Claim: At a recent PTI sit-in near Adiala Jail, Aleema Khan said that “the government of Pharaoh did not even respect the Holy Quran. Remember, your days are numbered. The lust for power has stripped rulers of even their respect for the Quran.”
Fact: The viral clip is fake. While Aleema Khan criticised the government for spraying water on her and other PTI members during their Quran recitation at the 6 January sit-in near Adiala, she did not make the statement attributed to her in the video.
A video shared online contains the following text: “توبين قرآن
فرعون کے چیلے فرعون جیسی حرکتیں کرنے لگے
هیزیدیت کا نیا روپ”
[Translation: Insulting the Qur’an.
Pharaoh’s followers have begun acting like Pharaoh himself.
A new form of Yazidism.]
The clip shows women sitting on the floor, reading or reciting from books, when suddenly water begins flowing towards them. They stand up, and one of the women, supposedly Aleema Khan, says, “Firaun ki hukoomat ne Quran e paak ka bhi ehtaram na kiya. Yaad rakho tumharay deen thoray reh chukay hain. Iqtidar ki haus ne hukmaranoon se Quran ke ehtaram tak chheen liya.”
[Translation: The government of Pharaoh did not even respect the Holy Quran.
Remember, your days are numbered.
The lust for power has stripped rulers of even their respect for the Quran.]
Fact or Fiction?
We conducted a keyword search using the terms “Aleema Khan,” “Adiala jail,” “protest,” and “Quran recitation” to gain further context. We narrowed our search to reports mentioning a Quran recitation and found a Dawn article published on 7 January 2026 reported that Khan’s sisters’ attempt to meet him at Adiala Jail on 6 January was unsuccessful. This prompted them to stage a protest near the prison along with PTI leaders and supporters.
Police used water cannons at Factory Naka, where an anti-riot fence had been erected to prevent PTI leaders and supporters from advancing. After waiting for the water to subside, the protesters staged a sit-in at the site. The report added that later, Khan’s sisters, Aleema Khan, Uzma Khan, and Noreen Khan, along with their supporters, held a sit-in at Factory Naka amid a heavy police presence. Chairman of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan Allama Raja Nasir Abbas and Chairman of Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mehmood Khan Achakzai also arrived at the protest site later.
“Speaking to the media, Aleema Khan said that the delay in the scheduled Quran Khuwani [Quran recitation] occurred because roads leading to prison had been blocked. She said that barricade (sic) had been set up at various places and people were being stopped wherever they were, forcing them to hold Quran recitations on the spot,” according to Business Recorder.
Soch Fact Check also reviewed footage shared by different news outlets. A video by Public News showed water inundating the barricaded area where PTI protestors were reciting the Quran. Whereas, Capital TV’s coverage showed Aleema Khan speaking to the media saying that they are still “reciting Surah Yaseen, and will complete the Quran next week.” She added that “the water was sprayed because the Pharaohs are scared of the Quran, and they are now also scared of humans, of the public. They should be afraid, we must all be afraid of God. This is why we’ll pray to God and he’ll support us InshAllah.”
At no point in any of the available footage do we see Aleema Khan delivering the speech attributed to her in the viral clip, and the news articles on the protest do not attribute the statement to her either.
Most importantly, we noted that the viral video contains several visual and audio inconsistencies, commonly associated with manipulated content. For instance, as soon as the video begins, a woman’s voice can be heard speaking, even though Aleema Khan appears to stand up and begin speaking only moments later. Once she starts, the voice abruptly aligns with her, and her lip movements appear artificially synced with the audio.
Additionally, the woman mispronounces Urdu words such as din [days] as deen and hawas [lust] as haus.
Crucially, a comparison with photographs of Aleema Khan from the protest confirmeds that the woman in the clip being fact-checked is not her.
Comparison of Aleema Khan’s original images with the viral clip
Suspecting that the video was altered using AI, Soch Fact Check analysed it through DeepFake-O-Meter, using multiple AI-based detection models. The results for the video are as follows:
Deep Fake-O-Meter results
We first used the AVSRDD (2025) model, which is an AVSR-based audio and visual deepfake detection method that leverages speech correlation. The model uses dual-branch encoders for audio and video to support independent detection of each modality. It rated the likelihood of the video being a fake at 99.7%.
We then used the AltFreezing (2023) model, a deep-learning tool designed to detect fake videos. It works by analysing both visual details and changes to spot signs of manipulation. The model estimated a 78.2% likelihood that the video is fake.
Next, the video was examined using TALL (2023) model as it focuses on checking online videos, which are often compressed or altered in ways that hide fine details. By testing whether the video remains coherent after details are removed, TALL helps reveal manipulation that may not be obvious to the eye. It rated the probability of the video being fake at 99.9%.
The LIPINC (2024) model is a deep learning based method to detect lip-syncing deepfakes by identifying the spatial-temporal discrepancies in the mouth region of deepfake videos. This model rated the video 100% fake.
Lastly, the video was analysed using the XCLIP (2022) model, which rated the probability of the video being fake at 90.9%. This model uses cross-frame attention to analyse how frames relate to each other over time, making it good at spotting common signs of deepfakes such as facial movements, expressions, and temporal flow.
Given that the original footage of Aleema Khan from the protests does not show her making such a statement, and the visual and audio inconsistencies in the video, Soch Fact Check concludes that Aleema Khan’s statement in the claim is fabricated.
Virality
The claim gained significant traction on Facebook receiving over 19,000 likes and 4,000 shares. It was shared here (archive).
Conclusion: While Aleema Khan criticised the government for spraying PTI members with water during their Quran recitation at the 6 January protests near Adiala jail, she did not make the statement attributed to her in the claim. The video is fake.
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