Claim: Dr Adeeb Rizvi has advised people against taking medication for blood pressure issues and undergoing medical procedures such as surgeries. Instead, he promoted a natural recipe of his own, while claiming the success and effectiveness of the said cure in an audio message.
Fact: The audio is fake and wrongly attributed to Dr Rizvi. Soch Fact Check’s analysis revealed that it was synthetically created, likely using AI tools. The SIUT, which he founded, did not provide a comment but said it had referred the content in question to Pakistan’s cybercrime authorities.
A TikTok post (archive) claiming that one of Pakistan’s top surgeons and renowned philanthropist, Dr Adeeb Rizvi, has advised against taking medication for blood pressure issues and promoted an unnamed natural recipe has been viewed thousands of times on social media.
The post contains a picture and the alleged voice of Dr Rizvi — a kidney specialist who is also the founder of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) — making these dubious health-related claims.
The audio starts with a female voice stating: “The Internet was set on fire when Pakistan’s famous Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi said in front of everyone that people who are treating blood pressure through tablets [medicine] in 2025 are either crazy or duping the public. The doctor openly said that these old medicines are just a temporary illusion; the root problem remains as is. At the same time, his recommended medicine has taken the market by storm. Thousands of people have expressed heartfelt gratitude. Let’s listen to the doctor’s own words.”
The voiceover mentions the philanthropist’s full name, which is Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi.
Then, the alleged voice of Dr Rizvi starts speaking. It says people who use medicines for blood pressure issues are “frauds”, casts doubt on doctors who prescribe medicines. It also warns of their deathly side effects and advocates for avoiding surgeries.
“I have prepared a great natural recipe that eliminates the symptoms of high blood pressure in just three days,” the voice states, adding that it is the solution to “high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, chest pain, heart palpitations, and swelling”.
It goes on to say, “Our medicine has broken every record and more than 100,000 people from Pakistan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh have given good reviews.”
The full transcript of the voice in Urdu — and its English translation — is as follows:
“اسلام علیکم بھائیوں اور بہنوں۔ جی ہاں، میں نے ان لوگوں کو فراڈی کہا ہے جو آج بھی دو ہزار پچیس میں بلڈ پریشر کی گولیوں سے علاج کر رہے ہیں۔ جو ڈاکٹر آپ کو لوسارٹن، اٹنولول یا پروپرانولول دے رہے ہیں وہ اصل میں کچھ نہیں جانتے۔ بھائیوں اور بہنوں، آپ ہمیشہ کے لیے زندہ نہیں ہیں، آپ کو اپنی صحت کا خیال رکھنا چاہیے۔ میں دل سے آپ کے لیے پریشان ہوں۔ جو دوائیں آپ کو دی جا رہی ہیں ان کے سائیڈ افیکٹ اتنے خطرناک ہیں کہ وہ فالج یا دل کی شریان پھٹنے سے پہلے ہی آپ کو قبر کے قریب کر دیتے ہیں۔
[Assalam o Alaikum, brothers and sisters. Yes, I have labelled as frauds the people who are still treating you with blood pressure pills in 2025. The doctors who are giving you Losartan, Atenolol or Propranolol don’t actually know anything. Brothers and sisters, you do not live forever. You should take care of your health. I am deeply worried about you. The side effects of the medicines you are being given are so dangerous that they push you closer to the grave [your death] even before you suffer paralysis or a heart attack.]”
“اگر آپ چاہتے ہیں کہ آپریشن نہ ہو تو میری بات کو سنجیدگی سے سنیں۔ میں نے ایک زبردست قدرتی نسخہ تیار کیا ہے، جو صرف تین دن میں ہائی بلڈ پریشر کی علامات ختم کر دیتا ہے اور دل کو اندر سے ٹھیک کرنا شروع کر دیتا ہے۔ آپ کی یادداشت پچپن گناں بہتر ہو جائے گی اور ایک لاکھ نئے نیورون پیدا ہوں گے۔ خون کے جمع ہوئے لوتھڑے گھل جاتے ہیں اور پورا جسم مکمل طاقت سے کام کرنے لگتا ہے۔ بس دن میں ایک بار یہ نسخہ استعمال کریں اور ہمیشہ کے لیے ہائی بلڈ پریشر، دل کی بے ترتیبی، سینے کا درد، دل کی گھبراہت، اور سوجن کو بھول جائیں۔
[If you want to avoid surgery, listen to me seriously. I have prepared a great natural recipe that eliminates the symptoms of high blood pressure in just three days and starts healing the heart from within. Your memory will improve 55 times and 100,000 new neurons will be created. The accumulated blood clots dissolve and the whole body starts working at full strength. Just use this recipe once a day and forget about high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, chest pain, heart palpitations, and swelling forever.]”
