Claim: A video shows Hyrbyair Marri admitting that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi funds terrorist activities in Balochistan.
Fact: The video has tell-tale signs of AI manipulation.
On 4 July, X user @War_Analysts posted a video (archive) that purportedly showed Hyrbyair Marri complaining that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stopped funding the efforts aimed at gaining the “freedom” of Balochistan from Pakistan.
Part of the caption reads: “In this video, Harbiyar Marri has complained about the Modi government’s failure to provide funds for carrying out terrorist activities in Balochistan.
This statement openly exposes India’s dirty game and the use of Baloch separatists as pawns to destabilise Pakistan.”
In the footage, Marri can be heard saying:
“Look, let’s face reality. For years, RAW provided us billions of rupees. Yes, billions. They assured me our sole objective was destablising Pakistan. They made me convince young Baloch people that we were fighting for freedom. But truthfully, our purpose was entirely different. But now the situation has drastically changed. Modi is ignoring us.
For the past several months, neither funds nor support have been coming. Perhaps he now wants to discard us. I’ve repeatedly tried contacting them, but no response. Our handlers won’t even take my calls anymore. Where are those promises? Where is that support? I dedicated my entire life to this cause, to destabilise Pakistan. But now the very people who were using us have left us alone.
Young lives lost, families destroyed. And what did we get in return? Absolutely nothing. Modi promised me that he would bring the Baloch cause to the global stage. But look at the reality now. We are labelled as terrorists internationally. In this entire game, Baloch youth suffered, while only India reaped the benefits. I have now realised that clearly that Modi and RAW were never genuinely interested in our cause or our people. They were using us as mere tools. As soon as their interests shifted, they abandoned us. Today, we stand isolated, betrayed and left to face the consequences alone.”
Marri is the founder of the Free Balochistan Movement, a secessionist group calling for the independence of the Baloch nation from Pakistan and Iran. He is also the son of Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, a Baloch nationalist leader who died in Karachi in June 2014.
Hyrbyair Marri has been living in self-exile in London since 2000, where he received political asylum from Britain in 2011 after making the case that his life was in danger in Pakistan as the state was pursuing him on various charges.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check conducted a reverse-image search, analysed the video, and used AI-detection tools, which indicated that the footage was likely created using artificial intelligence.
Although the reverse searches returned limited results, they included an interview with Hyrbyair Marri on YouTube titled “Free Balochistan Movement | Hyrbyair Marri | Q&A”. The video is dated May 2025, but the description states the interview took place in November 2023.
A keyword search based on these details led to the additional videos of the same seminar from November 2023. All of these videos show Marri wearing the same dress as in the footage from the claim. The camera angle, table setting, and wall behind him match the scenes from the clip in the claim. One noticeable difference is the flag on the wall in the latter two videos, which was removed at some point, as indicated by a similar video here.
Notably, the first YouTube video appears to be the exact source of the footage being fact-checked, as the scenes match (shown below):
On the left is a screenshot of the video from the claim, which is identical to the video of the seminar on the right.
Since both videos appear to be identical, Soch Fact Check analysed them frame by frame and found that the video in the claim recycles portions of the original YouTube clip.
The analysis shows that:
- From the start until 0:17, the video in the X post aligns with the YouTube video from 0:04 to 0:22. The hand gestures in both videos are identical.
- At 0:18, the video being fact-checked briefly transitions, for two seconds, to show an image of Sumaiya Qalandrani Baloch, a female suicide bomber from the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a proscribed separatist militant group. At 0:20, the video replays and shows Marri, and from this point until 0:37, the scenes match the YouTube video again, from 0:05 to 0:22.
- The video in the claim shows the Indian Prime Minister at 0:38. It then switches back to showing Marri at 0:39. From this point until 0:52, the footage is again identical to the YouTube clip from 0:05 to 0:16.
- We observed the same pattern in the latter half of the video: from 0:53 to 1:04 and from 1:05 to 1:22, the video in the claim aligns with the YouTube video from 0:05 to 0:16 and 0:05 to 0:22, respectively.
In addition to the above discrepancy, Soch Fact Check identified subtle yet clear differences between the original videos of the seminar and the fake video, suggesting possible AI manipulation. In the former, Marri’s expressions appear natural, smooth, and change seamlessly as he speaks. In contrast, his facial expressions and hand gestures in the latter video are slower, and the graphics also move at a slower pace.
Marri’s voice in the video being fact-checked also shows signs of manipulation. Although his voice closely resembles the original, it sounds somewhat unnatural, rough, and compressed, suggesting the possibility of AI manipulation. Moreover, Marri speaks only in English in the clip circulating online, whereas in the original footage, he seems to be speaking in his native language. This is also consistent with other videos of the same seminar, where he appears to speak in his local language.
Considering all the tell-tale signs of AI manipulation above, a further analysis was conducted by using AI-detection tools. The first is DeepFake-O-Meter, an initiative of the University of Buffalo, which is a tool that detects AI-generated content. We ran the video in the claim through five detection algorithms: AVSRDD (2025), FTCN (2021), LIPINC (2024), WAV2LIP-STA (2022), and XCLIP (2022). These algorithms detect deepfakes by examining lip-sync accuracy and visual-audio consistency to identify discrepancies between video and audio. The results showed probability scores of 100.0%, 45.8%, 98.5%, 96.2%, and 53.2% respectively, strongly suggesting that the suspicious video has been manipulated using AI.
Results from DeepFake-O-Meter, an AI-detection tool.
Soch Fact Check also analysed the video circulating online using Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector, a tool for detecting audio deepfakes. An analysis of various parts of the video, using its Chrome extension, showed an authenticity score of 1/100, which confirms that the “sampled voice is likely a deepfake”.
Results from Hiya DeepFake Voice Detector.
Therefore, Soch Fact Check’s detailed analysis confirms that the video is doctored.
Virality
The X post garnered 30,400 views and received 265 likes.
The fake video also appeared on X here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
On Facebook here (archive), here (archive) and here (archive)
On Instagram here (archive), here (archive), here (archive), here (archive).
Conclusion: The video of Hyrbyair Marri admitting India’s involvement in Balochistan shows clear signs of AI manipulation.
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