JIT submits initial inquiry report over anti Army campaign after lasbela helicopter crash

JIT submits initial inquiry report over anti Army campaign after lasbela helicopter crash

*ISLAMABAD: The joint inquiry committee has submitted an initial report onthe misuse of social media to malign the military officers who weremartyred in the Lasbela helicopter crash. *

According to details, the joint committee – including officials from theFederal Investigation Agency (FIA), Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), andthe Intelligence Bureau (IB) – have submitted an initial report to InteriorMinistry.

Sources told ARY News that the inquiry team has detected a total of 754social media accounts responsible for a bulk of the misleading claims andsmear campaign against the military.

The inquiry team claimed that over 17 accounts were found to be operatingfrom India whereas 204 accounts were being handled by people insidePakistan.

Sources further said that the team has identified six people while around84 people who were shortlisted during the course of the investigations werebeing thoroughly probed.

Meanwhile, data of 78 persons have been sent to National Database andRegistration Authority (NADRA) for verification.

The wreckage of an unfortunate Army helicopter that went missing during arelief and rescue operation in the flood-hit Balochistan area has beenfound in Musa Goth, Winder.

DG ISPR, Major General Babar Iftikhar confirmedlinkthenews that all the six officers and soldiers including Corps CommanderSouthern Command, Lt General Sarfraz Ali embraced martyrdom.