Claim: A video shows Sindh Assembly’s Deputy Speaker Anthony Naveed, partially clothed with a drink in his hand and dancing to a song, with a woman joining him briefly.
Fact: The video does not depict Naveed but an unidentified man. It has been online since as far back as 2019 and linked to multiple other South Asian public figures.
On 30 May 2026, Facebook page ‘Ijaz Raja IB’ posted a video showing an intoxicated man, claiming it is the Sindh Assembly’s deputy speaker in scant clothing, dancing to a Pakistani political party’s anthem, with a woman joining him briefly at the beginning.
The caption accompanying the post reads as follows:
“یہ ہے محترم جناب پیپلز پارٹی سندھ اسمبلی کے ڈپٹی اسپیکر یہ عوام کی تقدیر بدلے گے ⚔️ کمانڈو804⚔️
[This is the respected deputy speaker of the PPP[-led] Sindh Assembly; he will change the destiny of the people ⚔️ Commando 804⚔️]”
Presently, the Sindh Assembly’s Deputy Speaker is Anthony Naveed and the song playing in the video is “Dila Teer Bija,” the anthem of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), which holds the majority of seats in the provincial legislature. He was appointed to the post on 25 February 2024.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check first observed that the man does not resemble Naveed. For comparison, below is a visual showing the dancing individual and the deputy speaker’s face from a video shared on the Sindh Assembly’s Facebook page on 4 May 2026, his profile on the provincial legislature’s website, and his Facebook account.
Comparison visual showing the face of the dancing man from the viral video and that of Deputy Speaker Anthony Naveed from a video shared on the Sindh Assembly’s Facebook page, his profile on the provincial legislature’s website, and his Facebook account
We then reverse-searched keyframes from the viral video and found that it does not show Naveed at all but an unidentified person.
The reverse-search results led us to the same video posted on 22 October 2019 by YouTube channel Vinit Kumar.
Man linked to several South Asian public figures
The results also turned up multiple fact-checks by Indian outlets accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), such as BOOM, FactCrescendo, and Alt News, which have debunked claims linking the man to different public figures in 2019, 2020, and 2022.
According to the Indian fact-checking organisations, social media users falsely claimed in October 2019 that the man is Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Sudhanshu Trivedi. FactCrescendo also noted that one person alleged the individual was a Malaysian government official.
In two separate instances, BOOM debunked claims asserting that the dancing man was BJP lawmaker Anil Upadhyay and said that such a person did not exist within the leadership of India’s current ruling party. In the second case, the individual was falsely alleged to be SM Tanvir Arafat, the superintendent of police (SP) of Kushtia, a city in Bangladesh.
In the 24 October 2019 article, which debunked claims about the non-existent Upadhyay, BOOM wrote, “Through various checks and looking at the official list of MLAs in the BJP, we confirmed that there is no MLA named Anil Upadhyay. […] BOOM had conducted an in-depth analysis into the fictional character and found that there was no such leader in either of the political parties.”
In the 28 December 2020 article debunking claims about Arafat, BOOM wrote that the man was previously alleged to be the late executive editor of Bangladesh Pratidin, Pir Habibur Rahman. It also said that the country’s fact-checking organisation BD FactCheck “found the original video on a YouTube channel called Dhakad News”, which was published on 2 October 2019. However, no link to the said clip was provided.
On 2 February 2022, BOOM again fact-checked the claim when it resurfaced, writing that “the fictitious character of Upadhyay … has been used to spread misinformation against BJP and [Indian National] Congress”.
Lastly, there have been no verifiable reports by reputable Pakistani media outlets about the purported video.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the video has been falsely linked to Naveed.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the claim posted dozens of times on Facebook, 10 times on Instagram, and at least once on YouTube.
On X (formerly Twitter), it has collectively gained over 109,000 views so far.
One X post by an Indian user racked up more than 406,000 views.
Interestingly, the video also surfaced in Pakistan in August 2024 in at least two Facebook posts, but the accompanying captions claimed it showed a “Sindh Secret Service agent” or a “luxury-loving peepla”, a word colloquially used to refer to a PPP supporter.
Conclusion: The video does not depict Naveed but an unidentified man. It has been online since as far back as 2019 and linked to multiple other South Asian public figures.
Background image in cover photo: Anthony Naveed MPA Sindh
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