Claim: Former premier Imran Khan’s son, Kasim, mentioned he would ask his father to accept Tyrian White as his organic daughter, including that it was “unfair” for her to be “kept out of the loop” concerning household affairs and media appearances.
Fact: The video is manipulated. In the unique interview with Sky News’ Yalda Hakim aired in December 2025, Kasim Khan did not make any such remark.
On 5 and 6 February 2026, a number of social media users shared a clip displaying Kasim Khan, one of many two sons of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan, telling Sky News journalist Yalda Hakim in an interview that it “is high time that our father decides to own Tyrian [White]”, the ex-premier’s allegedly organic daughter (archived here, here, and here, respectively).
In the video, Hakim asks, “Any message that you wanna give to your father?”
The youthful Khan responds by saying: “I believe it is high time that our father decides to own Tyrian [White]. She has been staying with us since childhood. When my mother asked me to come for this interview, we both protested that why is Tyrian being kept out of the loop? She is our sister. Whenever I meet my father, I will ask him to accept her as his daughter. It’s really unfair.”
Captions accompanying the social media posts termed it a “shocking conversation”, alleging that the previous PM’s ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith, “did not allow” White to affix the interview. One consumer went on so as to add that she “wants to cover up Imran Khan’s sins to fulfil the Jewish conspiracy”.
In February 2026, the PTI founder’s sons — Kasim and Sulaiman Khan — advised Reuters that they had not met their father since November 2022 however utilized for visas in January and had been but to get a response.
In response to a query about causes for the delay, Sulaiman mentioned the authorities had been in all probability “worried that if we go and see him it would create more noise”, as effectively as “more attention to his situation”.
Who is Tyrian White?
It has lengthy been claimed that Tyrian White is Imran Khan’s daughter from his relationship with Ana-Luisa White, later recognized as Sita White, within the Nineteen Eighties and a US courtroom ruled the identical as effectively.
After Sita White died in 2004, Goldsmith was named as her guardian. At that point, Khan had said, “If she [Tyrian White] decides that she wishes to live with us in London, then she is absolutely welcome and we will bring her up and act as her guardians forthwith.”
However, he has denied paternity and, in keeping with a 1997 report, when White was alive, Khan issued a press release saying he would welcome his former associate to Pakistan and an “opportunity to present my side of the story in a Pakistani court rather than conducting an undignified trial by media”.
He had added, “I will, of course, be prepared to submit to a blood test in Pakistan and will fully stand by the decision of the competent Pakistani courts.”
In a 2018 interview with journalist Hamid Mir, who requested in regards to the “controversy” about “Sita White’s daughter”, Khan refused to reply with a sure or no and termed it a “non-issue”, saying, “Why should I answer this [question]?”
Claims of ‘death cell’, ‘solitary confinement’
Khan’s sisters — Aleema Khanum, Noreen Niazi, and Dr Uzma Khan — gave interviews to different foreign media outlets in November and December 2025, the place they spoke about being denied the correct to fulfill their brother in jail repeatedly and claimed he was being held in a “death cell”.
The sisters and the PTI’s leaders have additionally alleged repeatedly that the previous premier was “struggling with isolation and psychological strain”, being stored in “solitary confinement” for weeks, and subjected to “mental torture”.
The PTI founder’s sons — Kasim and Sulaiman Khan — have additionally spoken up in regards to the alleged maltreatment, noting that “he’s completely isolated”, allowed solely “20 minutes outside”, and has “no contact with family, no contact with personal physicians”, all a part of what they claimed had been “psychological torture tactics”.
On 12 December 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Dr Alice Jill Edwards, issued a statement calling on Pakistani authorities “to ensure that Khan’s conditions of detention fully comply with international norms and standards”. She repeated claims about his alleged solitary confinement, saying he was “denied adequate medical attention” and “his cell is reportedly under constant camera surveillance”.
In a 17 December 2025 submit on X (previously Twitter), Amnesty International urged Pakistani authorities “to immediately restore Imran Khan’s access to family and legal counsel as per international human rights law”.
