Claim: A video shows Pakistan Army officers beating a woman in her home.
Fact: The video has been misrepresented. The incident, which took place in August 2025, involved Punjab Police officers, not Pakistan Army soldiers.
On 8 July 2026, multiple Facebook pages and users shared a video showing officers beating a woman in her home, while claiming it shows Pakistan Army soldiers.
All of the aforementioned posts — which were apparently shared by supporters of the jailed former Prime Minister and founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, according to information available on their profiles — are captioned as follows:
“کوئی پوچھے تو کہنا کہ عاصم منیر آیا تھا اور یہ افواج پاکستان کا ویژن تھا
[If anyone asks, say that Asim Munir came here and that this was the vision of the Pakistani Army.]”
Screenshot of the viral claim
The caption refers to Field Marshal Asim Munir, who is Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Chief of Defence Forces (CDS).
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched keyframes from the viral video and found two posts from August 2025 that match.
According to the posts, the video shows Punjab Police officers beating up a woman in Pakpattan to evict her from her home.
High-ranking officials took notice of the incident after the clip surfaced online, the posts added.
Using this information, we searched for news reports and found two published by the Urdu-language websites of Dawn News and Samaa TV on 7 August 2025.
According to the Dawn News report, Pakpattan District Police Officer (DPO) Javed Iqbal took notice of the incident and the police officer involved in the physical assault — identified as Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Malik Ejaz — was suspended and arrested after a case was filed against him.
ASI Ejaz, who was stationed at the Faridkot Chowki, had gone to the woman’s home to forcefully evict her, the publication added.
Samaa TV reported that a lady police officer was also seen assisting ASI Ejaz and that DPO Iqbal said the protection of women is “our top priority” under Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s vision.
The publication also embedded an X (formerly Twitter) post by Punjab Police that includes a picture of the arrested officer behind bars.
Therefore, Soch Fact Check concludes that the video shows Punjab Police officers, not Pakistan Army soldiers.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the video misrepresented in multiple posts on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and X.
One X post in particular gained over 185,400 views.
Conclusion: The video has been misrepresented. The incident, which took place in August 2025, involved Punjab Police officers, not Pakistan Army soldiers.
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