Claim: Former premier Imran Khan’s son, Kasim, said he would ask his father to accept Tyrian White as his biological daughter, adding that it was “unfair” for her to be “kept out of the loop” regarding family affairs and media appearances.
Fact: The video is manipulated. In the original interview with Sky News’ Yalda Hakim aired in December 2025, Kasim Khan did not make any such comment.
On 5 and 6 February 2026, multiple social media users shared a clip showing Kasim Khan, one of the 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 biological daughter (archived here, here, and here, respectively).
In the video, Hakim asks, “Any message that you wanna give to your father?”
The younger 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 former PM’s ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith, “did not allow” White to join the interview. One user went on 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 — told Reuters they had not met their father since November 2022 but applied for visas in January and were yet to get a response.
In response to a question about reasons for the delay, Sulaiman said the authorities were probably “worried that if we go and see him it would create more noise”, as well as “more attention to his situation”.
Who is Tyrian White?
It has long been claimed that Tyrian White is Imran Khan’s daughter from his relationship with Ana-Luisa White, later known as Sita White, in the 1980s and a US court ruled the same as well.
After Sita White died in 2004, Goldsmith was named as her guardian. At that time, 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, according to a 1997 report, when White was alive, Khan issued a statement saying he would welcome his former partner 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 asked about the “controversy” about “Sita White’s daughter”, Khan refused to answer with a yes 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, where they spoke about being denied the right to meet their brother in jail repeatedly and claimed he was being held in a “death cell”.
The sisters and the PTI’s leaders have also alleged time and again that the former premier was “struggling with isolation and psychological strain”, being kept in “solitary confinement” for weeks, and subjected to “mental torture”.
The PTI founder’s sons — Kasim and Sulaiman Khan — have also spoken up about the alleged maltreatment, noting that “he’s completely isolated”, allowed only “20 minutes outside”, and has “no contact with family, no contact with personal physicians”, all part of what they claimed were “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 post on X (formerly 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 other hand, government authorities have denied accusations about Khan’s jail cell conditions 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 access to treadmill, weights, pantry, kitchen, and a walking gallery.
“He gets organic chicken… he gives orders [for food], which are presented to him,” Tarar stated. “What kind of solitary confinement is that? These are five-star facilities.”
Tarar has also publicly assailed Khan’s sisters for “defaming” Pakistan by speaking to Indian media outlets, saying they “should be ashamed”. He asked, “Why are these sisters crying about their brother on Indian and Afghan channels?”
Separately, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s spokesperson for foreign media, Mosharraf Zaidi, also denied the claims by the PTI and Khan’s family about his jail conditions, terming it as “manufactured”. Speaking of UN Special Rapporteur Dr Edwards’ statement, he said, “I think that these are honest people who are dealing with bad information… They’re consuming misinformation.”
Zaidi also claimed that the PTI founder has had 870 visits, as opposed to 112 for every week he’s allowed while in prison. “He’s had 137 meetings with his sisters,” he said, adding that he has also had “451 interviews with his lawyers … in 860 days”.
The spokesperson further asserted that Dr Faisal Sultan — the special assistant for health during Khan’s government and the CEO of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, which the former PM established — has seen him in jail as well.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check found that the visuals are from an almost half-hour-long interview that Yalda Hakim conducted with Kasim and Sulaiman Khan and that was uploaded online on 17 December 2025. However, neither of the former prime minister’s sons said they would ask their father to “accept” Tyrian White as his daughter during the conversation.
Sound engineer’s forensic analysis
Soch Fact Check also sought a comment from Shaur Azher, a lecturer who teaches sound design and sound recording at the University of Karachi and the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST). He also works as an audio engineer at our sister organisation, Soch Videos, and specialises in mixing and mastering audio.
For purposes of comparison, Azher has labelled the authentic video as Sample A and the dubious clip as Sample B.
He said, “Sample B is a sophisticated AI voice clone. While it captures the timbre of both Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, it lacks the organic messiness of the live interview environment 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 high natural variance. Human speech naturally contains stutters, glottal stops, and micro deviations in pitch as the speaker searches for words or reacts emotionally.
- Sample B: Exhibits an over-smoothed profile. While the clone attempts to mimic emotion, the jitter values are mathematically regular.
Micro-acoustic analysis:
- Sample A: The SM7B’s [the name of the microphones in front of Khan’s sons] high resistance to electromagnetic interference and its internal air suspension shock mount allow for a pure capture of human vocal cord instability. We see natural 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 signal (the buzz that simulates vocal cords) is often too periodic.
Breath signature and room tone comparison:
- Sample A: Breaths occur in response to cognitive load (thinking before speaking) and are often accompanied by wet mouth sounds (clicks) that are inconsistent in volume.
- Sample B: Breaths are placed at logical grammatical breaks but lack the high-frequency “hiss” and natural decay found in the real environment.
- Room tone: Sample B has a complex noise floor consisting of low-frequency hums and natural reverb. Sample A has a sterile background; the silence between words is mathematically zeroed or replaced by a uniform comfort noise, a hallmark of neural vocoders.
Spectral signature and microphone mapping: The frequency response of these two mics creates distinct “spectral fingerprints.”
- Sample A:
- SM7B: Shows a flat response from 50 hertz (Hz) till 1 KHz with a smooth roll-off. The “body” of their voices is rich and organic.
- MV7 [the name of the microphones in front of Hakim]: Displays a presence boost in the 2-6 KHz range. Her voice has a sharper “edge” compared to 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 floor expected from an SM7B. Instead, there is a spectral tilt where the high frequencies are artificially attenuated to hide “robotic” hiss, but it creates a “muffled” effect that doesn’t match the clean, professional proximity of a real SM7B.
Phase coherence and spectral deviations (MFCC): Using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), we can see how the sound is structured across frequencies.
- Sample A: Shows chaotic high-frequency energy during fricatives (the S, F, Th sounds)
- Sample B: Shows spectral mirroring or robotic artifacts in the 8 till 12 KHz range. This metallic sheen is a byproduct of the neural synthesis process used to reconstruct the waveform from a spectrogram.
Deepfake detections tools
We then ran the video in Deepfake-O-Meter, of which we used six detectors; the likelihood of the clip being manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools is 53.9%, 92.1%, 45.2%, 42.2%, 82.6%, and 46.8%, respectively.
GODDS’ analysis
We also tested the video in the Global Online Deepfake Detection System (GODDS), a tool developed by Northwestern University’s Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) that uses a combination of various models along with human analysis to provide a holistic summary of the results.
GODDS used 22 deepfake detection algorithms for the visual content and 70 for the audio component. Two trained analysts also examined the clip.
All predictive models for the visual and audio content said the video “is likely to be fake”:
- The video is likely to be fake with a probability above 0.5, according to 10 of the 22 predictive models; it is likely to be fake with a probability below 0.5, according to the 12 other predictive models.
- The audio is likely to be fake with a probability above 0.5, according to 25 of the 70 predictive models; it is likely to be fake with a probability below 0.5, according to the 45 remaining predictive models.
According to the human analysts, the video contains “several indicators” that show it may be digitally manipulated via AI.
The analysts identified multiple timestamps where AI manipulation appears in the video. For example, “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 also noted, adding that since there are no reputable reports about the claims in 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, could be “part of a larger pattern of misinformation”.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the viral clip in question is manipulated using AI tools.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the video posted here, here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook.
It was also shared here and here on Instagram, here on Threads, and here on X.
Conclusion: The video is manipulated. In the original interview with Sky News’ Yalda Hakim aired in December 2025, Kasim Khan did not make such a comment.
Background image in cover photo: @Tyriankwhite
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