Claim: At a protest rally in Peshawar this month, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi responded to DG ISPR’s recent press conference, using derogatory language. Fact: An AI-generated deepfake audio was likely overlaid onto footage from the KP Chief Minister’s address in Peshawar earlier this month. A video of Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
Claim: A video shows Field Marshal Asim Munir crying while delivering a speech. Fact: The clip is fake. A reel shared recently on Facebook shows the Field Marshal breaking down into tears. Fact or Fiction? Soch Fact Check suspected the video is fake, mainly as it appeared to be tongue-in-cheek humour or spoof. The video […]
Claim: A video shows Aleema Khan calling Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir a radicalised Islamist who wants a war with India, during an interview with Yalda Hakim of Sky News. Fact: The clip is doctored. Moreover, Yalda Hakim refuted the claim, saying it was a deepfake. On 3 December, an X user that Soch […]
Claim: A video shows a man sculpting a statue of former prime minister Imran Khan. Fact: The video is AI-generated. A video shared online shows an old man sculpting a statue of Imran Khan. The video was captioned: “چچا اس کی قیمت تو ہم ادا نہیں کر سکتے پر دل سے دعا ہے اللّٰہ پاک […]
Claim: An image going viral on social media claims that it shows a female Pakistani military doctor who has been martyred at the Pak-Afghan border. Fact: The claim is false. The image is AI-generated using Google’s Gemini model. There are no credible reports of any such incident. Additionally, the Pakistan Army does not deploy women […]
Claim: Several Pakistani news casters are shown in a video, saying that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced the disbursement of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) for beneficiaries in Punjab, including Lahore. The audio in the video further claims that after a PKR13,000 relief package was announced, Sharif announced a payout of PKR 400,000. […]
Claim: A video shows police cracking down on PTI supporters outside Adiala jail, where Imran Khan is jailed. Fact: The clip is at least a year old and therefore unrelated to the recent protests by PTI supporters outside Adiala jail. On 26 November, an X user posted a clip (archive) claiming it shows the police […]
Claim: A video shows the police manhandling Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi outside Adiala jail in November 2025. Fact: The video is not connected to the recent protests as it appeared online in May 2025. In November 2025, X users posted a video apparently showing police beating up the Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, […]
Claim: An image shows the former Prime Minister Imran Khan dead inside Adiala jail in November 2025. Fact: This is not true. The image actually shows Khan alive at a political rally and was posted by Khan himself on X in August 2014, over a decade ago. On 26 November, an X account, “Ministry of […]
Claim: Several videos have surfaced online showing Pakistan Army soldiers urging political leaders to improve the country’s socioeconomic conditions in light of the latest IMF report, calling for action to ease the hardships faced by poor citizens. Fact: The viral videos do not depict real events. All three were likely created using an AI text-to-video […]
Claim: Bangladesh replaced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s statue with one of Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan. Fact: We did not find any credible news reports or other evidence to suggest that such a statue exists anywhere in Bangladesh. The image of Imran Khan’s statue in the claim is fake. A video shared on Facebook contains the […]
Claim: Bollywood Actor Aishwarya Rai publicly addressed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him controversial questions about India’s losses in the 2025 India-Pakistan military conflict. Fact: The video is manipulated using AI. The original video is from the centenary celebrations of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, where Rai delivered a speech on peace, love, and […]