“ہماری دوا نے ہر ریکارڈ توڑ دیا ہے اور پاکستان، انڈونیشیا، اور بنگلہ دیش سے ایک لاکھ سے زیادہ لوگوں نے خوش ہو کر اچھے ریویو دیئے ہیں۔ یہ دوا آپ اپنے لیے بھی لے سکتے ہیں اور اپنے والدین یا عزیزوں کے لیے بھی۔ اس نسخے سے آپ ٹانگوں، سر، اور سینے کے درد سے نجات حاصل کر سکتے ہیں۔ بغیر کسی آپریشن، بغیر مہنگی دواوں، اور بغیر بار بار کلنک کے چکر۔ نیچے ویڈیو کے نیچے دیئے گئے بٹن پر کلک کریں اور خود دیکھیں یہ کتنا آسان محفوظ اور تیز ہے۔ اور سب سے بڑی بات یہ ہر بندے کی پہنچ میں ہے۔ اگر آپ کو یقین نہیں تو ٹھیک ہے، لیکن پھر تکلیف کے ساتھ جینا آپ کا فیصلہ ہے۔ بھائیوں اور بہنوں، میں آپ کو ڈرانا نہیں چاہتا۔ میں کاروباری آدمی نہیں ہوں۔ میں وہ بندہ ہوں جس نے اپنی ساری زندگی علاج اور لوگوں کی خدمت میں لگا دی ہے۔
[Our medicine has broken every record and more than 100,000 people from Pakistan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh have given good reviews. You can take this medicine for yourself and for your parents or loved ones. With this prescription, you can get relief from leg, head, and chest pain without any surgery, without expensive medicines and without repeated visits to clinics. Click on the button below the video and see for yourself how easy, safe, and fast it is and the most important thing is that it is within the reach of every person. If you are not sure, then it is okay, but then it is your decision to live with the pain. Brothers and sisters, I do not want to scare you. I am not a businessman. I am a person who has dedicated his entire life to treatment and serving people.]”
“میں آپ سے کچھ نہیں مانگتا۔ بس اتنا کی اپنی صحت پر توجہ دیں۔ یہ دوا کسی کمپنی کی نہیں، یہ عوام کی ہے۔ یہ نسخہ اب تک ایک لاکھ سے زیادہ لوگوں کی زندگی بدل چکا ہے۔ وہ لوگ بلکل آپ کی طرح تھے۔ شفا اللہ دیتا ہے اور اب آپ کی باری ہے۔ اگر آپ کو یقین نہیں تو وہ آپ کا حق ہے، لیکن میں ان لوگوں کے ساتھ ضرور کھڑا ہوں گا جو اپنی زندگی بدلنا چاہتے ہیں۔ میں چپ نہیں رہ سکتا جب مجھے پتا ہے کہ لوگ تکلیف میں ہیں، حالانکہ حل موجود ہے۔ آپ چاہیں تو پرانی گولیاں کھاتے رہیں جو صرف وقتی آرام دیتی ہیں یا آپ ایک قدم آگے بڑھا سکتے ہیں اصل شفا کی طرف، بغیر درد، بغیر آپریشن، بغیر خوف۔ فیصلہ آپ کے ہاتھ میں ہے، لیکن یاد رکھیں موقع موجود ہے اور وہ آپ کے سامنے ہیں۔ ابھی نیچے دیئے گئے بٹن پر کلک کریں، دیکھیں یہ کیسے کام کرتا ہے اور سب کچھ اپنی آنکھوں سے پڑھیں جب تک یہ موقع موجود ہے۔
[I am not asking anything from you, just pay attention to your health. This medicine does not belong to any company. It belongs to the people. This prescription has changed the lives of more than 100,000 people so far. Those people were just like you. Only Allah grants recovery. Now, it is your turn. If you are not sure, that is your right. But I will definitely stand with those who want to change their lives. I cannot remain silent when I know that people are suffering even though there is a solution. If you want, you can keep taking the old pills that only give temporary relief or you can take a step forward towards real healing, without pain, without surgery, without fear. The decision is in your hands, but remember, the opportunity is there and it is in front of you. Click on the button below now to see how it works and read everything with your own eyes while this opportunity is still there.]”
