Claim: A video shows Pakistan Army soldiers forcibly dragging a woman.
Fact: The video is AI-generated.
A video shared on X (archive) purported to show Pakistan Army soldiers forcibly removing a woman. The post included a claim in Pashto, with an English translation visible in the screenshot below:
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check’s analysis reveals that the footage is AI-generated.
At the video’s opening, the soldiers’ faces, particularly their eyes, display blurring, hollowness, and distortion, characteristic indicators of AI generation that reflect the technology’s inability to accurately render authentic human features (as shown below):
The soldiers’ faces in this screengrab are blurred and distorted.
Further examination of the name tag and Pakistan Army insignia on the uniform reveals nonsensical, garbled text, which is another hallmark of AI-generated content that confirms the video is fake.
Garbled text on a soldier’s uniform is a sign that it is AI-generated.
Soch Fact Check also used AI detection tools for further analysis. One such tool, Zhuque AI Detection Assistant, yielded a probability of 99.98%, which means that the clip is “likely AI-generated”.
Zhuque AI Detection Assistant results.
Deepfake-O-Meter, an initiative of the University at Buffalo, also uses various detection algorithms. In this case, 7 out of 12 algorithms gave percentages above 50%, confirming that the clip was generated using AI.
Results from Deepfake-O-Meter.
Soch Fact Check therefore confirms that the clip is AI-generated.
Virality
The X post garnered 197,600 views and received 351 likes.
It also appeared on X here, here, here.
Conclusion: This video, purportedly showing Pakistan Army soldiers dragging a woman, is AI-generated.
Background image in cover photo: soldiers.pk
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