Claim: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif bowed down to touch Donald Trump’s feet during his recent meeting with the US president at the Oval Office.
Fact: The viral video is fake and does not depict real events. It was likely created using AI tools.
A video shared online shows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif bowing down to touch US President Donald Trump’s feet while the Field Marshal looks on. It was captioned in Urdu as:
ملاقات کا نچوڑ ( تُسی ساڈے مائی باپ ہو سانُوں عمران خان کولوں بچا لو بدلے وِچ ساڈے کولُوں جو مرضی کروا لو
[Translation: Crux of the meeting – you are like our parent; save us from Imran Khan. In return, you can have us do whatever you want.]
Shehbaz Sharif meets Donald Trump
In September, the US President Donald Trump hosted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the White House along with the army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. Ahead of the meeting, the US president praised the prime minister and the field marshal. He referred to Sharif and Munir as “great leaders,” adding, “In fact, we have a great leader coming, the prime minister of Pakistan, and the Field Marshal.” Trump also described the Field Marshal as a “great guy,” reported TRT World.
Trump was accompanied by US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Dawn reported, citing a press release by the prime minister’s office. The news report added that PM Sharif thanked Trump for “his public endorsement of Pakistan’s role in counterterrorism and stressed the need to further enhance cooperation in security and intelligence,” as the two discussed matters of regional security.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check first reviewed original footage of the meeting shared online. The available evidence did not show the Pakistani prime minister bowing down and touching President Trump’s foot at any point.
Importantly, the clip being fact-checked does not contain the original audio from the meeting; instead it is overlaid with a song, which suggests that the original footage was likely edited. It also shows several signs commonly associated with AI manipulated footage. For instance, the faces of Field Marshal Asim Munir and the US president appear distorted when Sharif bends forward. Importantly, as he moves, Sharif’s face does not resemble his own. In one frame, his hand seems to have six fingers.
One version of the claim shared on Facebook includes a “Made with VideoShow” watermark in the bottom-right corner of the video. VideoShow is a mobile video editing application that offers AI-powered video generation, background removal, filters, music options, etc. This indicated that the viral video was likely edited or created using the app.
Soch Fact Check then examined the video using Deepware Scanner, which scans and detects suspicious content to identify potential synthetic manipulation. The Avartify model, which looks for visual and temporal clues that point to AI face-swapping, reenactment, or synthesis, flagged the clip as 64% suspicious. This model looks for especially those visual and temporal clues that were created using tools like DeepFaceLab, FaceSwap, or Avatarify itself. Therefore, the result suggests that there is a 64% likelihood some facial or motion patterns resembled deepfake characteristics.
We also analysed the video using DeepFake-O-Meter, which runs it through multiple AI-based detection models. We first used AVSRDD (2025). This model checks whether the audio and video match naturally. It analyses how the speech patterns align with facial movements. This model rated the probability of the video being fake at 99.9%, suggesting a very high likelihood of manipulation.
Next, the video was run through the SBI (2022) detection model, which identifies forgery marks by blending real and synthetic images to train its system. It rated the clip at 40.2%, indicating moderate suspicion.
Two other detectors, FTCN (2021) and WAV2LIP-STA (2022), gave lower probabilities of 20.9% and 29.2%. FTCN focuses on frame-by-frame motion inconsistencies, while WAV2LIP-STA is designed to catch lip-sync based deepfakes, where the mouth movements don’t quite match the speech. Since the clip does not contain original dialogue or continuous motion, but instead shows brief, edited movements over a music track, these models detected fewer typical deepfake artifacts. The low scores therefore don’t necessarily mean the video is authentic, but rather that the kinds of cues they analyse, i.e., lip-sync mismatches or motion irregularities, weren’t strongly present in this manipulated clip.
While the four detectors on DeepFake-O-Meter produced varying results overall, the most relevant result for this case is the AVSRDD model’s 99.9% score.
Virality
The video was shared here, here, here, here, here, and here. Archived here, here, here, here, here, and here.
On TikTok, it was shared here (archive) and here (archive).
Conclusion: The viral video showing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif bowing down to touch the US President Trump’s feet is fake. It was likely created using AI tools and does not depict real events.
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