“The authorities must ensure that the conditions of detention fully comply with international norms and standards,” it added.
Govt denies allegations
On the opposite hand, authorities authorities have denied accusations about Khan’s jail cell circumstances and violations of his rights.
In an interview, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said Khan consumes chia seeds and oatmeal in breakfast — which “is equal to a four days’ worth of meals for a poor person” — and has entry to treadmill, weights, pantry, kitchen, and a strolling gallery.
“He gets organic chicken… he gives orders [for food], which are presented to him,” Tarar acknowledged. “What kind of solitary confinement is that? These are five-star facilities.”
Tarar has additionally publicly assailed Khan’s sisters for “defaming” Pakistan by talking to Indian media retailers, saying they “should be ashamed”. He requested, “Why are these sisters crying about their brother on Indian and Afghan channels?”
Separately, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s spokesperson for overseas media, Mosharraf Zaidi, additionally denied the claims by the PTI and Khan’s household about his jail circumstances, terming it as “manufactured”. Speaking of UN Special Rapporteur Dr Edwards’ assertion, he mentioned, “I think that these are honest people who are dealing with bad information… They’re consuming misinformation.”
Zaidi additionally claimed that the PTI founder has had 870 visits, as against 112 for each week he’s allowed whereas in jail. “He’s had 137 meetings with his sisters,” he mentioned, including that he has additionally had “451 interviews with his lawyers … in 860 days”.
The spokesperson additional asserted that Dr Faisal Sultan — the particular assistant for well being throughout Khan’s authorities and the CEO of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, which the previous PM established — has seen him in jail as effectively.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check discovered that the visuals are from an nearly half-hour-long interview that Yalda Hakim carried out with Kasim and Sulaiman Khan and that was uploaded on-line on 17 December 2025. However, neither of the previous prime minister’s sons mentioned they might ask their father to “accept” Tyrian White as his daughter in the course of the dialog.
Sound engineer’s forensic evaluation
Soch Fact Check additionally sought a remark from Shaur Azher, a lecturer who teaches sound design and sound recording on the University of Karachi and the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST). He additionally works as an audio engineer at our sister organisation, Soch Videos, and specialises in mixing and mastering audio.
For functions of comparability, Azher has labelled the genuine video as Sample A and the doubtful clip as Sample B.
He mentioned, “Sample B is a classy AI voice clone. While it captures the timbre of each Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, it lacks the natural messiness of the dwell interview setting captured in Sample A.
“The content of Sample B (discussing Tyrian White) uses a script-like structure that is too clean for an extemporaneous interview setting,” he added.
His observations are as follows:
Jitter and shimmer measurement: Jitter (frequency instability) and shimmer (amplitude instability) are the micro imperfections of the human vocal cords.
- Sample A: Shows excessive pure variance. Human speech naturally incorporates stutters, glottal stops, and micro deviations in pitch as the speaker searches for phrases or reacts emotionally.
- Sample B: Exhibits an over-smoothed profile. While the clone makes an attempt to imitate emotion, the jitter values are mathematically common.
Micro-acoustic evaluation:
- Sample A: The SM7B’s [the name of the microphones in front of Khan’s sons] excessive resistance to electromagnetic interference and its inside air suspension shock mount enable for a pure seize of human vocal wire instability. We see pure jitter and shimmer that align with the emotional stress of the interview.
- Sample B: Despite the deep tone, the jitter values are under-modulated. In AI synthesis, the excitation sign (the thrill that simulates vocal cords) is commonly too periodic.
Breath signature and room tone comparability:
- Sample A: Breaths happen in response to cognitive load (considering earlier than talking) and are sometimes accompanied by moist mouth sounds (clicks) which might be inconsistent in quantity.
- Sample B: Breaths are positioned at logical grammatical breaks however lack the high-frequency “hiss” and pure decay present in the true setting.
- Room tone: Sample B has a posh noise ground consisting of low-frequency hums and pure reverb. Sample A has a sterile background; the silence between phrases is mathematically zeroed or changed by a uniform consolation noise, a trademark of neural vocoders.
