Image of provincial chief minister in Pakistan jail is AI creation

The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was detained as Pakistan imposed emergency rule on the province in October 2026, but an image circulating on social media supposedly showing Sohail Afridi praying in a jail cell is an AI fabrication. The image was previously tagged on TikTok as being synthetic, and a detection tool found SynthID watermarks indicating it was AI-generated.