Fact Check: Donkey enters Pakistan Parliament? No, video is AI-generated

Hyderabad: A short video clip is circulating on social media claiming to show a donkey casually walking down the aisle of Pakistan’s National Assembly as lawmakers laugh and react in surprise.

The video has been shared widely, with one Facebook user posting it with the caption, “Donkey entered the Pakistani parliament and created a ruckus.” (Translated from Telugu) (Archive)

Fact Check

NewsMeter found that the claim is false. The viral video is AI-generated and not an actual incident from Pakistan’s Parliament.

A search for credible reports or Parliamentary records found no evidence of any such incident taking place inside Pakistan’s National Assembly. This hinted that the incident never happened.

Analysis of the video

On close analysis, several visual inconsistencies reveal that the clip is synthetic.

The donkey’s movement appears unnaturally smooth and weightless, lacking natural hoof impact and proper shadows on the carpet. In a few frames, the donkey blends incorrectly with surrounding objects, creating minor occlusion errors characteristic of AI-generated visuals.

To further verify these observations, NewsMeter analysed the clip using Hive Moderation and Deepfake-O-Meter; both flagged the video as AI-generated with high confidence scores.

Source of the video

A Google reverse image search of the keyframe of the video led us to the same video on a TikTok account named @arabianspeed1. The video is accessible through a VPN.

The caption of the video was flagged as ‘Contains AI-generated media’, which confirms the video is AI-generated. We also found similar artificially created videos on the profile.

The viral video claiming that a donkey entered Pakistan’s Parliament is not real. It is an AI-generated clip.

Therefore, the claim is false.