ISLAMABAD:
A joint inquiry team formed by the government on Wednesday detected a totalof 774 social media accounts responsible for a bulk of the misleadingclaims and smear campaign against the military, with many of them found tobe operating from India as well as from within the country.
The revelations were made during a session of the committee summoned byInterior Minister Rana Sanaullah for a briefing on the progress made in thecase so far. The Cyber Crimes Wing (CCW) of the Federal InvestigationAgency (FIA) also informed the ministry about the case’s proceedings.
Key officials including the secretary interior ministry, director generalFIA and other team members were also in attendance. The inquiry teaminformed that over 17 accounts were found to be operating from Indiawhereas 204 accounts out of 774 accounts were being handled by peopleinside Pakistan.
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Similarly, the team shared that around 90 people who were shortlistedduring the course of the investigations were being thoroughly probed.
