Claim: A post suggests Kasim and Sulaiman Khan have arrived in Pakistan.
Fact: The image of Khan’s sons is AI-generated and the video in the background shows a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rally held in Gujranwala in 2022.
On 12 July 2025, a Facebook user posted an image of Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan’s sons, Kasim and Sulaiman, with a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft in the background. It is accompanied by a video of a large rally of people.
The post implies that his sons were en route to or had arrived at some destination in Pakistan and that a large number of people, shown in the video, had gathered to welcome them.
Imran Khan remains imprisoned since August 2023 due to a slew of cases accusing him of harboring undeclared assets, breaching state secrets, contracting an allegedly unlawful marriage, and financial fraud, among others.
On 13 May 2025, Kasim and Sulaiman Khan were interviewed by X (formerly Twitter) influencer Mario Nawfal. In the interview, the brothers shed light on their father’s experiences in jail and the difficulties in contacting him across continents, amongst other things.
On 8 July, Aleema Khan (the former premier’s sister) spoke to reporters outside Adiala Jail—where Imran Khan is currently imprisoned—and stated that Khan would lead a campaign from behind bars against the controversial 26th Constitutional Amendment. She added that Khan’s sons would also join the campaign.
In an interview with ARY News that night, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah claimed that if Imran Khan’s sons were to arrive in the country and take part in the campaign, they would be arrested. The embedded Urdu text in the claim likely refers to this threat by Sanaullah.
Two days later, Jemima Goldsmith—Imran Khan’s ex-wife and mother to Kasim and Sulaiman Khan—posted a photo on X that termed Sanaullah’s threat “a personal vendetta”.
Fact or Fiction?
We first conducted a Google search for “Kasim Sulaiman Khan arrive Pakistan” but came across no credible news reports that showed they had landed in the country.
Examining the image in the claim, we noticed that the brothers were wearing attire that looked exactly the same. This was different from how they usually appeared in the media in differing outfits. Their arms were also unusually toned in the image and the hands of welcomers on the extreme right side appeared distorted. Suspecting that the image was generated using AI, we ran it through DeepFake-O-Meter, which is a tool developed by the Media Forensics Lab at the University of Buffalo.
6 out of the 12 algorithms run on the image gave an AI-generated likelihood of above 97%. Some of these are shown below:
The SIA (2022) and IID (2023) algorithms—which test if an image is fully synthesised or not—also reported AI-generated likelihoods of 78.6% and 80.1%, respectively.
The results of the algorithms, coupled with the fact that there were no credible news reports of Khan’s sons arriving in Pakistan, led Soch Fact Check to conclude that the post was false.
Regarding the video in the claim, we realized it was a clip we had previously fact-checked in March 2023, when it was being shared as a “public rally in Lahore during Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) election campaign for the Punjab elections”. However, our investigation had shown it was from November 2022 and showed Imran Khan’s “Azadi March” in Gujranwala.
Virality
The post on Facebook has amassed 254 K views.
On Instagram, it was shared here, here, and here.
On TikTok, it was shared here, here, and here.
On YouTube, it was shared here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Conclusion: The image of Kasim and Sulaiman Khan with a PIA aircraft in the background is AI-generated, and the video accompanying it shows a PTI rally in Gujranwala that took place in 2022.
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Background image in cover photo: Aaj News
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