Viral video of partygoers arrested from rave in Punjab’s Kasur

Rating Justification

The iVerify Pakistan team investigated this content and determined that it is misleading.

To reach this conclusion, iVerify Pakistan conducted a keyword search to review news stories on the incident from credible media outlets.

Posts from Indian accounts on social media platform X on July 15, 2025, shared a video, saying it showed partygoers arrested from a rave in Punjab’s Kasur. However, the incident is old and occurred in April.

HOW IT STARTED

On July 15, an Indian propaganda account posted a video on X showing multiple men and women lined up as the person filming asked them to look into the camera.

The caption of the post said: “Pakistan: 30 boys and 25 girls caught at a rave and sex party in Kasur farmhouse were taken to the Mustafabad police station. All of them were children of Pakistan Army officers. The SHO (station house officer) who takes action has been suspended.”

The post did not mention the date or any other details of when the alleged incident occurred.

The post was viewed by 9.7 million users and reshared 6,800 times.

Similar claims were shared here, here and here, racking up 1.2m, 215,000, and 94,700 views respectively.

Other shares of the same claim can be found here, here, here, here, here and here.

METHODOLOGY

A fact-check was initiated to determine the veracity of the claim due to its high virality.

A keyword search for “Kasur” and “farmhouse raid” yielded the same claim shared by the X user on April 8, 2025, thus confirming the viral clip was not recent.

The video was previously fact-checked as well on April 7 claims circulated that the farmhouse was owned by PTI Secretary Information Sheikh Waqas Akram, which was not the case.

As per a news report by English media outlet Dawn dated April 7, the police had raided a farmhouse near Pakki Havali village on April 4, following a “tip-off” about an alleged “dance party” being held there, arresting 55 persons and putting them behind bars.

A case was lodged against the partygoers but they were discharged from it on a court’s orders and two policemen were suspended for releasing a video of the suspects in custody.

The news report, and others from other credible media outlets, had made no mention of the partygoers being associated with military families.

FACT-CHECK STATUS: MISLEADING

The claim that a viral video shows partygoers arrested from a farmhouse rave in Kasur is misleading.

The incident is not a recent one and occurred back in April.

Evidence and References

April 7, 2025, iVerify Pakistan fact-check report:
https://iverifypakistan.com/farmhouse-raided-by-kasur-police-over-dance-party-is-not-owned-by-ptis-sheikh-waqas-akram/

April 7, 2025, Dawn news report:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1902606