Claim: A video circulating online shows politician Hina Parvez Butt in an explicit act.
Fact: The video is doctored, with Butt’s face superimposed onto an unrelated video featuring two unidentified individuals.
A video shared on Facebook shows Hina Parvez Butt with a man, allegedly engaged in an explicit act, accompanied by the text: “حینا پرویز بٹ کی بھی ویڈیو لیک، ن لیگ آہستہ آہستہ رسوائی کی طرف گامزن ✍️💯🤔”
[Translated from Urdu: Hina Parvez Butt’s video has also leaked. PML-N is slowly heading towards disgrace.]
A screenshot of the video was also shared on X with the caption: “سب پھڑے جان گے۔۔۔۔۔۔۔حنا بٹ لگ رہی یہ تو🙄🙄”
[Translated from Punjabi: Everyone will be caught… This looks like Hina Butt.]
The video has since been circulating across various social media platforms garnering significant engagement.
Hina Parvez Butt
Hina Parvez Butt is a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) of Punjab, serving her second consecutive term since 2018. According to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab’s website, Butt has been an active politician and businesswoman, who previously served as the Secretary General of the First Women Parliamentary Caucus of Punjab and currently represents women’s health in the Women Caucus. She has participated in prestigious programs at Harvard Kennedy School as well as Oxford University, and is actively involved with NGOs focusing on the empowerment of women and minorities.
Manipulated videos
In recent months, several female politicians have been targeted with doctored or fake videos designed to cast them in a negative light, affecting members of the current government and the opposition.
Recently, Soch Fact Check debunked a doctored video of Azma Bokhari that went viral, prompting her to approach the Lahore High Court. Additionally, a video of PTI member Sanam Javed was shared online with the false claim that her lawyer embraced her. However, we identified that it was actually her father who embraced her.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched key frames of the video and the image from standalone posts to determine the clip’s source.
Although we were unable to trace the video’s origin, we found it shared on Instagram via several accounts here, here, and here. The video does not feature the MPA but rather an unidentified woman engaged intimately with a man. We reviewed the Instagram accounts and found that similar explicit content was shared.
The original video was also shared here on Facebook.
The video in the claim has been manipulated, as Butt’s facial expressions and movements appear unnatural and robotic. A comparison with the original video makes it evident that the facial movements of the woman in the original video appear more natural. Butt’s face is also clearly superimposed as her head and hairline is blurred, making her face seem unusually detached from the body.
Virality
The video garnered significant engagement on Facebook, collectively receiving over 100,000 likes, 4,000 comments, and 22,000 shares.
It was shared here, here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook.
On X it was shared here (archive).
It was also shared on YouTube here and here.
Conclusion: The video is doctored, with Hina Parvez Butt’s face superimposed onto an unrelated video. The original video was shared across Instagram and Facebook, and features unidentified individuals.
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Background image in cover photo: @hinaparvezbutt
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