Claim: A video shows Sanam Javaid Khan clad in a dress with a plunging neckline while distributing sweets to children.
Fact: The video is edited, with Khan’s face doctored into it. It originally shows Indian content creator Muskan Karia.
On 2 September 2025, Threads user @iwasimhashmi posted (archive) a video, allegedly showing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activist Sanam Javaid Khan distributing sweets to children while wearing a dress with a plunging neckline.
Insinuating that Khan was being obscene in front of the minors on purpose, the Threads user wrote the following caption:
“یوتھیئوں کی بہن صنم جاوید کو دیکھو اور پھر اس کی خوش فہمیاں دیکھو واہ
[Look at Sanam Javaid, the Youthiyas’ sister, and then look at her vanity, wow.]”
“Youthiya”, a portmanteau combining the words “youth” with an abusive term in colloquial Urdu, is a derogatory manner of referring to PTI supporters.
Sanam Javaid Khan jailed
On 11 August 2025, the PTI activist was sentenced to five years in jail by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in cases pertaining to the 9 May 2023 unrest, which erupted the first time the party’s founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested.
She was earlier released from Kot Lakhpat Jail, officially called the Central Jail Lahore, in July 2025 after being arrested along with her husband, Professor Atiq, on 27 April, according to The Express Tribune.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check observed that there were some inconsistencies in the viral video, including blurry edges of the face and half-open eyes. When we reverse-searched keyframes from it, we were led to this Instagram post.
Using screengrabs from the aforementioned post, we ran another search, which turned up the same video posted by Instagram user @chillychuckler and X (formerly Twitter) user @TeluguTejam009 on 31 August and 2 September 2025, respectively. Other results showed additional clips by the same woman — identified as Muskan Karia, an Indian Instagram influencer who calls herself “India’s Biggest Snack Explorer” — in the same clothes.
We browsed Karia’s Instagram profile and found that she has posted videos of herself in the same hot-pink-coloured, printed shirt; these can be viewed here, here, here, and here. However, we could not find the specific clip in question.
Two videos — posted on 31 August and 1 September 2025 — by another Instagram account, @freecontentdaily, shows the Indian influencer in the same clothes, with one of the children wearing a maroon shirt appearing in both. The second of these clips depicts her in the same kitchen as in the viral clip.
On 31 August 2025, @freecontentdaily also posted the viral clip that clearly shows her face, not Khan’s.
Moreover, the PTI activist’s sister, Falak Javaid Khan, also responded (archive) to the viral doctored video on X, writing:
“یہ کتے کا بچا خواتین کی فیک AI ویڈیو لگاتا ہے اور شریفوں کا پورا ٹبر اس کو سپورٹ کرتا ہے یہ پورا خاندان بار بار ثابت کرتا ہے کہ یہ واقعی شاہی محلے کی پیداوار ہے
[This son of a bitch posts fake AI videos of women and the entire Sharif tribe supports him. This entire family proves time and again that it is truly a product of the Shahi Mohallah]”
Shahi Mohallah, or Royal Neighbourhood, refers to Lahore’s Heera Mandi area, which used to be the redlight district, an artistic hub, and the residence of courtesans in the Mughal era.
A comparison of the original and doctored video is available below:
Deepfake detection tools
Soch Fact Check also ran the video in various detectors to figure out if there was any manipulation using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
The first tool we tested is DeepFake-O-Meter, developed by the University at Buffalo’s Media Forensics Lab (UB MDFL).
Of the detectors available on DeepFake-O-Meter, we used AVSRDD, CFM, DSP-FWA, LIPINC, SBI, WAV2LIP-STA, and XCLIP; according to the results, the probabilities of the video being AI-generated are 100.0%, 54.1%, 93.9%, 83.8%, 27.2%, 64.6%, and 99.4%, respectively. The combined average, therefore, is 74.7%.
Attestiv, on the other hand, said parts of the video in question “are very suspicious”, with a Technical Suspicion Rating (TSR) of 77 out of 100.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the video has been falsely linked to Sanam Javaid Khan and, in fact, shows an Indian content creator.
Manipulated videos of prominent women
This is not the first time women public figures have been targeted with doctored images and videos, which are designed to cast them in a negative light. Disinformation of this nature can result in harmful consequences for their career and reputation and even endanger their safety in some cases.
In the past, Soch Fact Check has debunked a doctored video of Azma Bokhari that went viral, prompting her to approach the Lahore High Court. Additionally, Sanam Javaid Khan herself was targeted back in July 2024 with a fake clip claiming to show her lawyer embracing her; however, we identified that it was actually her father.
We have also debunked fake or doctored videos and images of lawyer and activist Imaan Mazari, former PM Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, PTI leader Zartaj Gul Wazir, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Meena Majeed, and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hina Parvez Butt.
Virality
It appears that @iwasimhashmi posted the video not just on Threads but on Facebook and Instagram as well.
Soch Fact Check found that the video was posted by other users here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook.
It was also shared here and here on Instagram.
Conclusion: The video is edited, with Khan’s face doctored into it. It originally shows Indian content creator Muskan Karia.
Background image in cover photo: sanamjavaidkhan
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