Claim: A video shows Imran Khan’s sons reciting the azaan, the Islamic call to prayer.
Fact: The video is fake. Kasim and Sulaiman Khan did not recite the call to prayer. Results from AI detection tools and a comparison with the original footage indicate that the video was likely created using AI.
A video shared online shows Kasim Khan and Sulaiman Khan reciting the azaan [call to prayer]. It was captioned, “مشن نور میں کپتان کے بیٹے قاسم اور سلیمان بھی شامل | جس ویڈو کا انتظار تھا وہ آ گئی سنیں اور شیئر کریں”
[Translation: Captain’s (Imran Khan’s) sons Qasim and Suleiman are also included in Mission Noor. The video you were waiting for is here. Listen and share.]
The video also contained the following Urdu text: قاسم سليمان مشن نور میں شام؛ ل
اپنے نڈر باپ کی آواز پر قائم اور سلیمان نے لبیک کہا
قاسم اور سلیمان کی آزان]
[Translation: Kasim, Sulaiman are involved in mission Noor
Standing firm on the voice of their fearless father, Sulaiman responded with Labbaik.
The call to prayer of Kasim and Sulaiman]
Imran Khan’s sons’ campaign
In July, Imran Khan’s sons, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, launched a campaign calling for their father’s release from prison. They visited the US, where they met the US envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell and Dr Asif Mahmood of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Earlier, Aleema Khan had also announced that the two brothers would head to Pakistan to join the movement seeking their father’s release.
What is ‘Mission Noor’?
Soch Fact Check did not find any credible news reports about “Mission Noor.” However, in a vlog, journalist Imran Riaz Khan explained that the idea came from Ahmed Khan, an individual based in Canada, who proposed that on Saturday, 20 September, everyone should go to their rooftops and recite the call to prayer. Participants would record themselves and share the videos on social media. Initially, the mission gained little traction, but it later drew support from overseas Pakistanis as well as PTI supporters within the country. Imran Riaz Khan further stated that the purpose of the campaign was to seek divine help against the oppression and tyranny of rulers, whether through natural disasters or the injustices inflicted by what he described as a group of imposed leaders who had committed grave injustices against Pakistanis.
On 20 September, Capital TV shared a compilation of clips showing people reciting the call to prayer, which was titled, “PTI Mission Noor | Exclusive Videos of Azaan Across Pakistan | PTI Workers Azan on Roof | Imran Khan.” However, on 22 September, PTI chairman Barrister Gohar distanced himself from the mission and said that he does not know who started it. Gohar further added that, “there was no announcement from the party platform for it,” according to 24NewsHD TV.
The viral video was likely circulated in the context of Khans’ sons campaign and mission Noor.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check first reverse-searched keyframes of the video and traced them to an interview of Khan’s sons from May 2025. Speaking with Mario Nawfal, they discussed their father’s case and the condition of his prison cell, but did not rise to recite the call to prayer at any point.
Crucially, the video in the claim itself contains clear signs of manipulation. For instance, Sulaiman Khan’s lip movements are out of sync with his voice when he supposedly recites “Allahu Akbar!.”
Therefore, it appeared that the original footage of the sons’ interview with Mario Nawfal was manipulated to create the video of them reciting the azaan. To confirm this, a side-by-side comparison of the matching keyframes from the interview and the viral clip is shown below.
Soch Fact Check then analysed the video using DeepFake-O-Meter, developed by the University at Buffalo’s Media Forensics Lab. From the available detectors, we used three, namely AVAD, AVSRDD, and XCLIP. They revealed that the probability of the video in question being AI-generated was 32.9%,100.0%, and 94.0%, respectively.
We also scanned the audio of the azaan using Resemble Detect, a tool designed for real-time detection of deepfake audio across various media types, which rated the audio as “fake.”
Shaur Azher, an audio engineer, at our sister company Soch Videos, analysed the video. His findings revealed the following:
- Synthetic/Artificial frequencies: Repeating harmonic bands with uniform spacing visible in the spectrogram. These do not follow natural vocal overtone patterns and indicate either pitch-shifting, formant-modulation or synthetic layering.
- No breathing space: Between phrases there are no low-frequency pauses or inhalation noise typical of live human recitation. This is a strong sign of edited or layered material.
- Double/Choir effect (00:20.598): At this timestamp, a second phase-shifted or duplicated voice appears. It produces comb-filtering artefacts consistent with two identical signals slightly delayed – the “choir” effect you noted.
- Splice point (00:29.338): After this point the spectrogram shows a change of noise-floor and harmonic content. This is what a cross-fade or inserted new section looks like in RX.
- Monotone delivery: The pitch trace is unnaturally flat with little melodic contour compared to a typical human call to prayer. This can result from time-stretching, pitch correction, or a synthetic voice.
Azher concluded that “the spectrogram shows clear editing artefacts: duplicated voice layers, abrupt change in background noise, and unnatural harmonic structure.”
Soch Fact Check also reviewed the TikTok account that first shared the claim. Although the username is @Geonewsacc6 and it uses Geo News’ logo as the display, it is not the news organisation’s official account. We examined recent posts and found several AI-generated videos, which can be viewed here and here. This further supports the conclusion that the video in question was most likely created using AI.
Virality
The video was shared here (archive) on Facebook.
It was shared here (archive) on X.
On Instagram, it was shared here (archive).
On TikTok, it was shared here (archive) and here (archive).
Conclusion: The video of Imran Khan’s sons reciting the azaan is fake. Results from AI detection tools and comparison with the original footage suggests that it was likely created using AI.
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Background image in cover photo: Mario Nawfal YouTube
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