Claim: A “leaked” picture shows Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi secretly meeting Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi.
Fact: The image has been generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools; however, a meeting between the two did take place and Afridi has publicly acknowledged it as well, indicating that it did not take place in secret.
On 30 May 2026, a Facebook user shared a picture apparently showing KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi secretly meeting Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi. The accompanying caption reads as follows:
“سہیل آفریدی اور محسن نقوی ! ! دن کو بھائی بھائی رات کو ایک چارپائی !😂😂 والا کام لگایا ہوا انہوں نے عوام کے ساتھ 🙏
[Sohail Afridi and Mohsin Naqvi! ! What they are doing with the public is the example of ‘Brothers in the day and sharing the same bed at night !😂😂’]”
Another Facebook user also shared the same picture on 26 May 2026, alongside a caption that included a verse.
“#ټپه خبره لاړه ډنډوره شوه جانانه خپل غم دې کوه خپل له کوومه
[#Verse: The secret is out, My dear, you worry about yourself and I’ll worry about myself]”
“اب یہ نہ کہنا کہ خفیہ ملاقات کی یہ تصویر فیک ہے، البتہ جس نے بھی یہ تصویر لیک کی ہے سہیل آفریدی کیساتھ بہت ظلم کیا ہے وزیر داخلہ محسن نقوی کی خفیہ ملاقات کی شدید الفاظ میں مذمت کرتے ہیں کیونکہ اگر ملاقات خفیہ کرنی تھی تو خفیہ تصویر وائرل کیوں کی؟ ایک شدید یوتھیے کا شکوہ
[Now don’t say that this picture of the secret meeting is fake; however, whoever leaked this picture has done a lot of injustice to Sohail Afridi. We strongly condemn the secret meeting by Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi because if the meeting was supposed to be secret, why did the secret picture go viral? A strong Youthiya’s grievance]”
“Youthiya” — a portmanteau combining the words “youth” with an expletive in colloquial Urdu — is used, more often than not, in a derogatory manner to refer to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) supporters.
Afridi-Naqvi meeting in May 2026
On 24 May 2026, Aleema Khanum — the sister of the incarcerated former Prime Minister and PTI founder Imran Khan — responded to an X (formerly Twitter) post stating that according to Pakistani YouTuber Asad Ali Toor, KP CM Afridi and her had held a meeting with Interior Minister Naqvi at the residence of the party’s chairperson Barrister Gohar Ali Khan.
“Barrister Gohar and Sohail Afridi met Mohsin Naqvi. Our family had no knowledge of this meeting and neither was any family member present,” she wrote.
Afridi responded to Khanum the same day, saying, “My meeting with Mohsin Naqvi was regarding the terrorist incidents in Bannu and the peace and order in the province and there were no political discussions, as is being reported.”
The same day, Dawn reported that according to PTI Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram, “the meeting was held to discuss the issue of terrorism in KP”.
Akram explained that the meeting was held on 14 May and “was strictly related to law and order matters, including the Bannu security situation and broader public order concerns”, according to a 25 May 2026 report in The Express Tribune.
On 27 May 2026, KP Chief Minister’s Special Assistant for Information and Public Relations Shafiullah Jan confirmed to Samaa TV that the meeting — which was “not secret” — took place on 14 May 2026. He said it was held the same day Afridi visited Bannu and Hangu, which were the target of a bombing and a mortar attack, killing more than a dozen people.
In a 1 June 2026 talk show on BOL News, Jan said he had confirmed the meeting took place on 20 May.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check found an uncropped version of the same image in another Facebook post that we tested using Hive Moderation.
According to the tool, the image is 98.1% likely to be AI-generated or deepfake content and that there was a 93.7% chance it was created using Google’s Gemini 3 among different models.
Taking cues from this, we checked if the visual contains SynthID, an imperceptible watermark embedded in all content generated by Google’s AI tools. To do so, we ran it through a dedicated detector, which currently works through Gemini in Pakistan.
The SynthID Detector confirmed with “very high” confidence that the photo was made with Google AI.
Screenshots of results from Hive Moderation and Google’s SynthID tool
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the photo was created using AI tools.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the image shared in more than 20 Facebook posts, 15 Instagram posts, four Threads, and three X posts.
Conclusion: The image has been generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools; however, a meeting between the two did take place and Afridi has publicly acknowledged it as well, indicating that it did not take place in secret.
Background image in cover photo: ImMuhammadSohailAfridi
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