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 […]
Claim: Three videos show Pakistani soldiers criticising the armed forces’ actions, as well as Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir’s allegedly authoritarian leadership. The first shows an officer telling another that there was a need to take “a decisive step”. Two other clips depict senior officers sitting among colleagues while speaking on phone and lamenting the […]
Claim: A clip shows the exact moment a flash flood hit a mountain-side village in Swat and destroyed multiple houses in August 2025. Fact: The clip is synthetically generated, likely using AI tools. On 18 August 2025, TikTok user @rababskills posted (archive) a video they claimed shows floodwater thundering down a mountain in Swat before […]
Claim: A video shows a mass funeral in Afghanistan following the recent earthquakes in the northeastern areas of the country. Fact: The video is AI-generated, and previously circulated online in context of the deadly floods in Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year. Following an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, a video was shared online claiming to show […]
Claim: A video shows a cloud burst amid the ongoing monsoon season and dangerous floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Fact: The video is likely AI-generated and appeared online as early as December 2024 in an entirely different context. Amid the recent deadly floods and heavy rainfall in Pakistan’s northern areas, a video was shared online containing […]
Claim: Dr Adeeb Rizvi has advised people against taking medication for blood pressure issues and undergoing medical procedures such as surgeries. Instead, he promoted a natural recipe of his own, while claiming the success and effectiveness of the said cure in an audio message. Fact: The audio is fake and wrongly attributed to Dr Rizvi. […]
Claim: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has issued a statement titled “Bajaur clashes: losses of the mujahideen and an appeal to the public,” in which it admits losses and appeals to locals to provide its fighters a safe passage. Fact: The statement is not authentic and was likely created using Meta AI. On 29 July 2025, […]
Claim: A live news broadcast shows a donkey-cart slipping on the road amid heavy rainfall in Dera Ghazi Khan. Fact: The video is AI-generated. A video shared on Facebook begins with a reporter saying:, “Nazreen iss waqt mein Dera Ghazi Khan ke ilaqay se bara he raast report kar rahi hoon, yahan pe bohat tez […]
Claim: A viral video of a broadcast news report from Gujranwala shows a motorcyclist slipping on the road. Fact: The absence of background noise from the environment, verbal inaccuracies, and the reporter’s lack of a reaction to the accident suggest that the video is AI-generated. A video was shared on Facebook with the caption: “گوجرانوالہ […]
Claim: Multiple videos of Elon Musk show him talking about Pakistan and India days after the two countries engaged in a military conflict in May 2025. Fact: None of the videos are authentic as footage from Musk’s previous appearances has been superimposed with doctored audio to create a nationalistic narrative through deepfake content. The manipulation […]
Claim: Multiple videos circulating online show the final moments of a family that recently drowned in the Swat River. One video shows the family stranded on the river bank. A separate video shows a survivor speaking to a reporter. Fact: The videos do not depict real-world events. Soch Fact Check’s independent analysis strongly suggests that […]
Claim: Multiple videos circulating online show Israeli citizens in distress following Iranian strikes in different parts of the country. Video 1: A female reporter is seen standing amid a crowd with a microphone. While her words are unintelligible, an elderly man responds, “Muslims, please forgive us.” The clip then cuts to another scene where a […]