Claim: An image shows the bullet-riddled car of a Pakistani-Australian family that became a target of CCD’s firing in Chakwal, Punjab.6
Fact: The image is AI-generated.
On 13 June 2026, a Facebook account named Muhammad Anees shared an image of a bullet-riddled car with a shattered windscreen. The post reads:
“گاڑی کو سامنے سے بھی دیکھ لیں۔ اس میں آسٹریلیا سے آئے میاں بیوی اپنے بچوں کے ساتھ تھے جس پر CCD فورس نے ڈاکو سمجہ کے گولیاں برسائیں۔۔”
[Translation: Look at the car from the front. The husband and wife who came from Australia were in this car with their children that the CCD mistook for robbers.]
Several other Facebook accounts shared the image with a similar caption.
CCD, Punjab firing kills minor
On the night of 10 June 2026, the Crime Control Department in Chakwal, Punjab opened fire on a family’s car, mistaking them for robbers. The firing killed a nine-year-old girl named Hania Ahmed, and injured her father, Adeel Ahmed, and brother, Aafan Ahmed.
Adeel Ahmed is an Australian national who had recently arrived in Pakistan with his wife Sidra Khan and two children. The couple left for Hajj and returned on the morning of 10 June 2026. Sidra Khan’s maternal uncle, Ali Ejaz, told Dawn that the family came to meet him on the same day at his home which is adjacent to CCD’s station.
According to Ejaz’s account quoted in Dawn, as soon as the family stopped their car in front of his house, two robbers arrived on a motorcycle and asked them to hand over all the jewellery and cash they had. During this confrontation, a CCD officer spotted the robbers and opened fire. The robbers then fled the scene and Adeel Ahmed also drove off. The CCD officer, along with his colleagues, mistook Ahmed’s car as belonging to the robbers and opened indiscriminate fire which ended up killing Hania while injuring Ahmed and his son Aafan. His wife Sidra Khan remained unhurt.
The incident has sparked nationwide outrage. A statement by the CCD, Punjab claims that the officer who opened fire on the car has been suspended and booked for the girl’s murder. According to the department’s statement, the officer only retaliated after the suspects opened fire first.
However, in an interview with SBS Urdu, Adeel Ahmed shared that the CCD officer was the one who started firing first. He expressed extreme dissatisfaction with how the case was proceeding, and demanded that CCD release the complete footage from the CCTV cameras placed outside their office.
Fact or Fiction?
First, a reverse-image search of the picture led to social media accounts on X and Instagram making a similar claim. Moreover, news reports on the incident by credible international publications did not include the picture of the family’s car shared in the claim.
Soch Fact Check spoke with Dr Mahmood Ahmed, an advocate of the high court of Pakistan. His doctoral research focused on the admissibility of forensic evidence and its impact on murder and rape investigations in Pakistan. Dr Mahmood analysed the image and pointed out a few discrepancies. He stated:
“The damage pattern visible on the vehicle appears more consistent with extensive fragmentation effects than a typical gunfire incident. The bloodstain location, windscreen damage, and highly uniform distribution of perforations raise questions about whether the image accurately depicts the reported shooting. From a forensic standpoint, the image should not be treated as evidence of the incident without independent verification of its source and authenticity.”
Soch Fact Check then reached out to two reporters in Chakwal named Nazar Hussain, district reporter in Chakwal for Samaa TV and 92 News, and Nabeel Anwar Dhakku, a senior correspondent for Dawn. We asked them if the image under investigation is the actual car from the crime scene. Both responded with pictures of the car below, which is not the same car in the image this article is investigating..
Images shared by reporters Hussain and Dhakku on 26 June 2026
Soch Fact Check also observed that the road sign in the picture, reading ‘CHAKWAL’, had an animated look. We compared it with a video of the road sign available online, on the time stamp of 0:01.
Both the signs, in the image under investigation and the video available online, are written in two languages: English and Urdu. The format of the Urdu text matches, but there is a difference in how the city’s name is written in English: In the image under investigation, Chakwal’s name is written in capital letters (CHAKWAL), whereas the video available online shows the city’s name following the capitalization rule (Chakwal).
Left: Chakwal road sign in the image under investigation, Right: Screenshot of Chakwal road sign available. (Credits: Instagram.com/makvlogger)
Soch Fact Check then observed some visual discrepancies in the image like the animated look of the road sign reading ‘Chakwal’ in the background, and innumerable bullet holes all over the car which are not in consonance of news reports confirming that Hania sustained 10 to 11 gunshot wounds.
We ran the visual through a few AI-detection tools. Hive Moderation’s AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded that the image likely contains AI-generated or deepfake content. It gave the image a rating of 99.9% likelihood of being AI-generated and a 0.1% likelihood of being a deepfake.
Result by Hive Moderation
Image Whisperer, another AI-generated content detection tool, also flagged the image as AI-generated. The tool’s verdict reads, “Strong AI generation signals from forensic analysis.”
Result by Image Whisperer
Soch Fact Check also ran the image through AI or Not, developed by Bioptic, an American tech company founded by former Google product director Andrey Doronichev. It gave a rating of 99% AI and 56% deepfake, stating the image is “likely AI & Deepfake.”
Result by AI or Not
To further confirm the results, we ran the image through a tool designed by OpenAI to check if it was created using the American artificial intelligence company’s tools. It confirmed that the picture was “generated using OpenAI tools,” stating that it “found a SynthID watermark that originated from OpenAI.”
Result by OpenAI
Hence, based on the strong verdicts from AI detection tools, Soch Fact Check confirms that the image is AI-generated.
Virality
Soch Fact Check first came across a viral post on Facebook with as many as 5,200 likes and 1,100 reshares. The image was circulated on the social media platform by other accounts where it garnered 1,700 and 2,200 likes, separately.
The image was also shared by multiple accounts on X and published by a Pakistani news outlet named Suno News.
Conclusion: The image of the bullet-riddled car is AI-generated.
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