New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for Pakistan, its Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar was countered by its own media for misleading the Senate by sharing an AI-generated fake image of The Daily Telegraph front page, praising its Air force.
“British newspaper Daily Telegraph front page has said that Pakistan Air Force is the undisputed king of the skies,” he said amid loud cheers by other Senate members.
Within hours, Pakistan’s prominent newspaper Dawn fact checked this claim, revealing that it stemmed from a fake image doing the rounds on social media since May 10, amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions. “The content was investigated… which found discrepancies in the viral photo and concluded that the information was false,” Dawn reported.
The fabricated front page contained obvious errors like misspellings, clumsy wording, and design flaws.
“Guroor nahi kiya,” Dhar added, while the sharing an AI-generated fake image of a British newspaper front page dated May 10.
“Pakistan Air Force is the undisputed king of the skies,” Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told parliament, quoting a viral fake AI-generated page from The Telegraph.
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— Abdul Wasey Naik (@WaseyNaik) May 15, 2025
The UK newspaper also debunked this claim, confirming no such edition was ever published. The original frontpage of The Daily Telegraph of May 10 had the headline — Navy chief quits ‘over affair with junior’.
PIB Fact Check unit also weighed in, stating that Dar further amplified this false claim during his statement to the Senate on May 15. “By endorsing a completely fabricated image and headline, Pakistan intentionally lent official weight to a piece of digital deception,” it added.
This was part of a broader wave of fake reports, promoting pro-Pakistan propaganda online since India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 and hit terror camps inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK).