Claim: A video shows JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman apologising during a National Assembly session demanding to know why he is being punished.
Fact: The audio of the clip is AI-generated.
On 28 October 2026, a Facebook account named ‘Leaked Pakistan News’ shared a clip of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl’S (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman standing in the National Assembly, apologising and demanding to know why he is being punished. The clip comes after he criticised the government’s decision to impose an emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 11 October 2026.
The caption reads:
“دیکھیں فضلو کیسے آج بھی اسمبلی میں معافی کے ترلے کرتا رہا لیکن تقریر کا یہ والا کوئی شئیر نہیں کرتا رہا۔”
[Translation: “Look at how Fazlu kept pleading for forgiveness in the assembly even today—yet no one is sharing this particular part of his speech.”
Governor’s rule in KP
On 11 October 2026, the federal government imposed an emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The development came after President Asif Ali Zardari gave his approval under Articles 232 and 234 of the Constitution. The articles deal with the proclamation of emergency and the imposition of governor’s rule in a province, in case of “failure of constitutional machinery”, respectively.
President Zardari approved the summary after his meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif a day prior, on 10 October 2026, where they discussed the possibility of imposing an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The move came after talks between the PML-N-led federal government and the PTI-led government in KP on 3 October reached a “deadlock” over the discussion of PTI’s long march to Islamabad and counter-terrorism policy in KPK.
Following the imposition of Governor’s Rule in KP, the federal government formed an 11-member technocratic KP Advisory Council to assist Governor Faisal Karim Kundi with taking charge of the province. Simultaneously, KP Information Minister Shafi Jan and MNA Shahid Khattak took to their X accounts and claimed that Afridi had been arrested. A day later, on 12 October 2026, Chaudhry confirmed to Reuters that Afridi and some of his cabinet members were in preventive custody. He further clarified that those facing criminal cases would be charged and tried while the rest will be released.
Later, on 16 October 2026, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman accused the federal government of depriving provinces of its rights. Addressing a rally in Multan, Rehman raised doubts over the centre’s justification for imposing an emergency in KP i.e. PTI’s lack of cooperation on counter-terrorism policy.
He stated, “It’s not about PTI; it’s about the principle that wherever there is an opposition government, you topple it, and that FATA whose reserves and resources had become part of the province – you’ve imposed an emergency and made all those resources subject to the federation.”
On the same day, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told journalists in Lahore that the “head of a party is upset” about not being appointed the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. State Minister for Interior Talal Chaudhry then pointedly criticised the JUI-F chief for seeking his “share” in KP’s governance following the imposition of an emergency.
On 17 October 2026, Rehman addressed another press conference in Lahore and clarified that he intended to criticise policies, not the institutions. Simultaneously, he also called for an in-camera parliament session to discuss the country’s security situation and reiterated his objection to the imposition of Emergency Rule in KP.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check first looked for credible news publications reporting on Rehman apologising for his remarks but couldn’t find anything. We then conducted a reverse-image search to trace the original source of the clip. This led to a YouTube video titled “JUI F chief/MNA Maulana Fazal Ur Rehman expresses his views during National Assembly Session”, posted on the official channel of the National Assembly of Pakistan on 28 October 2026.
Nowhere does the JUI-F chief make the statement attributed to him in the claim nor does he apologise for his remarks.
Soch Fact Check further ascertained that the clip under investigation has been manipulated using an instance on 3:23 when a man walks behind Rehman. At that particular moment in the video, Rehman originally recalls his mediating role between the PTI and the federal government, when the former’s long march was approaching Islamabad in September.
Top: Clip under investigation. Bottom: The original video on the YouTube channel of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Since Rehman did not apologise for his remarks in the original version, Soch Fact Check suspected manipulation in the video in the claim and ran it through Hive Detect initially. The tool flagged the audio of the clip as 82.4% AI-generated.
Result by Hive Detect.
Then UncovAI, an AI content detection platform based in France which is backed by NVIDIA Inception, flagged the video as 96% human, and the audio as 100% AI-generated.
Result by UnCovAI.
To further confirm this result, Soch Fact Check also ran the video’s audio through Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector. It gave an authenticity score of 2/100 and 2/100 for different parts of the audio, concluding that the sampled voice is “likely a deepfake.”
Result by Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector.
The fact that the original video does not show Rehman asking for forgiveness during a National Assembly session, and that results from AI detection tools strongly rated the audio as AI-generated, Soch Fact Check confirms that the claim is false. The audio of the clip is fake.
Virality
Soch Fact Check first came across a viral Facebook post with as many as 688,000 views and 20,600 likes.
It garnered more reach after receiving an additional 278,000 and 79,000 views via separate posts.
Conclusion: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman did not express remorse over his comments or ask for forgiveness during a National Assembly session. The audio of the clip is AI-generated.