PTI’s official account-led ‘imported hukumat’ hashtag has been trending onthe national and global trends panel for days, with an unprecedented volumeof 17 million tweets, including retweets.
While Khan’s supporters dominated the trends panel, anti-establishmenttrends also benefited from the high traffic on the platform.
Dr Khalid, who was reportedly accused of running the smear campaign, in hisstatement pointed to a “certain lobby” for the raid at his home. “Thistragedy happened because for the past few years I was wrongly framed by thethen opposition and a certain lobby for running malicious social mediacampaigns against political opponents, women journalists, and everythingunder the sun,” he said.
While he did not directly address the smear trends on Twitter in hisstatement, he urged the “PTI family” to protest the “draconian importedset-up” through peaceful means.
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“This includes using logic, data, and evidence in a respectful way tocounter the government abuse of power and propaganda,” he wrote.