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check searched for news reports from any reputable media outlets as to whether Dr Rizvi has made such a statement or announced a new cure for blood pressure; however, we did not find any.
Additionally, Dr Rizvi is a kidney specialist, so it is unlikely for him to give advice about or develop a cure for blood pressure issues and hypertension.
Using reverse image search tools, we were able to trace the source of the surgeon’s photo, which is a static image from an interview published by the media company VCast Online on 7 May 2019; we corroborated this by matching different elements as shown below:
On the left is a screenshot of the viral TikTok post; on the right is a screenshot from Dr Adeeb Rizvi’s interview by VCast Online
The interview can be viewed on the outlet’s website, YouTube, and Facebook. The same was also uploaded to the SIUT’s YouTube channel in December that year.
Moreover, the voice in the viral TikTok post has an unusual accent, as opposed to Dr Rizvi’s characteristic clear and crisp way of speaking. It is also very uncharacteristic of him to mispronounce simple English words, such as “blood,” “clinic,” and “click,” and Urdu ones, such as “sar (head)”, “tavajjoh (attention)”, and “shifaa (recovery).”
The same was pointed out by some users in the comments of the viral TikTok video.
When some people asked for the name of the supposed “cure” in the comments, the user who posted the audio responded to them with the same statement, which is as follows:
“:ایک لیٹر پانی میں 5 چھوٹی الائچی ابال کر ٹھنڈا کر کے پینا شروع کریں
[Boil 5 small cardamoms in one liter of water, let it cool and start drinking.]”
A visual comprising screenshots of comments in which the TikTok user has responded with the aforementioned phrase to people asking for the name of the new supposed “cure”.
However, the aforementioned “cure” was not mentioned by the voice claiming to be Dr Rizvi’s.
Furthermore, Dr Rizvi is known to make evidence-based remarks publicly, normally in line with medical ethics, as seen in his interviews. It is unlikely of him to make sweeping claims, engage in a sales-like pitch or promote unnamed remedies.
Deepfake audio detection tools
We ran various tests on the dubious audio using deepfake detectors available online.
The first tool is AI Speech Classifier, which is created by ElevenLabs, an artificial intelligence (AI) voice generation platform that offers voice cloning, voice changing, and text-to-speech (TTS) services. It said there was a 98% likelihood of the recording being synthetically generated using its own software.
Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector provided an authenticity score of 4 out of 100, stating that the sampled voice “is likely a deepfake”.
The third tool, Resemble Detect, concluded that the audio was “fake”.
Two other tools that we used are Deepware Scanner and Zhuque AI Detection Assistant, both of which review image or video samples. The former said it did not detect any deepfake and the latter noted that the file was “not likely to be AI-generated” with an “AI probability of 38.77%”.
An issue that likely affected the evaluation process of Deepware Scanner and Zhuque AI Detection Assistant is that both test image or video samples. However, since the content we uploaded is a clip of an audio stitched to a static image, it probably skewed the results from the two detectors.
Sound engineer’s observations
Soch Fact Check also sought a comment from Shaur Azher, a lecturer who teaches sound design and sound recording at the University of Karachi and the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST). He also works as an audio engineer at our sister company, Soch Videos, and specialises in mixing and mastering audio.
“The recording attributed to Dr Adeeb Rizvi demonstrates multiple acoustic and structural inconsistencies when compared to the authentic reference” of his voice in other sources, such as interviews, Azher said.
He added, “The restricted frequency range, absence of natural room acoustics and incidental sounds, monotone speech pattern, and presence of repetitive editing cuts strongly indicate that the recording has been manipulated or synthetically generated.”
The technical observations — which includes comparison of authentic and suspect recordings — behind his conclusion are as follows:
- Frequency spectrum analysis:
- Authentic recording: Frequency content spans from approximately 100 Hz to 13,000 Hz, which is consistent with natural speech and ambient room characteristics.
- Suspect recording: Frequency content is limited — ranging from 100 Hz to 5,000 Hz — indicating significant loss of high-frequency detail that is typically associated with speech clarity and environmental acoustics.
- Room tone and environmental noise:
- Authentic recording: Presence of consistent room tone and natural room reverberation. Additionally, background elements — such as subtle noise and environmental reflections — are identifiable.
- Suspect recording: Absence of room tone and room reverb suggests isolation of speech or synthetic generation of the voice in an acoustically-dead environment.
