Claim: At a protest rally in Peshawar this month, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi responded to DG ISPR’s recent press conference, using derogatory language.
Fact: An AI-generated deepfake audio was likely overlaid onto footage from the KP Chief Minister’s address in Peshawar earlier this month.
A video of Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi was shared online with the following caption: “ڈی جی آئ ایس پی آر صاحب تم نے عمران خان کو کتا بولا کتا تو ایک معصوم جانور ہے ہم عشقِ عمران والے ہیں محبوب کی گلی کا کتا بھی ہمیں اپنے ماں باپ سے زیادہ عزیز ہوتا ہے 👈وزیر اعلیٰ خیبرپختونخواہ سہیل آفریدی”
[Translation: DG ISPR, you called Imran Khan a dog. A dog is an innocent animal. We, who love Imran, consider even the street dog of our beloved more precious than our own parents.
👈 Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sohail Afridi]
In the clip, Afridi says:
“ISPR sahab tum ne Imran Khan ko kutta bola. Kutta tou aik masoom jaanwar hai. Imran Khan ke liye tou meri jaan bhi qurbaan hai. Hum ishq e Imran walay hain. Mehboob ki gali ka kutta bhi humein apnay maa baap se ziada aziz hota hai. Tum meray leader ko kutta bolo; hum ussay mazeed mohabbat karein ge.”
[Translation: ISPR sir, you called Imran Khan a dog. A dog is an innocent creature. I would sacrifice my life for Imran Khan. We are lovers of Imran. Even a dog from the beloved’s street is dearer to us than our parents. You call my leader a dog; we will only love him more.]
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check conducted a reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video to trace the original footage and understand the context of Afridi’s remarks. We located the full video on Imran Khan’s official YouTube channel, posted on 7 December under the title “🔴 CM KP Sohail Afridi Powerful Address | PTI Powershow in Peshawar.” After reviewing the complete footage, we did not find any instance of Afridi making any of the statements heard in the viral clip.
At 11:00, he refers to the DG ISPR’s press conference from 5 December. He says that the DG uses inappropriate words about him, but as a Pashtun from a tribal area he was not raised to use abusive language. His parents taught him to love the country and its institutions. He added, “I will only say this: there should be a difference between a fake senator and the DG of an institution. You are neither a fake senator nor a representative of any political party; you are the DG of a strong institution, so this should be kept in mind.”
At 13:10, he speaks about Imran Khan. He questions why his full-name isn’t taken publicly, and then goes on to praise Khan, and expresses his devotion to him.
However, he never mentions that Imran Khan was called a “dog” , and he also does not say “you call my leader a dog; we will only love him more”, as the viral posts claimed. This led us to question the authenticity of the viral clip, and, therefore, we investigated it through a combination of expert analysis and AI-detection tools:
Sound Expert Analysis
Shaur Azher, an audio engineer at our sister company Soch Videos, analysed the viral clip and the original footage. His analysis is as follows:
A – Original Recording (Spectrogram 1)
B – Suspected Deepfake/Manipulated Recording (Spectrogram 2)
Frequency analysis (Low-end signature)
Spectrogram A: Authentic recording
Displays natural low-frequency variability beginning around 250 Hz and extending downward, consistent with:
- Real vocal fold vibrations
- Microphone proximity effects
- Natural body resonance
Spectrogram B: Suspected deepfake
Shows synthetic harmonic artifacts continuously spanning 20 Hz to ~1200 Hz, a pattern characteristic of:
- AI vocoders
- Parametric speech synthesis systems
- Noise-floor padding used to emulate realism
Compression and energy distribution
Spectrogram B has:
- Overly compressed dynamics, flattening the waveform.
- Lack of micro-variations (microdynamics) present in real speech.
- Even energy distribution across phonemes, unlike natural speech where plosives, breaths, and sibilance vary significantly.
These are consistent with synthetic resampling.
High-frequency cutoff (Low-pass filtering)
A: Authentic recording
Frequencies extend cleanly to 15,000 Hz, consistent with:
- Consumer-grade microphones
- Outdoor environments
- Uncompressed or lightly compressed audio
B: Suspected deepfake
Exhibits a hard low-pass cutoff around 8,000 Hz, with some peaks reaching only 10–12 kHz, typically caused by:
- AI voice synthesis models with limited spectral resolution
- Compression from text-to-speech generation
- Intentional filtering to mask synthesis artifacts
Reverberation and environmental modeling
A: Authentic
- Displays natural, minimal reverb, consistent with an open ground / outdoor setting.
