Claim: An image shows the dead body of the woman who was the victim of a recent honour killing in Balochistan.
Fact: The image is likely AI-generated.
A Facebook user posted a photo purportedly showing the dead body of the woman who was killed, along with the man she was accused of having an affair with, in Balochistan, in the case of what was deemed an “honour killing“. The case caused widespread public uproar across Pakistan as a video of the couple’s killing went viral on social media in July 2025.
Part of the caption in the claim reads:
عورت کے اخری الفاظ”
میں نے نکاح کیا ہے… زنا نہیں
ڈیرہ بگٹی کے قریب ایک لڑکا اور لڑکی نے اپنی مرضی سے نکاح کر لیا۔
چپ چاپ رہنے لگے، کسی کو تکلیف نہ دی، بس ایک دوسرے کے ساتھ زندگی گزارنے کا خواب دیکھا۔
مگر یہاں خواب دیکھنے کی بھی سزا ہے۔
انہیں ڈھونڈ نکالا گیا۔
جرگے نے “واپسی” کا بہانہ بنایا۔
وہ دونوں یہ سوچ کر واپس آگئے کہ شاید بات سن لی جائے گی۔
لیکن بات سنی نہ گئی۔
جرگے نے فیصلہ سنایا کہ انہیں جینے کا کوئی حق نہیں۔
پہلے لڑکے کو گولی مار کر ختم کیا گیا۔
پھر لڑکی کو بھی گولیوں سے چھلنی کر دیا گیا۔
“یوں ایک کہانی کا اختتام ہو گیا۔
“The woman’s last words: I got married… I did not commit adultery. A boy and a girl got married of their own free will near Dera Bugti. They kept quiet, did not hurt anyone, just dreamed of living together. But there is also a punishment for dreaming. The jirga ruled that they had no right to live. First, the boy was shot dead. Then the girl was also riddled with bullets. Thus ended a story.”
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 Fact Check first analysed the image and found that it has all the signs of AI-generation.
The facial features and overall appearance of the woman’s face are smooth, almost perfect, with no visible blemishes and appear to be “waxy and shiny”, a sign that the image was created with AI software.
Her hair also appears airbrushed, another subtle indication that it is AI-generated.
The background, especially around the shoe area, as highlighted below, is blurred, which distorts that part of the image and indicates imperfections typical of AI.
Image from the claim showing the blurred area.
Comparing the image to the woman’s body, which briefly appears at the end of the actual viral video of the incident, also shows that the image in the claim is not authentic. Bano Bibi, the woman in question, can be seen in a dupatta throughout the video, even when she is shot and collapses onto the ground. A frame at the end of the original video shows her lying on the ground covered in a shawl the entire time, confirming that this image is a false representation of Bano Bibi.
Moreover, reverse-image and keyword searches also did not yield results from credible news outlets about this image, suggesting that it is fake.
Running the image through an AI-detection tool also suggested that the image is likely AI-generated. One such tool is DeepFake-o-Meter, an initiative of the University of Buffalo.
Seven out of the twelve algorithms, as shown below, yielded probabilities of 51.6%, 70.6%, 49.7%, 42.2%, 92.0%, 48.1%, and 56.3%, indicating that the image is likely AI-generated.
Results from DeepFake-o-Meter.
Therefore, Soch Fact Check concludes that the image of the woman, Bano Bibi, shared in the claim is fake.
Virality
The image appeared on Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
It also appeared on X here.
And on YouTube here.
Conclusion: The purported image of the woman’s dead body, who was a victim of a recent honour killing in Balochistan, is likely AI-generated.
Background image in cover photo: Amnesty International
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