Claim: A video shows a protester, associated with the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), opening straight fire at security personnel and killing two police officers on the spot in Rawalakot in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Fact: The video has been generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
On 28 and 29 July 2026, multiple social media users posted a video of a man they claimed was associated with the JAAC — a recently proscribed civil society group in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, also known as Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) — opening fire on security personnel and killing two police officers.
The accompanying caption reads as follows:
“جن لوگوں کو راولاکوٹ میں روڈوں پر گھومتی عوامی ایکشن کمیٹی کی زومبیز پر ترس آ رہا ہے وہ صرف ایک بار یہ ویڈیو دیکھ لیں جو کل کے احتجاج کی ہے۔۔ عوامی ایکشن کمیٹی کا یہ عمر نزیر کشمیری گروپ کا کارندہ سکیورٹی فورسز پر سٹریٹ فائر کر رہا ہے اور اسی سے دو پولیس اہلکاروں کی موقع پر شہادت بھی ہوئی تھی
[The people who feel sorry for the zombies of the Awami Action Committee roaming the roads in Rawalakot should watch this video once, which is from yesterday’s protest. This worker of the Awami Action Committee’s Umar Nazir Kashmiri group is firing directly at the security forces and this caused the martyrdom of two police officers on the spot.]”
Screenshot of the viral post
One of the users said in the caption, “The drama of oppression and fake propaganda created by AI [artificial intelligence] will not work anymore.”
Another user wrote the following caption, labelling the JAAC as “Indian Action Committee”:
“جن لوگوں کو راولاکوٹ میں روڈوں پر دندناتے بھارتی ایکشن کمیٹی کے دہشتگردوں پر ترس آ رہا ہے وہ صرف ایک بار یہ ویڈیو دیکھ لیں جو کل کے احتجاج کی ہے بھارتی ایکشن کمیٹی کا یہ عمر نزیر کشمیری گروپ کا دہشتگرد سیکیورٹی فورسز پر سیدھے فائر کر رہا ہے اور اسی سے دو پولیس اہلکاروں کی موقع پر شہادت بھی ہوئی تھی
[Those who feel sorry for the terrorists of the Indian Action Committee running amok on the roads in Rawalakot should once watch this video, which is from yesterday’s protest. This terrorist of the Indian Action Committee’s Umar Nazir Kashmiri group is firing directly at the security forces and this caused the martyrdom of two police officers on the spot.]”
The same user also used the hashtag “#فسادی_ایکشن_کمیٹی”, which translates to “#Riotous_Action_Committee”.
Umar Nazir Kashmiri is a core member of the Joint Awami Action Committee.
Unrest, violence in Kashmir
Ahead of the general elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, also known as Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), that were boycotted by the opposition parties, the region erupted in severe unrest and deadly clashes.
The elections were originally scheduled to take place in one round on 27 July but later divided into three phases owing to security concerns. The successive polls were nonetheless marred by sporadic instances of violence.
Security forces imposed a significant crackdown on the protests, led by the JAAC, that were sparked by long-held political and economic grievances.
The JAAC has alleged that at least 31 of its protesters have been killed and 400 injured amid the clashes, Arab News reported. Umar Nazir Kashmiri, a core member of the group, accused the government of opening “fire on unarmed demonstrators” as they marched toward Muzaffarabad, it added.
Since the beginning of the unrest in June, “more than 45 people have been killed and hundreds injured”, according to Al Jazeera.
Read our background on the clashes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir here.
A 29 July report by Dawn quoted AJK Police spokesperson, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Riaz Mughal, as saying, “In 2026 only, 26 of our personnel were martyred, while 157 were seriously injured, and 629 faced minor injuries.” JAAC had snipers amongst them and that almost 70% of the protesters were “criminals”, he alleged.
Rights organisations like Amnesty International and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) reported heavy use of lethal force against demonstrators, alongside communication and Internet blackouts across major areas, such as Mirpur and Rawalakot.
Amnesty also urged the Pakistani government to “lift communications blackout” and “allow media and independent observers into the area” in order to conduct an “independent verification of the full extent of the situation on the ground”.
The UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has called for “prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into all deaths that have occurred due to the unrest, both amongst protesters and members of security forces”, according to spokesperson Jeremy Laurence.
The BBC said there was an atmosphere of fear among the population and that the vehicles and property of the candidates contesting the AJK elections “have been set on fire, while some candidates were subjected to violence”, while attributing the blame to the JAAC.
On the other hand, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar has accused India of providing “funds and instructions” for the protests, The Guardian reported.
According to The Express Tribune, the federal and AJK governments have claimed that militants — especially “Fitna al-Khawarij” — have infiltrated the demonstrations in the region, that weapons were recovered from protesters, and that “they had opened fire on security forces”.
“Fitna al-Khawarij” is a term the government uses to refer to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban.
Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry spoke alongside Tarar during the 28 July press conference, saying that those participating in the demonstrations would not be considered “protesters but rioters” and urging citizens to stay away and safe from the government crackdown.
Chaudhry also promised “ all-out support to [the] AJK government for maintaining peace and order”, according to the state-run Radio Pakistan.
On 30 July, the AJK Assembly adopted a formal resolution calling for the immediate establishment of an independent, impartial Truth Commission to “investigate the recent unrest, examine all deaths, injuries and property losses, and recommend relief and reforms”.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check observed several tell-tale signs of AI-generated content. For example:
- The faces of multiple people in the background are distorted
- The boards of the shops contain illegible text
- The face of the passenger on a passing bike distorts right after he emerges from behind the gun
- One of the shop’s shutters appears to feature Gobi’s Paints’ logo; however, the word “Paints” is replaced with illegible text
- None of the bystanders appears shocked or takes cover
- The two people on a bike move by unscathed and do not appear scared
Deepfake detectors’ results
Soch Fact Check ran the video through multiple deepfake detection tools.
DeepFake-O-Meter — a tool developed by the University at Buffalo’s Media Forensics Lab (UB MDFL) — said the video was likely AI-generated, with “moderate” confidence. According to six of its detectors, the respective probabilities were 100%, 99.4%, 96%, 94.5%, 78.9%, and 58.8%.
Hive Detect’s results were inconclusive. It said the sample was 17% likely to be an AI-generated video, 94.8% likely to have AI-generated speech, 0.1% likely to contain AI-generated music, and 0.4% likely to be a deepfake.
However, at the three-second timestamp, it said the chances of the video being AI-generated were 49.8%, with a 67.6% likelihood of the the source being seedance2, a “unified multimodal audio-video joint generation architecture”.
According to the NVIDIA Synthetic Video Detector, the sample is “synthetic”, with a score of 53.1%, which is “greater than threshold (30%), meaning it’s likely synthetic or AI-generated.”
Undetectable AI, too, revealed that the video was “likely created by AI”, with a 65% confidence.
Soch Fact Check also did not find any verified news reports by reputable media outlets about any such video of a JAAC protester firing at police officers.
Therefore, we conclude that the video is AI-generated.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the video was shared by almost a dozen Facebook users.
It was also posted at least once on Instagram, Threads, and X (formerly Twitter) each.
Conclusion: The video is AI-generated.
Background image in cover photo: RawalakotCommunity
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