- Reflections decay quickly and are irregular, as expected outdoors.
B: Suspected deepfake
Contains unnatural, exaggerated artificial room reverb, which is inconsistent with:
- An outdoor location
- Physical spaces visible in the accompanying video
Reverb tails appear uniform and algorithmic rather than environmentally reactive.
Articulation artifacts (Lip sync analysis)
Based on visual review:
- Lip movement appears mechanically synced, not organically timed.
- Teeth appear to replace or overlap with lip textures, indicating:
- Frame interpolation errors
- AI-generated video mouth-region synthesis
Harmonic structure and formant behavior
A: 1. Harmonic overtones display irregularity consistent with real human vocal cords.
B: 2. Exhibits uniform harmonic spacing—a tell-tale sign of:
- Neural vocoders (WaveNet-style)
- Autoencoders used in deepfake speech
Formants appear “locked,” not dynamically shifting, which is not physiologically possible in real speech.
Azher concluded that B (viral clip) is not an authentic recording. It is a manipulated video and exhibits multiple characteristics consistent with AI-generated deepfake audio, he added.
AI Detection Tools:
Soch Fact Check ran the video through Deepware Scanner, an AI-based tool that detects manipulated or synthetic media, particularly deepfakes. It uses multiple detection models to analyse visual and audio cues that may indicate tampering. The results were as follows:
Deepware Scanner results
Out of the four models, the Seferbekov model indicated a high likelihood of tampering. This model examines frame-level anomalies, especially in facial texture, lighting, and blending artifacts. This model rated the clip as 91% (deepfake detected), strongly indicating the video is a deepfake.
We also tested the audio using Resemble Detect, a tool designed for real-time detection of deepfake audio across various media types. It also rated the audio as “Fake.” The result can be viewed here.
Based on Azher’s analysis and the results from deepfake detection tools, Soch Fact Check concludes that an AI-generated deepfake audio was likely overlaid onto original footage of the KP Chief Minister’s speech.
DG ISPR’s press conference
On 5 December 2025, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry held a press conference. He initially spoke about a “creeping national security threat” that had become necessary for the military to address. “That threat emanates from a delusional mindset of a delusional person who has become captive to his own ego, thinking that his wishes are bigger than those of the state of Pakistan,” Lt Gen Chaudhry said, in an apparent reference to incarcerated PTI founder, Imran Khan, according to Dawn.
He added that it would be “a bit strange to see it coming from me, but the narrative that person is pushing is no more about politics now but has become a matter of national security.” According to DG ISPR, it was “very important” for the military’s media wing to clarify, remove all ambiguities and doubts, and say what needs to be said. “We need to understand how this narrative is working, and unfortunately, how it is working in deep collusion with external actors.”
The DG ISPR accused Imran Khan of deliberately attacking the military’s credibility, creating rifts between the public and the army, and spreading a harmful narrative against state institutions. He cited examples such as urging remittance stoppages, writing to the IMF, promoting civil disobedience, and encouraging followers to target army leadership. Lt Gen Chaudhary claimed Khan’s rhetoric benefits hostile foreign actors and warned that political manipulation against the military would no longer be tolerated.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister Sohail Afridi responded to DG ISPR’s press conference during a protest rally in Peshawar on 7 December. A resolution was passed during the rally. It stated, “We, the people of Pakistan, consider Imran Khan a national hero and the elected and genuine prime minister of Pakistan, who was elected by the people on February 8, 2024. We categorically reject that he or his associates are in any way a threat to national security.”
Another resolution, moved by PTI MNA Sher Ali Arbab, stated that the party recorded its strong protest against the recent remarks against Khan. It said that such a language against a political leader was “against the principles of civil supremacy of Quaid-i-Azam”, reported Dawn. The PTI also condemned how those with dissenting political opinions were called “a growing threat to national security”. Their statement came in reference to a press conference held by DG ISPR on 5 December.
Virality
The claim was shared here, here, here, and here on Facebook. Archived here, here, here, and here.
On Instagram, it was shared here (archive).
It was shared here (archive) and here (archive) on X.
On Threads, it was shared here (archive) and here (archive).
Conclusion: AI-generated deepfake audio was likely overlaid onto footage of the KP Chief Minister’s address in Peshawar this month. At no point does the original footage show Afridi saying, “ISPR sir, you called Imran Khan a dog. A dog is an innocent creature. I would sacrifice my life for Imran Khan. We are lovers of Imran. Even a dog from the beloved’s street is dearer to us than our parents. You call my leader a dog; we will only love him more.”
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