Claim: Videos show a flooded toll plaza in Lahore, among other roads in the city, affected by the 2025 torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan.
Fact: The videos in question are AI-generated.
In August 2025, viral videos circulated on social media, suggesting severe flooding at the “Lahore Toll Plaza” as a torrential monsoon hit several cities across Pakistan. Some of these have eight different clips stitched together.
The accompanying caption reads, “لاہور ٹول پلازہ کی موجودہ صورتحال [The current situation of Lahore Toll Plaza]”.
Monsoon causes destruction in Pakistan
Pakistan’s monsoon season began in June 2025, wreaking havoc in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab, and Sindh. Coupled with the release of water from Indian dams, heavy rains contributed to widespread flooding due to overflowing rivers, including Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi.
Swollen rivers and floodwater submerged the villages, agricultural land, and residential areas situated along the edge of the rivers in Punjab.
The overall death toll from flash floods in Pakistan was over 1,000 as of 1 October, according to data (archive) compiled by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), which revealed that more than 500 of these fatalities were in KP.
Additionally, upwards of 1,000 people have been injured, 12,500 houses destroyed, and 6,500 livestock have perished since 6 June, according to the NDMA.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check observed multiple tell-tale signs of content generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in all of the eight clips featured in the video in the claim. In addition, the toll plaza looks different when compared with authentic images of the site (M-2) available online, such as on Google Maps.
Our observations are about the eight different clips stitched together in the viral posts in question.
For example, the first of the eight clips shows a board listing city names, including a non-existent “Islohore”. The door of a pickup truck opens the wrong way, the flag of Pakistan is missing the white part, and the vehicles on the left are moving too fast considering that they are at a toll plaza.
In the second clip, Islamabad is incorrectly written as “Islaniabad”. It also features illegible traffic signs and the Pakistani flag only has a crescent in it. Moreover, water seems to be flowing in an unnatural direction, out of the medians or dividers, instead of flowing normally across the road.
The third shows a distorted car on the right, only a crescent in the flag of Pakistan, a merged car and motorcycle bike, and a car spawning from under the toll plaza’s roof. The ripples created due to a moving bus also appear to continue beyond its median.
In the fourth one, we see “Siakot” mentioned instead of Sialkot, the Pakistani flag without the white part, and illegible traffic signs. In this video, too, water appears to be flowing unnaturally as if it’s coming out of the medians.
In the fifth clip, water appears to be randomly pouring over from the roof of the toll plaza.
The sixth video shows vehicles continuing to drive over the broken bridge as if without any brakes. It also depicts an incorrect driving system; Pakistan has right-hand drive (RHD) vehicles and left-hand traffic.
The incorrect driving system is also apparent in the seventh clip, with a bike spawning on the far-left side.
The eighth video features illegible text on a signboard at the bottom.
In some of the posts, we observed the TikTok handle @pathaniai on the side of the frame. This led us to an account, which has now changed its username to @pathankhanai, with the following text in its bio: “(Ai Course) UK/USA Acnt Availble 💕DM For Paid Promotion💕”.
The exact video from the claim can be found here (archive) on @pathankhanai’s TikTok account, where it was uploaded on 30 August 2025. We also found multiple similar clips that were created synthetically. Two of them are clearly labelled as AI-generated.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the clips circulating here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook, here, here, here, here, and here on Instagram, and here and here on YouTube.
The videos were also posted on X (formerly Twitter) here and here.
On TikTok, we found the clips shared here and here.
Conclusion: While the 2025 monsoon rains brought considerable destruction to the city, the videos in question of a flooded Lahore toll plaza are AI-generated.
Background image in cover photo: Google Maps
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