Claim: A video shows a flooded street in Lahore’s Park View City, with water rising up to the roofs of parked cars, following heavy rains in various cities in Punjab in July 2026.
Fact: The video is not real. Originally posted in 2023, it was created using a flood simulation mobile application.
In mid-July 2026, multiple social media users shared a video apparently showing severe flooding in what they claimed was Park View City, a housing society owned by Communications Minister Abdul Aleem Khan.
The clip appears to have been shot from a mobile phone and shows water almost reaching up to the height of different cars parked in a street.
The person filming the video can be heard describing the scene in Urdu. Translated to English, his comments are as follows: “I just woke up and our street is flooded. Check this out. There is water everywhere in the houses. This street has almost completely drowned. Check out my car as well.”
Screenshot of the viral video
The viral video was accompanied by different captions such as:
- “علیم خان کا پارک ویو آج ’سی ویو‘ کا منظر پیش کر رہا تھا۔۔۔۔ [Aleem Khan’s Park View was looking like ‘Sea View’ today…]”
- “شدید بارش کے بعد پارک ویو سٹی لاہور میں گلیاں اور سڑکیں ندی نالوں کا منظر پیش کرنے لگیں۔ کئی گھروں میں پانی داخل ہوگیا جبکہ متعدد گاڑیاں سیلابی ریلے میں ڈوب گئیں۔ [After heavy rain, the streets and roads in Park View City Lahore started looking like canals and nullahs. Water entered many houses while several vehicles were submerged in the flood.]”
- “چالیس سال اقتدار، مگر ایک بارش نے ساری حقیقت کھول دی۔ لاہور سمیت پنجاب کے کئی علاقے پانی میں ڈوب گئے۔ صرف اشتہارات سے نظام نہیں چلتا، عوام کو نتائج چاہئیں۔ [Forty years of power, but one rain revealed the whole reality. Many areas of Punjab including Lahore were submerged in water. The system does not work with advertisements alone, the public wants results.]”
Rain, flooding in northern Pakistan
Torrential monsoon rains and heavy flooding across Pakistan have led to over 100 deaths, causing significant damage, house collapses, and displacement. The Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces were hit the hardest, with submerged neighbourhoods, power outages, urban flooding, disrupted traffic, and electrocutions reported in cities such as Lahore and Ferozewala.
Disaster management agencies and rescue teams were engaged in conducting evacuations, distributing relief supplies, and establishing camps across affected districts. However, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has warned that another intense monsoon spell is expected nationwide.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check observed multiple signs that point to the content either being edited or generated through artificial intelligence (AI) tools. For example, the water level is half the height of the gate of the house in front of the camera but appears to be above the cars parked outside.
Moreover, the water is too clean and clear, with no dirt or garbage visible. There are no splashes nor droplets on the camera lens either.
The water level does not change as it should when the camera moves; a distinct line is visible throughout, especially towards the end of the clip. It also moves in sync with the changing camera angles, which would not happen if it was authentic.
Interestingly, despite the large body of water, none of the cars are floating or even displaced, violating the laws of physics. There are no surface ripples or refraction either.
Soch Fact Check then ran the video through various AI and synthetic content detection tools.
According to Hive Detect, the sample is 17.2% likely to be an AI-generated video, 0.1% likely to have AI-generated speech, 0% likely to feature AI-generated music, and 0% likely to be a deepfake.
NVIDIA Synthetic Video Detector labelled the sample as a “real video”, with a synthetic score of 8.9%, which is “lower than threshold (30%)”, indicating that it is likely authentic.
However, at three timestamps — 8.97, 9.1, and 13:28 seconds — the score goes beyond the 30% threshold to 32.1%, 33.7%, and 34.9%, respectively.
Only Detectvideo AI provided a risk assessment that “manipulation indicators” were detected. “Multiple forensic signals are elevated, producing 67% AI/manipulation likelihood,” it added, noting a high confidence of 98%.
We then decided to perform a reverse-image search to check if the original uploader could be traced.
The results led us to a 6 July 2023 post (archive) on X (formerly Twitter) that featured the same video with a watermark of Instagram user @smansoorhaider.
A search for the account led to the original video posted (archive) on 13 March 2023. The accompanying caption reads, “Only Dumb people will say this is not real 😱 #flood #water #vfxmagic #reel #trend #aftereffects”.
The “#vfxmagic” and “#aftereffects” indicated that the video was altered or entirely generated synthetically. Upon further inspection of the account — which belongs to Syed Mansoor Haider, a Pakistani digital content creator and VFX artist focused on “3D/AI workflow” — we found multiple other similar videos featuring the same water illusion.
We also came across a tutorial posted by Haider, who explained that he used “Water Video Effect by Filtsy,” a mobile application that uses augmented reality (AR) tools to add floodwater to any clip.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the viral video is old and was created using a flood simulation mobile app.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the video posted by multiple Facebook users. It was also shared at least twice on Instagram.
On X, the clip gained more than 272,300 views across three posts.
The video was viewed over 4.3 million times on TikTok.
Conclusion: The video is not real. It was originally posted in 2023 and created using a flood simulation mobile application.
Background image in cover photo: Amjad Qureshi
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