New Delhi:
The Indian authorities on Sunday blocked the X accounts of Pakistan Peoples Social gathering Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and former Pakistani Prime Minister and PTI founder Imran Khan.
The official X handles of each have been withheld following their anti-India and malicious content material relating to the present tense scenario.
India has already blocked the official X deal with of the Authorities of Pakistan and in addition the X account of the nation’s Defence Minister Khwaja Asif. The X account of Pakistan Info and Broadcasting Minister Attaullah Tarar was withheld in India, days after he had claimed that India was planning to hold out a army strike, citing “credible intelligence”.
The motion comes following the dastardly terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which killed 26 individuals and injured a number of others.
India has banned 16 Pakistani YouTube channels for spreading provocative and communally delicate content material, together with false and deceptive narratives focusing on India, its Military, and safety businesses.
The choice was taken by the Authorities of India primarily based on suggestions from the Ministry of House Affairs following the dastardly Pahalgam terror incident in Jammu and Kashmir.
The banned channels embody Daybreak Information, Irshad Bhatti, SAMAA TV, ARY NEWS, BOL NEWS, Raftar, The Pakistan Reference, Geo Information, Samaa Sports activities, GNN, Uzair Cricket, Umar Cheema Unique, Asma Shirazi, Muneeb Farooq, SUNO Information HD, and Razi Naama. These channels have been discovered to be disseminating disinformation associated to India’s nationwide safety, overseas relations, and public order.
Collectively, these YouTube channels had a cumulative viewership of a number of crores. They have been spreading false and unverified info geared toward creating panic, inciting communal disharmony, and disturbing public order inside India, in keeping with an official assertion.
Following the lethal assault, India has launched a robust diplomatic offensive and a sequence of sweeping retaliatory actions after Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed the assault a “cowardly assault on harmless civilians.”
The assault, orchestrated by Pakistan-based terror outfit The Resistance Entrance, has triggered a pointy escalation in tensions between the 2 nations. In response to the assault, the Cupboard Committee on Safety (CCS), led by Prime Minister Modi, introduced a number of stringent measures. These embody the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, closure of the Attari-Wagah border, cancellation of the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES) for Pakistani nationals, expulsion of Pakistan’s army attaches from New Delhi and a discount in diplomatic workers at each Excessive Commissions.
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