Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tried to mark what he called the “darkest day in the history of Kashmir” and ended up becoming the punchline of the day instead. His long, dramatic post on X not only got slammed for historical inaccuracy but was also flagged for being 73 percent written by generative AI. For a man who leads a country struggling to pay for wheat imports, outsourcing even national propaganda to artificial intelligence might be the only affordable luxury left.
In his post, Sharif accused India of “annexing” Jammu and Kashmir on October 27, 1947, and claimed it marked the start of decades of “oppression” and the “denial of Kashmiri self-determination.” Pakistan observes “Kashmir Black Day” every October 27 to mark what it calls the anniversary of India’s “occupation.” The annual ritual has become a tired exercise in rewriting history that Pakistan refuses to abandon.
The truth, however, remains inconvenient for Islamabad. On October 27, 1947, Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar after Pakistan-backed Mujaheedeen stormed the Valley. The attack came after Maharaja Hari Singh had already signed the Instrument of Accession, formally joining Jammu and Kashmir to India. Pakistan’s first act toward Kashmir was not liberation but invasion.
X’s community notes, a crowdsourced fact-checking feature that does not care much for propaganda, swiftly attached a corrective under Sharif’s post. It reminded him that the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir had “legally acceded” to India on October 26, 1947, and that Indian troops entered Srinagar the next day to repel Pakistani infiltrators. It even included a Wikipedia link for the Pakistani Prime Minister to read up on real history.
The fact-check triggered a flood of mockery online. Users filled X with memes, historical documents, and sarcastic jabs. One user even quipped that they finally understood how Sharif managed to write such a long post “without any spelling and grammar mistakes” after discovering that “73% of it was generative AI content.”
Afghan political expert Qari Eisa Mohammadi did not hold back either. “Kashmir under India's administration today enjoys more security, progress, and a stronger economy. Pakistan itself is struggling with poverty, unemployment, and massive international debts... So what can it really offer to the people of Kashmir?” he wrote on X.
He went further, adding, “It would be better for Pakistan to solve its own internal problems before giving slogans about others. When a country has to borrow money just to feed its own people, its promises of ‘freedom and prosperity’ for others sound more like a joke than reality!”
For a government that spends more time lecturing others than fixing its collapsing economy, Sharif’s latest PR stunt turned into a digital disaster. Community Notes did what Pakistan’s opposition and media rarely can: hold its leader accountable in real time for peddling fiction as fact.
Historical records continue to expose Pakistan’s favorite myth. Documents from 1947 confirm that the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India was lawful and ratified by Governor-General Lord Mountbatten on October 27. The same day, Indian troops landed in Srinagar to push back Pakistan-backed tribal militias who had invaded through Muzaffarabad and Poonch. The Maharaja’s request for Indian help came only after his forces were overwhelmed by those armed intruders.
Sharif’s version of history also omits that while Pakistani militias looted and burned their way through Kashmir, pro-Pakistan officers were simultaneously helping Islamabad seize control of Gilgit-Baltistan in the north.
While the UN resolution of 1948 did call for a plebiscite, it never invalidated the accession. In fact, it reaffirmed that Pakistan first had to withdraw its invading forces, something it never did.
For Sharif, though, facts have always been secondary to rhetoric. This is not his first time being fact-checked on X, but the irony this time cut deeper. An AI-generated propaganda post was corrected by human fact-checkers and laughed off by a public that knows the difference between history and hallucination.
Sharif’s “Black Day” post was meant to reignite Pakistan’s anti-India rhetoric. Instead, it highlighted something far darker: how detached Pakistan’s leadership has become from both truth and reality.
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