Islamabad :
The FIA’s crackdown on those involved in the campaign appears to be slowing down after a series of insulting organized campaigns against institutions, especially the military, on social networking sites, but the FIA claims that They do not have the ability to analyze complete data about such campaigns online.
According to media reports, in addition to ‘Imported Government Unacceptable’, 3 anti-military hashtags were among the top trends on Twitter in Pakistan yesterday. In such trends, the army and judiciary were targeted.
There were a few thousand tweets in the anti-military trends, while the trend of ‘Mistake Correction Elections’ reached 140,000 tweets and 300,000 tweets were made with the hashtag ‘Imported government disapproved’.
According to an official of PTI’s social media wing, which monitors such data, 591,000 tweets have been sent with this hashtag in the last seven days, however, since Imran Khan’s dismissal on April 10. With more than 20,000 tweets against the army and judiciary in the days of, a strong trend was seen on Twitter.
An official source said that the FIA’s prompt action against social media activists believed to be supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had slowed down after the malicious campaign against the army and judiciary subsided.
He said that anti-military and anti-judiciary hashtags on Twitter and other online sites have been declining for two main reasons, one is the intervention of PTI leadership and the other is the action of law enforcement agencies.
He said that raids on the homes of Dr Arsalan Khalid, Imran Khan’s focal person on digital media and some other social media workers of PTI helped in thwarting the campaign.
On April 10, a systematic campaign was launched by social media activists from home and abroad against the institutions, with most of the social media workers affiliated with PTI allegedly avoiding FIA action. Have gone into hiding for
PTI sources said that the campaign against institutions was becoming a top trend on social media so some senior party leaders had requested Imran Khan to send a clear message to party supporters not to target the army and judiciary. Create something that is not good for the party’s interests in the future.
He said that apparently following this advice, Imran Khan had a few days ago talked to about 500,000 users around the world through Spaces (a live audio feature on Twitter) and made it clear to his supporters that the army Don’t speak against it, it had a positive effect on them to some extent as pro-Army comments were also seen on social media platforms the next day.
In a week-long operation, the FIA arrested about 17 suspects in Punjab on charges of involvement in a campaign against the agencies that began after the removal of the former prime minister through a no-confidence motion.
Some were released after a brief interrogation, while others were not produced in court. Performed the operation.
Sources said that the FIA failed to arrest more than 30 suspects who were identified by the intelligence agencies who were involved in the systematic operation. Provided a list of 50 workers to be assisted.
Sources said that the FIA does not have the capability to analyze complete online data related to such a campaign.
He said the FIA usually pursues people who are carrying out such defamatory campaigns against the organization (on social media) but it has millions of social media posts for concrete action and future strategy. There is a lack of both technology and human resources for analysis.
The source added that the FIA usually asks the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to remove such defamatory posts and writes to Twitter and Facebook to close such accounts.