Spectral signature and microphone mapping: The frequency response of those two mics creates distinct “spectral fingerprints.”
- Sample A:
- SM7B: Shows a flat response from 50 hertz (Hz) until 1 OkHz with a clean roll-off. The “body” of their voices is wealthy and natural.
- MV7 [the name of the microphones in front of Hakim]: Displays a presence increase within the 2-6 OkHz vary. Her voice has a sharper “edge” in comparison with the boys, which is the signature of the MV7’s Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Near mode.
- Sample B: The “Tyrian” dialogue lacks the XLR wire-noise ground anticipated from an SM7B. Instead, there’s a spectral tilt the place the excessive frequencies are artificially attenuated to cover “robotic” hiss, however it creates a “muffled” impact that doesn’t match the clear, skilled proximity of an actual SM7B.
Phase coherence and spectral deviations (MFCC): Using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), we will see how the sound is structured throughout frequencies.
- Sample A: Shows chaotic high-frequency vitality throughout fricatives (the S, F, Th sounds)
- Sample B: Shows spectral mirroring or robotic artifacts within the 8 until 12 OkHz vary. This metallic sheen is a byproduct of the neural synthesis course of used to reconstruct the waveform from a spectrogram.
Deepfake detections instruments
We then ran the video in Deepfake-O-Meter, of which we used six detectors; the probability of the clip being manipulated utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments is 53.9%, 92.1%, 45.2%, 42.2%, 82.6%, and 46.8%, respectively.
GODDS’ evaluation
We additionally examined the video within the Global Online Deepfake Detection System (GODDS), a software developed by Northwestern University’s Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) that makes use of a mix of varied fashions together with human evaluation to offer a holistic abstract of the outcomes.
GODDS used 22 deepfake detection algorithms for the visible content material and 70 for the audio part. Two skilled analysts additionally examined the clip.
All predictive fashions for the visible and audio content material mentioned the video “is likely to be fake”:
- The video is prone to be faux with a likelihood above 0.5, in keeping with 10 of the 22 predictive fashions; it’s prone to be faux with a likelihood beneath 0.5, in keeping with the 12 different predictive fashions.
- The audio is prone to be faux with a likelihood above 0.5, in keeping with 25 of the 70 predictive fashions; it’s prone to be faux with a likelihood beneath 0.5, in keeping with the 45 remaining predictive fashions.
According to the human analysts, the video incorporates “several indicators” that present it might be digitally manipulated through AI.
The analysts recognized a number of timestamps the place AI manipulation seems within the video. For instance, “As the second subject speaks, his teeth seem to change shape (e.g., 0:08, 0:13, etc.)” and “frequently seem to blur together, despite an otherwise clear appearance (e.g., 0:07, 0:11, 0:15, 0:19, 0:21, etc.)”.
“Occasionally, the microphone indents as the second subject’s face moves closer or the boundaries of the face overlap with the microphone’s shape, presenting unnatural (e.g., 0:07, 0:13-0:14, 0:16, 0:22, etc.),” they added.
“At 0:04, the second subject’s tongue overlaps with his teeth, disrupting the boundary of the teeth’s outline. Similarly, at 0:17, the second subject’s teeth overlap with his lips, appearing unnatural.”
The voices of Hakim and Kasim Khan “seem to lack natural tonal and cadence variations characteristic of human voices”, the GODDS analysts additionally famous, including that since there aren’t any respected stories in regards to the claims within the clip and “given the celebrity-like status of both subjects, it is likely that there would be greater media coverage were this video authentic”.
This, they added, may very well be “part of a larger pattern of misinformation”.
Soch Fact Check, due to this fact, concludes that the viral clip in query is manipulated utilizing AI instruments.
Virality
Soch Fact Check discovered the video posted here, here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook.
It was additionally shared here and here on Instagram, here on Threads, and here on X.
Conclusion: The video is manipulated. In the unique interview with Sky News’ Yalda Hakim aired in December 2025, Kasim Khan did not make such a remark.
Background picture in cowl picture: @Tyriankwhite
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