not display the same logo, the fact that the user has uploaded other AI-generated videos suggests that this footage is likely also AI-generated.
Video 3: This footage exhibits clear signs of being generated by AI.
At 0:01, the facial features of all the subjects in the video are the first of such clear signs. The eyes appear to be hollow, dark sockets, a telltale sign that it was created with AI. Furthermore, the hands highlighted below are distorted and contorted, lacking realistic human features, which is another indication that the footage is fake.
Hollow eyes and contorted hands are a sign that the video is AI-generated.
Soch Fact Check also analysed the Facebook account of the user who uploaded this footage. This person has uploaded various videos purportedly depicting the brutal incident, and all appear to be fake, since none of them bear any resemblance to the real video that went viral. Therefore, this video is likely also fake and AI-generated.
Video 4: Soch Fact Check first reverse-searched keyframes from the video but found no conclusive results about its origin, which suggested that it was likely fake.
The analysis of the footage also revealed that it is AI-generated. A closer inspection reveals not only that it is of poor quality, but the faces of the people in the background, including the woman, are blurred. Even though the footage zooms in, the facial features remain distorted and lack proper human features, a clear indication that it is AI-generated.
Highly blurred and distorted faces.
The shadows in the video are also not consistent. For example, the shadows of men standing on the left are towards the camera. However, the shadows of men on the right are in a different direction, which means that “diffusion models suffer from a lack of understanding of logic.” Since AI has been unable to replicate real-life scenarios, this is another sign that the video is AI-generated
Moreover, analysing the audio through the Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector, an AI detection tool for audio deepfakes, also reveals that it is fake. The tool yielded a score of 3/100, which means that “the sampled voice is likely a deepfake”.
Results from Hiya DeepFake Voice Detector.
Therefore, a thorough analysis of the footage as well as the audio confirms that this video is AI-generated.
Virality
The first video garnered 343,000 views and was liked 7,000 times.
It also appeared on Facebook here and here.
On YouTube here.
The second video received 26,000 views.
The third video garnered 527,000 views and was liked 13,000 times.
The Asian shared a screengrab from the fourth video with the caption, “Screenshot of the woman before being shot dead”.
This video appeared on Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
On YouTube, it appeared here, here, here, here, and here.
Conclusion: Four videos allegedly showing the final moments of the woman brutally killed in an “honour killing” case in Balochistan are fake and AI-generated.
Background image in cover photo: Al Jazeera
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