Claim: A viral image shows CM Punjab Maryam Nawaz with a sketch of FM Asim Munir as her phone wallpaper.
Fact: The image has been digitally altered. The original photo of Maryam Nawaz does not show any such sketch on her phone.
On 10 September 2026, X user The Unknown Man posted an image of Maryam Nawaz with her phone visible and a sketch of Asim Munir as its wallpaper. The post is seen below:
Screenshot of Viral X post
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-image searched the photo of Maryam Nawaz to identify its origins. We found that the image had been circulated by different social media accounts. The original picture was found on Geo News UK Correspondent Murtaza Ali Shah’s X account and ARY News Correspondent for London Farid Qureshi’s Instagram. Both posts stated that the photo was taken during a meeting between Maryam Nawaz,PMLN UK President Ahsan Dar, and Youth Wing President Khurram Butt in London.
When compared, the image on the left, shared by the journalists, is clearly authentic as it displays a standard lockscreen where the digital time can be seen clearly against the wallpaper. Meanwhile, the image on the right has been edited, as the writing seems to be smudged or erased from the top in white against the wallpaper.
Left: Image from Farid Qureshi. Right: Image from Viral X post.
AI Detection Tools
Soch Fact Check ran the image through Hive Moderation’s scanner, specifically through the AI-Generated and Deepfake Content Detection scanner, used specifically for photos.The tool analyses visual patterns, textures, lighting,and facial features amongst other characteristics and provides a probable source of the image.
The overall result was 94.6% for the likelihood of AI-generation.Within the breakdown of “Generation Sources”,we see that it was 68.3% likely generated using Gemini3,a part of Google Deepmind where images can be created and edited in the Google AI Studio.This suggests that the image on the phone has been edited by one of these applications.
Results from Hive Moderation.
Furthermore, a second detector was used for validation and the results seen below were achieved through AI or Not.This detector can be used for images, videos and texts through Application Programming Interface giving 98.9% accuracy. In this case, the results as seen below were 74% deepfake and 21% AI respectively.This tells us that only the image on the phone, and nothing else, was edited.
Results from AI or Not.
Based on the original image and the findings of these AI detectors, we can conclude that the image of FM Asim Munir has been digitally edited onto the original photo.
Virality
The picture was found on all social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and X.
On X the image received 294.9K views.
Meanwhile, on Facebook a pro-PTI user who posted the image in a reel format received 2.7 million views and 30.9K likes.
Conclusion: The original photo of CM Maryam Nawaz taken in London was digitally altered to show a sketch of FM Asim Munir as her phone wallpaper.
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