- Clothing artefacts:
- Authentic recording: Detectable sounds consistent with movement of clothing that align with natural body motion during speech.
- Suspect recording: No detectable clothing or handling sounds, further supporting the hypothesis of artificial or heavily edited content.
- Speech delivery:
- Authentic recording: Varied pitch, tone, and pacing, which are consistent with natural human speech patterns.
- Suspect recording: Noticeable monotone delivery with limited dynamic variation, suggesting synthetic generation or post-processing artefacts.
- Editing artefacts:
- Authentic recording: No cuts unless an editor does it deliberately for cinematic or documentary purposes.
- Suspect recording: Evidence of splice cuts at approximately every six to eight seconds, indicating possible assembly from multiple audio segments or tampering.
Linguist’s analysis
Soch Fact Check also reached out to Mariam Dar, a computational linguist and Vice President of Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) at JPMorgan Chase, for an analysis of the audio. For reference and comparison purposes, we provided her three authentic interviews of Dr Rizvi by SAMAA TV, ARY News, and Aaj TV that were uploaded on YouTube on 10 May 2021, 8 June 2011, and 8 May 2021.
Dar observed Dr Rizvi’s alleged remarks in the audio being fact-checked and noted its monotony, mechanical timing, a lack of natural pauses and the sound of breath, and its varying speeds. “Lack of pitch contour and breath markers is a hallmark of text-to-speech (TTS) or voice-cloned audio,” she explained.
One of the phonological and lexical anomalies she listed was the manner of English-Urdu code-switching, about which she wrote: “Dr Rizvi’s verified recordings show deliberate, clear code-switching with professional medical terminology. In the suspicious audio, English words are inserted abruptly without proper phonological integration, e.g., ‘side effect’ pronounced correctly in isolation, but surrounded by Urdu phrases with mismatched rhythm and stress.”
According to her, other anomalies include:
- Uncharacteristic English mispronunciations: Dr Rizvi’s professional background involves frequent correct pronunciation of medical English terms; suspicious audio contains cluster simplification (blood → [bʌld]) and vowel changes (record, click).
- Improper religious and medical register: Words like “shifa Allah” are merged unnaturally, inconsistent with expected solemn emphasis.
She also noted a lack of “plosive bursts”, which means that in words such as “pressure” and “palpitations”, “the /p/ lacks the transient pop found in natural speech”.
“Voice cloning often inherits the accent of the source speaker or training data — here, there are strong cues pointing to a northeastern Punjab accent, not Dr Rizvi’s,” Dar explained. She added that the pronunciation and lexical anomalies “are atypical of Dr Rizvi’s documented speech patterns and are inconsistent with his sociolinguistic background and professional register”.
“The cumulative evidence — including phonetic inconsistencies, accent shift, unnatural prosody, and implausible medical content — strongly indicates that the suspicious clip is not an authentic recording of Dr Adeeb Rizvi,” she stated.
“The anomalies align with characteristics of voice cloning or synthetic speech generation, possibly trained on a speaker from a different regional background. Given the content and style, the recording appears to be fabricated with the intent to mislead,” she concluded.
Dar’s complete analysis report can be viewed below:
SIUT’s response
The SIUT did not provide a comment in response to Soch Fact Check’s emailed request but said it had reported the content to Pakistan’s cybercrime authorities.
Fake news linked to Dr Rizvi in past
It is important to note that this is not the first time Dr Rizvi’s name has been used to perpetuate false or misleading claims related to medicine, health advisories, and even himself.
In March 2024, the SIUT refuted a “baseless medical advisory” to avoid drinking tea in hotels across the country over contamination from harmful chemicals that could lead to “kidney failure”. Prior to that, in August 2023, the centre debunked a “totally baseless and unscientific report”, which claimed that a medicine to treat diabetes was launched under his supervision.
A fake advisory pertaining to the use of soft drinks during Ramzan and falsely attributed to Dr Rizvi has also circulated multiple times in the past. It was debunked in 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016.
Over the years, rumours about Dr Rizvi’s health and even his supposed death have been refuted.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the viral audio is wrongly attributed to Dr Rizvi. It was synthetically created, likely using AI tools.
Virality
As of writing time, the TikTok video has been viewed over 287,000 times.
Conclusion: The audio is fake and wrongly attributed to Dr Rizvi. It was synthetically created, likely using AI tools, as confirmed by a sound engineer, a linguist, and different tools that detect manipulation.
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